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| ABOUT OUR CONTRIBUTORS... |
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N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z A Neal Asher - lives in Essex. His books include novella The Parasite (Tanjen), and collection Runcible Tales (Piper's Ash). Some of his short stories are published in The ZONE and Premonitions. Read our reviews of Neal's SF novels, and an interview with him on The ZONE site. Visit the author's website. B Gary Bayley - contributed several articles and many reviews to our fantastic media magazine, Strange Adventures. He works for a civilian engineering firm near Birmingham, and has no plans to visit Belgium, again. When we last heard from him, Gary was still writing his first novel... he says it is definitely not about Belgium. Paul Broome - was editor of The Small Hours magazine. Recently relocated to Fife, Scotland. Currently trashing networks by day, and making music with his "nu-folk" project Bona Dea by night. Cathy Buburuz - is a Canadian horror writer who also edits Champagne Shivers, Expressions, and the new Potter's Field anthology. Visit her Champagne on Ice website. C Gary Couzens - has reviews and articles in magazines The Third Alternative, Zene, and online at Movies on Dowse and DVD Times, also much short fiction published, including the collection Second Contact (Elastic Press). Gary is a regular contributor to VideoVista monthly webzine, and The ZONE site. He was a recent Chairman of the British Fantasy Society. D Andrew Darlington - poet, writer, journalist... the multi-talented Andy Darlington has had fiction and poetry in Pigasus Press' magazines Premonitions, Fax 21, and The ZONE. His acclaimed poetry collection Euroshima Mon Amour is available from Hilltop Press, there's a collection of rock interviews called I Was Elvis Presley's Bastard Love Child out from Headpress books, and Andy's science fantasy novel Beast Of The Coming Darkness is forthcoming. E Kerry Earl - extremely talented artist who owns a comics shop in Chatham (see his website), Kerry has produced many illustrations for Fax 21, and recently created new logos for our websites, in addition to contributing artwork to Pigasus Press' magazines. F Barry Forshaw - edits Crime Time magazine and writes about books for Publishing News, Amazon, The Good Book Guide, The Independent and The Express. Films, however, are as close to his heart as any work of literature. Barry contributes reviews to VideoVista monthly webzine. G Christopher Geary - reviews movies for VideoVista, and books for The ZONE. Chris is editor of Fax 21 website. He has an article published in Free For All, official magazine of The Prisoner Appreciation Society, 'Six of One'. H Steven Hampton - contributes regular critical articles and reviews to various SF magazines, including The ZONE website. He also writes for VideoVista. Patrick Hudson - was brought up in New Zealand, but currently lives and works in London. He has published a number of articles and short stories in various venues both here and in New Zealand, and is the author of Bridges of New Zealand (before you ask, it has nothing to do with The Bridges of Madison County). In addition to his entusiasm for SF and fantasy, he is a keen gamer, a museum fan, and a lover of art and music of all sorts. Patrick is a contributor to The ZONE. I J K L Duncan Lawie - has contributed several interviews and many reviews to The ZONE magazine, and website, and is a regular reviewer of science fiction for Slashdot. Born in Papua New Guinea, Duncan grew up in Australia and has travelled to America and Antarctica - but lives in Middlesex. M Michael McCarty - has done several author interviews (inluding Ray Bradbury, Frederik Pohl, Dean Koontz) for issues of The ZONE magazine, and contributes to our genre website. Mike lives on Rock Island, Illinois. Debbie Moon - after some years writing fiction under the pen-name Ceri Jordan, Debbie moved into screenwriting, and currently has two feature scripts in development. As befits someone who's been writing SF and fantasy since the age of seven, and cites Brazil as the best film ever made, they're both pretty weird. She is also working on a TV comedy drama, and her debut novel Falling is available from Honno. N O P John M. Peters - was editor and publisher of Flickers 'n' Frames small press magazine for ten years. He is now the owner of The Borderland music website. John contributed articles and reviews to our Strange Adventures fanzine, and has done reviews for VideoVista webzine. Q R Octavio Ramos Jr - has been a technical writer/editor at the Los Alamos National Laboratory for close to 15 years. As a freelance writer, he has published several nonfiction books: Cerro Grande: Canyons of Fire, Spirit Of Community, and Raising Cane: Introductory