About the Authors
Larry Correia is the New York Times best-selling and Dragon Award-winning author of the Monster Hunter International series, the Grimnoir Chronicles, the Saga of the Forgotten Warrior, the Dead Six thrillers with Mike Kupari, the Age of Ravens series with Steve Diamond, and the nonfiction In Defense of the Second Amendment. His story in this anthology, “Low Mountain,” is set on the same world as his Lost Planet Homicide series on Audible, in the same universe as the novel Gun Runner with John D. Brown. Before becoming an author, Larry was an accountant, a gun dealer, and a firearms instructor. He lives in Yard Moose Mountain, Utah, with his very patient wife and children.
Kacey Ezell is a retired helicopter pilot, having beaten the air into submission for 3000+ hours in the UH-1N Huey, Mi-171, and EC-130 helicopters, and is a full-time writer of science fiction, fantasy, noir, and alternate history fiction. She is a two-time Dragon Award Finalist for Best Alternate History and won the 2018 Year’s Best Military and Adventure Science Fiction Readers’ Choice Award. She has written multiple best-selling novels published with Chris Kennedy Publishing, Baen Books, and Blackstone Publishing. She is married with two daughters. You can find out more and join her mailing list at www.kaceyezell.net.
Griffin Barber spent his youth in four different countries, learning three languages, and burning all his bridges. Finally settled in Northern California and retired from a day job as a police officer in a major metropolitan department, he lives the good life with his lovely wife, crazy-smart daughter, tiny Bengal, and needy dog. 1636: Mission to the Mughals, co-authored with Eric Flint, was his first novel. 1637: The Peacock Throne is now available. He’s also collaborated with Kacey Ezell on a novel set in their Last Stop Station universe, titled Second Chance Angel. He’s also collaborated with Chuck Gannon, penning Man-Eater and Infiltration, novellas set in The Murphy’s Lawless annex of the Caine Riordan universe and subsequently made into the braided novels Murphy’s Lawless and Mission Critical. He has a number of short stories set in different universes coming out in 2024, including a short in John Ringo’s Black Tide Rising universe.
Robert Buettner’s “1957: The Dark Side of Paradise” is set within the universe of his upcoming alternate history novel 1957: Distant Lightning. Paradise follows his story “1957,” which appears in this anthology’s noir predecessor, No Game For Knights.
Robert was born on Manhattan Island, served as a Cold War Army Intelligence officer, and practiced law for over thirty years.
He was a Quill Award nominee for Best New Writer of 2005, and his debut novel, Orphanage, was a Quill nominee for Best SF/Fantasy/Horror novel of 2004, a national bestseller, and has been called a classic of modern military science fiction. The Orphan’s Legacy trilogy, which followed on to the five Orphanage books, was a national best-selling series in its own right. Orphanage and its seven follow-on novels have been compared favorably to the works of Robert Heinlein, and several have been translated and republished in Chinese, Czech, French, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish.
In addition to ten novels, Buettner’s short fiction, comprising two novellas and eleven short stories, has been published in various anthologies, some of which have been national bestsellers.
His nonfiction afterword appears in the 2009 republished anthology of Robert Heinlein’s works The Green Hills of Earth/The Menace From Earth.
He has also been a National Science Foundation Fellow in Paleontology, has prospected for minerals in Alaska and the Sonoran Desert, and was elected as an undergraduate to the academic history honorary Fraternity Phi Alpha Theta.
He is a certified underwater diver, has climbed and hiked the Rockies from Alberta to Colorado, and lives in Georgia with his family and more bicycles than a grown-up needs.
Visit him on the web at www.RobertBuettner.com.
Hinkley Correia has appeared in several short story anthologies, including Noir Fatale. Currently, she is working on a full-length novel set in the world of “Yokoburi.” In her limited free time, she greatly enjoys playing video games.
Steve Diamond is a horror, fantasy, and science fiction author for Baen, Wordfire Press, Gallant Knight Games, and numerous other small publications. His two most recent works are a collection of short fiction, What Hellhounds Dream, and a dark fantasy/horror novel cowritten with Larry Correia, Servants of War. He is also the co-host of the writing advice podcast The WriterDojo.
Laurell K. Hamilton is the author of the #1 New York Times best-selling Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series and the Merry Gentry, Fey Detective series. A Terrible Fall of Angels, the first novel in an exciting new series, features Detective Zaniel Havelock in a world where angels and demons walk among us.
With more than forty novels published, Laurell continues to create groundbreaking fiction inspired by her lifelong love of monster movies, ghost stories, mythology, folklore, and things that go bump in the night. Her love of the macabre, books in general, animals, and nature led her to degrees in English and biology. She is a nonpracticing biologist but uses her science to add an extra level of realism to her fiction.
She currently lives in St. Louis with her family, two spoiled Japanese chins, a house panther, and a house Lion. In her free time, Laurell trains in Filipino martial arts with a specialization in blade work, and travels to scuba dive and bird watch as often as she can.
Dr. Robert E. Hampson is a neuroscientist and author. By day, he is a professor at Wake Forest School of Medicine, studying how our brains encode memory. By night, he writes military, adventure and hard science fiction as well as nonfiction articles explaining science to the general public.
Robert Hampson’s 2023 breakout novel The Moon and the Desert builds on his scientific background to update the 1970s classic TV program The Six Million Dollar Man. His SF writing career began with “They Also Serve,” a short story in Riding the Red Horse, published in 2015. That story became the foundation of his first solo novel The Human Side in 2020. He has three collaborative novels with Sandra Medlock, Chris Kennedy and Casey Moores in the Wrogul’s Oath arc of the popular Four Horsemen universe, has coedited two anthologies, and published more than twenty-five works of short fiction (some written as “Tedd Roberts”). He is also a regular contributor of nonfiction articles for science fiction readers, with more than fifteen articles published.
