Our Authors

Jack Williamson was born in Arizona Territory in 1908. He moved to New Mexico by covered wagon in 1915, and still lives there. A retired professor of English at Eastern New Mexico University in Portales, he still teaches a course there every spring semester. He has been publishing science fiction since 1929, with an output of 55 novels and many shorter works. His new novel, The Stonehenge Gate, is out this year. One section of it, “The Ultimate Earth,” won the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He has published H. G. Wells: Critic of Progress, an academic study of Wells’ early science fiction.

Connie Willis has won six Nebula and six Hugo Awards (more than any other science fiction writer) and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for her first novel, Lincoln’s Dreams. Her novel Doomsday Book won both the Nebula and Hugo Awards, and her first short-story collection, Fire Watch, was a New York Times Notable Book. Connie was born on December 31, 1945, in Denver. She married physicist Courtney Willis in 1967 and has one daughter, Cordelia. They live in Greeley, Colo.

Maralys Wills’s fifteen published books span several genres and publishers. Her fiction works include four romance novels published by Harlequin and Silhouette and a techno-thriller Scatterpath about airplane sabotage. Among her ten nonfictions are two books on writing: Damn the Rejections, Full Speed Ahead won its category in Best Books (Stephens Press); a treatise on addiction (Hazelden); and four memoirs (Longstreet Press, Stephens Press). Three of Wills’s volumes have won national awards. For 30 years Wills has been teaching novel-writing and memoir-writing, and in 2000 was named Teacher of the Year. With her lawyer-husband, Rob, she raised six children, five boys and a girl.

Robert Charles Wilson’s works include the Hugo Award nominees Darwinia and Blind Lake. His The Chronoliths received the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, and he has also won the Philip K. Dick Award and Canada’s Aurora Award; several of his novels have been New York Times Notable Books. His latest novel is Spin, in which the Earth itself is projected four billion years into the future.

Professor Paul Wilson is a criminologist and forensic psychologist at Bond University, Gold Coast, Australia. He is the author or co-author of over thirty books dealing with crime, forensics, and justice issues. Paul gives evidence in court, works on miscarriages of justice cases, and recently was appointed on the expert witness list to the International Criminal Court based in The Hague. His recent writings focus on wrongful convictions and persons involved in genocide.