Myriad Universes 02_ Echoes and Refractions - Keith R. A. DeCandido [211]
As time passed, Geoff found additional creative outlets, such as playing in a big-hair rock band and performing with the local civic theater, but in time he settled into a more respectable career path in computer networking. Through the miracle of self-publishing on the Internet, Geoff found a new outlet via the written word, and spent long hours probing into the more philosophical areas of religion, theology, and politics-partly because of the potential for self-actualization, but mostly because it was fun to watch the heads of the closed-minded routinely explode.
Throughout it all, he never lost his love for Star Trek (though Voyager would often strain the relationship), and eventually his online connections led him to join the “Timeliners,” who researched and compiled the novel chronology for Jeff Ayres’s Voyages of Imagination. Geoff followed that up with his short story “Suicide Note” in The Sky’s the Limit. The Chimes at Midnight is his first published novel.
When he isn’t writing, he is usually either working his day job at the public library, researching the family genealogy, running chaotically around Elkhart, Indiana, with his wife and three children, or angrily throwing objects at the television during a Notre Dame football game. His latest exploits are irregularly chronicled at http://troll-bridge.livejournal.com.
A Gutted World is KEITH R.A. DECANDIDO’s fifteenth Star Trek novel, in addition to seven short stories, eleven eBooks, one novella, and ten comic books. His recent and upcoming work includes the Klingon Empire novel A Burning House; the eBook Enterprises of Great Pitch and Moment, the concluding chapter in the six-part Star Trek: The Next Generation anniversary miniseries Slings and Arrows; the short story “Family Matters” in the Mirror Universe anthology Shards and Shadows; the Alien Spotlight comic book Klingons: Four Thousand Throats…; the TNG comic book miniseries Redshirts; and a novella in the 2009 anthology Seven Deadly Sins. Keith has written in dozens of other universes as well, ranging from television (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, CSI: NY, Supernatural) to movies (Serenity, Resident Evil) to videogames (World of Warcraft, Command and Conquer, Starcraft) to comic books (SpiderMan, the X-Men) to his own fantasy universe (the novel Dragon Precinct and several short stories). Find out less about Keith at his website, www.DeCandido.net, or read his inane ramblings at kradical.livejournal.com.
CHRIS ROBERSON’s novels include Here, There & Everywhere, The Voyage of Night Shining White, Paragaea: A Planetary Romance, X-Men: The Return, Set the Seas on Fire, The Dragon’s Nine Sons, and the forthcoming End of the Century, Iron Jaw and Hummingbird, and Three Unbroken. His short stories have appeared in such magazines as Asimov’s, Interzone, Postscripts, and Subterranean, and in anthologies such as Live Without a Net, FutureShocks, and Forbidden Planets. Along with his business partner and spouse Allison Baker, he is the publisher of MonkeyBrain Books, an independent publishing house specializing in genre fiction and nonfiction genre studies, and he is the editor of the anthology Adventure Vol. 1. He has been a finalist for the World Fantasy Award three times-once each for writing, publishing, and editing-twice a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and twice for the Sidewise Award for Best Alternate History Short Form (winning in 2004 with his story “O One”). Chris and Allison live in Austin, Texas, with their daughter, Georgia. Visit him online at www.chrisroberson.net.
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