Techniques, the latter of which can be obtained at Rainbow's End), SF adventure Scout (Renaissance E-books, $6), short story collection Smoke Signals, and a chapbook Folio Of Edicts, which can be obtained from Undaunted Press. He also has accumulated more than 200 publication credits in magazines, such as VideoVista, Blood Samples, Vampire Nights, SOD Magazine, Pit Magazine, The Midnight Gallery, Glyph, Whispers From The Shattered Forum, Double Danger Tales, Sepulchre, Bizarre Bazaar, Weird Times, Imelod, The Police Marksman, Sheriff Times, Martial Arts Training, and Inside Karate/Kung Fu. Mark Roberts - writer and artist with work published by magazines Albedo 1, The Third Alternative, Crimewave, and The New York Review of SF. He works as creative director of Chimeric media consultants specialising in bringing together traditional and digital design and illustration. Mark contributed the animated flying pig to this website. S Peter Schilling - contributed nonfiction to The ZONE magazine, and is a regular reviewer for our websites, including VideoVista. David Sivier - wrote a series of special features on genre comics published in The ZONE magazine, and he has contributed articles to our genre website. David lives in Bristol. Steve Sneyd - prolific writer and poet, whose work has appeared in over 1,000 magazines and anthologies worldwide, also online and in many collections, including substantial volumes Bad News From The Stars (Ocean View, 1991), In Coils Of Earthen Hold (University of Salzburg Press, 1993), and Gestaltmacher Gestaltmacher Make Me A Gestalt (Four Quarters, 2000), and more recently with John Light in Neolithon (KT, 2001), and with John F. Haines and J.C. Hartley in Pennine Triangle (Othername, 2002). Sneyd's 1200-line science fictional verse treatment of the grail story, Of A Care In What You Wish For appeared in the recent anthology Grail (Atlantean, 2004). Some of his collections, along with Hilltop Press publications, can be ordered from BBR Catalogue. Sneyd's many readings have included the Swansea National Year of Literature, the Huddersfield, Lancaster, Lincolnshire and Newham Libraries Poetry Festivals, West Yorkshire Playhouse, and the Iconoclasm and Mexicon III SF conventions. Broadcasts of his poetry have included Radio 4's Stanza on Stage Space Poetry special, and, as well as the UK, in the USA and Russia. His poetry has appeared in translation in Italian, Polish, and Romanian. A six-times nominee for the Rhysling SF poetry award, he won the Peterson Trophy for poetry in 1996. His genre fiction appeared in American anthologies The Year's Best Horror VIII and XIV, while his published nonfiction embraces many aspects of the genre poem, including interviews on the subject with New Wave figures like Michael Moorcock - Sneyd's comprehensive overview of poetry in New Worlds has recently appeared in Vector as part of their commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the start of Moorcock's editorship of the magazine - and Roger Zelazny, an extended history of science fiction poetry, Seventh Heaven And How They Got There in six instalments in The ZONE, an overview of poetry by Hawkwind's Robert Calvert (now archived at Aural Innovations), an analysis of Edwin Morgan's SF poetry delivered as a paper at the 2001: A Celebration of British SF University of Liverpool conference, and the first biography of pioneering American science fiction poet Lilith Lorraine, in Fantasy Commentator (an expanded version in book form is pending, from Cosmos in USA). He also edited the anthology Dreamers On The Sea Of Fate: British SF Poetry 1930-1990 (Sol), while his Hilltop Press, founded 1966, publishes collections of genre poetry and, since 1991, the newsletter Data Dump covering developments in the field. He has been a member of the Science Fiction Poetry Association since its inception in 1977. Other nonfiction writings have included a pioneering book on the graphic poem, A Word In Your Eye, numerous articles on Arthurian topics in Pendragon and elsewhere, and on dragons, murderous masons, corpse traverse stones, barrow mound castles, and many other aspects of legend and folktale, as well as writings on SF and horror film, etc. A chemistry BSc. and MA in poetry (University of Huddersfield, 1999), he became a creative writing tutor in 1989 after many years as a newspaper and agency copywriter. He has lived in Almondbury near Huddersfield since 1966. See article - An Introduction To SF poetry, and various reviews for The ZONE website. T U V W X Y Jeff Young - enjoys "trashy exploitation movies" (especially kung fu and low-budget action thrillers), and is a regular contributor to VideoVista. Jeff also compiles biographical listings for the Girls with Guns fan-site about female action movie stars. Z |
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