Jim Baen's Universe

Authors | Jay Lake and Ruth Nestvold

Jay Lake lives in Portland, Oregon with his books and two inept cats, where he works on numerous writing and editing projects, including the World Fantasy Award-nominated _Polyphony_ anthology series from Wheatland Press. Current projects include _Rocket Science_ and _TEL : Stories_. His next novel, _Trial of Flowers_, will be available fall, 2006 from Night Shade Books, while _Mainspring_ will be released summer, 2007 from Tor. Jay is the winner of the 2004 John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and a multiple nominee for the Hugo and World Fantasy Awards. Visit Web Site at: http://www.jlake.com/ or http://jaylake.livejournal.com/

Ruth Nestvold has a Web Page at: http://www.ruthnestvold.com/about.htm

A former assistant English professor in the picturesque town of Freiburg on the edge of the Black Forest, Ruth Nestvold has given up theory for imagination. The university career has been replaced by a small software localization business, and the Black Forest by the parrots of Bad Cannstatt. She lives with her fantasy and her family and her books in a house with a turret and has sold stories to numerous markets, including Asimov's, Realms of Fantasy, Strange Horizons, Scifiction, Gardner Dozois's Year's Best Science Fiction, and the anthology Realms of Wonder. Her xenolinguistics novella "Looking Through Lace" made the short list for the Tiptree award in 2003 and was nominated for the Sturgeon award. On occasion, she maintains a web site at www.ruthnestvold.com. Publications: "Latency Time," Asimov's, July 2001."Princes and Priscilla," Strange Horizons, April 8, 2002. (http://www.strangehorizons.com/2002/20020408/princes.shtml)"A Serca Tale," NFG, Jan. 2003."Looking Through Lace," Asimov's, Sept. 2003.-- Shortlisted for the Tiptree award and included in the first annual Tiptree award anthology.-- Nominated for the Sturgeon Award for the best short fiction of 2003."Wooing Ai Kyarem," Andromeda Spaceways, Dec. 2003."Shadow Memory," Marsdust, April 2004."The Tiresias Project," Futurismic, July 2004. (http://futurismic.com/fiction/tiresias.html)"King Orfeigh," Realms of Fantasy, Oct. 2004"Rainmakers," Asimov's, June 2005"Happily Ever Awhile," Strange Horizons, June 20, 2005. (http://www.strangehorizons.com/2005/20050620/happily-f.shtml)"Rivers of Eden," (with Jay Lake) Futurismic, July 2005. (http://futurismic.com/fiction/rivers.html)"Dragon Time," Fantastic Companions, Julie Czerneda, ed., 2005"Revenge in the Funhouse," TEL : Stories, Jay Lake, ed. 2005."A Debt to Collect," Northwest Passages anthology, 2005"Visiting Bad Town," (with Jay Lake) Ion Trails, August 3005"The Canadian Who Came Almost All the Way Home From the Stars," (with Jay Lake) Scifiction, Sept. 29, 2005. (http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/)-- To be included in Gardner Dozois's Year's Best Science Fiction for 2005."Scraps of Eutopia," Nine Muses, Deb Layne and Forrest Aguirre, eds., 2005."The Other Side of Silence," Futurismic, Jan. 2006. http://www.futurismic.com/fiction/other.html"Return to Nowhere," (with Jay Lake) Jigsaw Nation anthology (forthcoming)"Feather and Ring," Asimov's (forthcoming)"Blink," Albedo One (forthcoming)"The Old Man and the Sneakers," Farthing (forthcoming)"Schwarze Madonna and the Sandalwood Knight," (with Jay Lake) Realms of Fantasy (forthcoming)"Sailing to Utopia," Flytrap (forthcoming)"Incipit" (with Jay Lake) The New Book of Masks, Forrest Aguirre, ed. (forthcoming)"The Big Ice" (with Jay Lake) Baen's Universe (forthcoming) "Exit Without Saving" Futurismic (forthcoming) I'll also be having a collection of connected short stories written with Jay Lake and tentatively entitled "The Book of Roses" coming out from Wheatland Press sometime next year.