Dr. Hampson’s forty-year scientific career has ranged from studying the effects of commonly abused drugs on memory, to the effects of space radiation on the brain. His current work as lead scientist for Braingrade, Inc. is developing a medical device to restore human memory function damaged by injury or disease. He is also a professor of physiology/pharmacology and neurology at Wake Forest School of Medicine; a scientific journal editor; a reviewer for dozens of journals and research agencies; has been interviewed on his research by newspapers, radio and TV; and is a consultant to TV and game producers, defense contractors, and authors. He has published more than 175 peer-reviewed scientific articles.
Robert E. Hampson is available as a consultant through SIGMA, the Science Fiction Think Tank and the Science and Entertainment Exchange (a service of the National Academy of Sciences). His website is http://REHampson.com.
A Webster Award winner and three-time Dragon Award finalist, Chris Kennedy is a science fiction/fantasy author, speaker, and small-press publisher who has written over fifty books and published more than five hundred others. Get his free book, Shattered Crucible, at his website, https://chriskennedypublishing.com.
Called “fantastic” and “a great speaker,” he has coached hundreds of beginning authors and budding novelists on how to self-publish their stories at a variety of conferences, conventions, and writing guild presentations. He is the author of the award-winning #1 bestseller Self-Publishing for Profit: How to Get Your Book Out of Your Head and Into the Stores.
Chris lives in Coinjock, North Carolina, with his wife, and is the holder of a doctorate in educational leadership and master’s degrees in both business and public administration. Follow Chris on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ckpublishing/.
Mike Massa has done a lot of traveling in uniform (Navy 1130) and out (banking, consulting). He’s visited ninety countries and lived in several big cities for protracted intervals, including Beijing, Buenos Aires, London, Los Angeles, New York, and Washington D.C. Big cities have a certain flavor and energy, especially at night. Down These Mean Streets has been a fun opportunity for him to return to the idea of cities as actual characters in a story. In the meantime, Mike will keep writing science fiction, military science fiction, fantasy and postapocalyptic fiction, in addition to nonfiction articles for publication. You can find his books and short stories at your favorite booksellers and online. Besides his writing, Mike works for an award-winning research university, integrating machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies into practical applications for cyber defense. Or, you know, Skynet. Whichever comes first.
Casey Moores was a USAF rescue/special ops C-130 pilot for over seventeen years, airdropping, air refueling, and flying into tiny blacked-out dirt airstrips in bad places using night vision goggles.
He’s been to those places and done those things with those people. Now he lives a quieter life, translating those experiences to military science fiction, fantasy, alternate history, and postapocalyptic fiction. With seven novels and over twenty published short stories, his biggest challenge is focusing on any one genre. Or focusing on anything at all, really.
Casey is the winner of the Imaginarium Imadjinn Awards Best Historical Fiction for Witch Hunt, a story about monster-hunting marines in the Civil War from Three Ravens Publishing’s JTF-13 series. A prequel story was published in the Helicon Award-winning JTF-13 Legends anthology. For Chris Kennedy Publishing, he has written in the Four Horsemen universe with numerous novels and short stories, primarily about Bull and his black ops rescue company. He also has a novel, The Guilted Cage, set in the Fallen World universe at his alma mater, the United States Air Force Academy, as well as short stories in the Fallen World and Salvage System universes. Finally, he has numerous stories out in his Deathmage War fantasy series, two of which, “A Quaint Pastime” and “The Unwanted Legion,” were finalists in the annual FantaSci fantasy story contest.
He has recently begun a near-future military science fiction series with Bill Fawcett.
A Colorado native and Air Force Academy graduate, he is now semiretired in New Mexico. Find him at www.caseymoores.net.
Many leading scientists believe that Patrick M. Tracy does not exist. Even those who were reasonably sure that he once lived are now of the opinion that he went extinct years ago. “Where is the proof?” is the frequent refrain. Despite records showing that he pays property taxes in Salt Lake City, has been levied with incredibly expensive parking fines, and seems to be on the employment rolls for the local public library, the truth of his existence is still in question. This shadowy and possibly fictional figure is said to be a published poet and fiction writer. His writing (or the work of whatever dark cabal keeps up his façade) can be found in Fantastic Hope, Noir Fatale, and Sakura: Intellectual Property, among other places. More information (of questionable veracity) can be found at his website: pmtracy.com.
Dan Willis was born in Washington D.C. and grew up in rural Maryland. He’s worked as a computer programmer, technical writer, game designer, software tester, web designer, and even insurance salesman.
An avid reader from an early age, Dan got his first professional writing opportunity from Wizards of the Coast, writing four books for their iconic Dragonlance series.
Dan is currently writing as an Indie author and working his long-running Arcane Casebook series. These stories follow runewright detective Alex Lockerby who uses his minor magic to solve crimes, finding evidence that’s beyond the regular police. The series is currently up to nine books with more on the way.
Dan lives in Utah with his wife and four children.
Marisa Wolf is a second-generation nerd who started writing genre stories at six. At least one was good enough to be laminated, and she’s been chasing that high ever since. Over the years she majored in English to get credits for reading, taught middle school, was headbutted by an alligator, built a career in education, earned a black belt in Tae Kwon Do, and finally decided to finish all those half-started stories in her head.
She’s currently based in Texas, but as she lives in an RV with her husband and their two absurd rescue dogs, it’s anyone’s guess where in the country she is at any given moment. Learn more at www.marisawolf.net.