Ekaterina Sedia - Running with the Pack

SUSAN PALWICKis an Associate Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, where she teaches literature and writing. She has published three novels, all with Tor, and a story collection with Tachyon Publications. She is currently working on a mainstream novel under contract with Tor. Susan’s writing has been honored with the Crawford Award from the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts, with an Alex Award from the American Library Association, and with a Silver Pen Award from the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. She has also been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award and the Mythopoeic Award.

MIKE RESNICKis, according to Locus , the all-time leading award winner, living or dead, for short science fiction. He has won five Hugos, a Nebula, and other major awards in the USA, France, Spain, Poland, Croatia, and Japan, and has been short-listed in England, Italy and Australia. He is the author of sixty-one novels, over 250 short stories, and two screenplays, and has edited more than forty anthologies. His work has been translated into twenty-three languages. In his spare time, he sleeps.

LAWRENCE SCHIMELhas published over one hundred books as author or anthologist, including The Drag Queen of Elfland (Circlet), The Future is Queer (Arsenal Pulp), Things Invisible to See: Lesbian and Gay Tales of Magic Realism (Circlet), Two Boys in Love (Seventh Window), and Fairy Tales for Writers (A Midsummer Night’s Press). He has twice won the Lambda Literary Award, for First Person Queer (Arsenal Pulp) and PoMoSexuals (Cleis), and has also won the Spectrum, the Independent Publisher Book Award, the Rhysling, and other awards. He lives in Madrid, Spain, where he works as a Spanish-to-English translator.

MARIA V. SNYDERswitched careers from meteorologist to novelist when she began writing the New York Times best-selling Study Series ( Poison Study, Magic Study and Fire Study ) about a young woman who becomes a poison taster. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Maria dreamed of chasing tornados, but lacked the skills to forecast their location. Writing, however, lets Maria control the weather. Her new Glass Series ( Storm Glass, Sea Glass , and Spy Glass ) combines two out of the three things Maria loves: the weather and glass. The third is dogs. Readers are invited to read more of Maria’s short stories on her web site at www.MariaVSnyder.com.

MOLLY TANZERis the assistant editor of Fantasy Magazine. Her interview with Garth Nix appeared on the Fantasy Magazine site, and her nonfiction article “On Books and Animals” appeared in Herbivore Magazine . You are always welcome to visit her at www.mollytanzer.com. She knits, but never with wool.

GENEVIEVE VALENTINE’s fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in Clarkesworld Magazine, Strange Horizons, Fantasy Magazine , and in anthologies Federations, The Living Dead II , and Teeth. Her first novel, about a mechanical circus troupe, is coming in 2011 from Prime. She has an insatiable appetite for bad movies, a tragedy she tracks on her blog at www.genevievevalentine.com.

CARRIE VAUGHNis the bestselling author of a series of novels about a werewolf named Kitty who hosts a talk radio advice show for the supernaturally disadvantaged. The seventh installment, Kitty’s House of Horrors , was released in 2010. T.J. in “Wild Ride” is a character from the series. Carrie’s first young adult novel, Voices of Dragons , is also due to be released in 2010. An Air Force brat, she grew up all over the U.S. but has managed to put down roots in Boulder, Colorado. Please visit her at www.carrievaughn.com for more information.

ERZEBET YELLOWBOYis the editor of Cabinet des Fées , a journal of fairy tale fiction, and the founder of Papaveria Press, a private press specializing in handbound limited editions of mythic poetry and prose. Her stories and poems have appeared in Fantasy Magazine, Jabberwocky, Goblin Fruit, Mythic Delirium, Electric Velocipede and others. Her second novel, Sleeping Helena , is scheduled for release in 2010. Visit her web site at www.erzebet.com.

Ekaterina Sedia resides in the Pinelands of New Jersey. Her critically-acclaimed novels, The Secret History of Moscow and The Alchemy of Stone , were published by Prime Books. Her short stories have sold to Analog, Baen's Universe, Dark Wisdom and Clarkesworld , as well as the Japanese Dreams and Magic in the Mirrorstone anthologies. She won a World Fantasy Award in 2009, for Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy .

The Alchemy of Stone

Bewere the Night (edited; forthcoming)

The House of Discarded Dreams (forthcoming)

Paper Cities: An Anthology of Urban Fantasy (edited)

The Secret History of Moscow

Including the websites Wolfpelt, Lunar Eclipse, and Sisterhood of the Silver Bullets.

Briggs 2005: http://www.patriciabriggs.com/books/silver/silverbullets.shtml.

Thirty rounds were produced in total; twelve were eliminated due to poor quality, which would have increased the risk of gun malfunction in the field and therefore biased the data. This production issue, however, must be considered relevant to the larger question of efficacy. (For ballistics information on this ammunition, see the appendix.)

For a full account of each subject’s background, involvement in the anti-lycanthrope community, and predatory efforts, see the author’s monograph Under the Full Moon: An Urban Safari Into the Biology of Lycanthropes, in preparation.

While it may lie beyond the scope of this study to make tactical evaluations of lycanthrope-hunting techniques, the investigator believes it is generally more advisable to aim for the center mass, for reasons illustrated by Hunter A’s results.

Initially this subject was disqualified from the trial on the basis of evidence that he was merely seeking revenge against the non-lycanthropic leader of a rival gang. The alternative candidate for the fourth trial, however, revoked her permission and abandoned her hunt at the same time that new evidence came to light, supporting Hunter D’s claim regarding his target. (It is regrettable that this new evidence took the form of an entire gang of lycanthropes.)

This analysis is based on slow-motion playback of the video recording. The investigator failed to directly observe anything of value either during the confrontation or after, as safety considerations required immediate departure from the trial location.

The investigator indicated to Hunter F that the trial would be biased if multiple subjects were directly involved. He responded in language unsuited to an academic journal.

Some lycanthropes observed in this study appear to have possessed opposable thumbs, but in other cases this trait is uncertain at best. There may be variation in the wild.

According to a report from Assistant F6; unverified by the investigator.

One of many common names for the genus. Others include monkshood, aconite, blue rocket, and women’s bane. No antipathetic qualities have been observed in human females—beyond the naturally-occurring cardiac poison, which is equally effective against human males.