Diana Pho - Steampunk World

Rochita Loenen-Ruizis an essayist, a fictionist and a poet. A Filipino writer, now living in the Netherlands, she attended Clarion West in 2009 and was a recipient of the Octavia Butler scholarship. In 2013, her short fiction was shortlisted for the BSFA short fiction award. Most recently, her fiction has appeared in We See a Different Frontier, Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond, What Fates Impose, The End of the Road anthology, and as part of Redmond Radio’s Afrofuturism Event for the Amsterdam Museumnacht at FOAM museum. She also has upcoming work in Clarkesworld Magazine .

Nayad A. Monroeis an editor and short-story writer. She read over 5,000 submissions for the Hugo Award-winning semiprozine, Clarkesworld Magazine, before she became an editor with her anthology of divination stories, What Fates Impose . Several of her short stories have been published in various anthologies, such as Space Grunts: Full-Throttle Space Tales #3; Space Tramps: Full-Throttle Space Tales #5; The Crimson Pact: Volume Two ; and Sidekicks! . Her sidekick story, "Quintuple-A," is scheduled to be made into a short film by Wild Hawk Entertainment. Nayad has also contributed an interview with Tim Powers to Writers Workshop of Science Fiction and Fantasy. You can find her making odd remarks on Twitter as @Nayad.

Balogun Ojetadeis author the Steamfunk novel Moses: The Chronicles of Harriet Tubman , the Sword and Soul novel Once Upon A Time in Afrika and the Urban Fantasy novel Redeemer . He is contributing co-editor of the anthologies, Steamfunk and Ki-Khanga: The Anthology . Finally, he is screenwriter and director of the action film, A Single Link and the Steamfunk film Rite of Passage .

Diana M. Pho(Ay-leen the Peacemaker) is a scholar, activist, blogger, and general rabble-rouser. She earned her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and her M.A. from New York University. Awards given for her work include the Steampunk Chronicle Reader's Choice Awards for "Best Politically-Minded Steampunk" and "Best Multicultural Steampunk" in 2012 and 2013 as well as "Best Blog" and "Best Feminist Steampunk" in 2012; the SteamCon Airship Award for "Community Contributor" in 2013; the Last Drink Bird Head Award for "Gentle Advocacy" in 2010. About her work, New York Times bestselling author of the Leviathan trilogy, Scott Westerfeld has said, "I always point to her to rebut the genre’s haters." Diana currently lives and works in New York City for Tor Books & blogs for Tor.com. You can follow her academic work on Academia.edu.

Nisi Shawl’s collection Filter House was a 2009 James Tiptree, Jr., Award winner; her stories have been published at Strange Horizons , in Asimov’s SF Magazine , and in anthologies including The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror . She was the 2011 Guest of Honor at the feminist SF convention WisCon and 2014 co-Guest of Honor for the Science Fiction Research Association. She co-authored the renowned Writing the Other: A Practical Approach with Cynthia Ward. Shawl’s Belgian Congo steampunk novel Everfair is forthcoming in 2015 from Tor Books.

Lucy A. Snyderis the Bram Stoker Award-winning author of the novels Spellbent, Shotgun Sorceress, Switchblade Goddess , and the collections Orchid Carousals, Sparks and Shadows, Chimeric Machines , and Installing Linux on a Dead Badger . She will have two new books out in 2014: Shooting Yourself in the Head For Fun and Profit: A Writer's Guide will be released by Post Mortem Press, and her story collection Soft Apocalypses will be released by Raw Dog Screaming Press. Her writing has been translated into French, Russian, and Japanese editions and has appeared in publications such as What Fates Impose , Strange Horizons, Weird Tales, Hellbound Hearts, Dark Faith, Chiaroscuro, GUD , and Best Horror of the Year, Vol. 5 .

Lucien Moussa Shukri Soulbanis an author from Montreal, Canada. He was born in Saudi Arabia, but grew up in Houston, Texas. He has lived in Montreal for 16 years. Lucien Soulban is his real name. As well as numerous credits, both role-playing and fiction, with White Wolf, he has written for Dream Pod 9, AEG, WizKids and Guardians of Order, and has also worked on video games with Relic and Artificial Mind and Movement, among others.

Benjanun Sriduangkaewenjoys writing love letters to cities real and speculative, and lots of space opera when she can get away with it. Her works can be found in Clarkesworld , Beneath Ceaseless Skies , The Dark , GigaNotoSaurus , The Mammoth Book of Steampunk Adventures , Upgraded , and Solaris Rising 3 . They are also reprinted in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Vol. 8 , The Year's Best Science and Fantasy 2014 and The Mammoth Book of SF Stories by Women . Her novella Scale-Bright is forthcoming from Immersion Press.

Tade Thompson’s roots are in Western Nigeria and South London. His short stories have been published in small press, webzines and anthologies. Most recently, his story "Notes from Gethsemane appeared in The Afro SF Anthology , and "Shadow" appeared in The Apex Book of World SF 2 , and "120 Days of Sunlight" appeared in Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond . He lives and works in South England. He creates under a unified influence field comprised of books, music, theatre, comics, art, movies, gourmet coffee, and amala. He has been known to haunt coffee shops, jazz bars, bookshops, and libraries. He is an occasional visual artist and tortures his family with his attempts to play the guitar.

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Life is uncertain. The chance to peek into the future is tempting. But is it a good idea to look?

Edited by Nayad Monroe, this anthology brings together stories from a diverse group of speculative fiction writers who provide insight into the possibilities.

The book includes cover artwork by Steven C. Gilberts, and an introduction by Alasdair Stuart. Featuring new stories from Maurice Braoddus, Jennifer Brozek, Keffy Kehrli, Jamie Lackey, Cat Rambo, Ken Scholes, Lucy A Snyder, Ferrett Steinmetz, Tim Waggoner, Damien Walters, Sarah Hans, Erika Holt, Rochita Loenen-Ruiz, Remy Nakamura, LaShawn Wanak, Andrew Penn Romine, Wendy Wagner, Eric James Stone, and Beth Wodzinski.