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271 Contributors Andrew M. Butler is the former features editor of Vector and has authored The Pocket Essentials on Philip K. Dick, Cyberpunk, Terry Pratchett, Postmodernism and Film Studies, as well as articles on Iain Banks, Jeff Noon, Jack Womack, and many others. He has been a recipient of the SFRA Pioneer Award. Brian Charles Clark was the founding editor and publisher of Permeable Press (named by Larry McCaffrey as one of the most important independent presses of the 1990s). Clark is the author of a science fiction novel, Splitting, and three chapbooks of poetry, as well as numerous essays, stories, and reviews. His semi-autonomous digital avatar, DJ Funken Wagnalls, is the composer of, among many other pieces, an epic history of science fiction rapped in rhyme by MC Cottonmouth that ends in a video game (see briancharlesclark.com). Clark has lived in the Mojave Desert, the Ozark Plateau, and among the wheat fields of the Palouse in eastern Washington, where he continues to write sentences and music and to occasionally teach literature and film to college students. Samuel R. Delany is a novelist and critic who lives in New York City and teaches at Temple University. His novels Babel 17, Nova, Dhalgren, and The Fall of the Towers, and a short story collection, “Aye and Gomorrah” and Other Stories, were recently reissued by Vintage Books. His essays are collected in three volumes, from Wesleyan University Press: Silent Interviews, Longer Views, and Shorter Views. A new novel, Dark Reflections, will appear this year from Carroll and Graf. Edward James is currently professor of medieval history at University College, Dublin ; he has also worked at the University of York and Reading University. From 1986 to 2001 he was editor of Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction. For his work on science fiction (which includes five authored, edited or coedited books) he has received the Eaton Award, the Pilgrim Award, and a Hugo. Keridwen Luis is pursuing her Ph.D. in anthropology at Brandeis University; her dissertation is a project exploring community, culture, and gender in women’s communities and lesbian lands. She also studies nonheteronormative sexualities cross-culturally; she created and taught a course on this subject at Brandeis in 2005. Her broad academic interests range from personhood, gender, and agency in shoujo 272 Contributors Japanese anime and manga, to feminist approaches to SF as a field, to anthropology of the body, and to the meaning of belief in modern ghost phenomena. Sandra Lindow, recently retired from a quarter-century stint working as a reading specialist in a treatment center for emotionally disturbed children and adolescents, is looking forward to a relatively less stressful life of writing, teaching, and editing. She has published five books of poetry, and is in the process of completing a book of essays on Ursula K. Le Guin. Her essays have appeared in Extrapolation, Foundation , the New York Review of Science Fiction, and Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy: An Encyclopedia. Paul March-Russell teaches English and comparative literature at the University of Kent, Canterbury. His publications include articles on Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, William Gibson, and Douglas Oliver. He recently edited May Sinclair’s Uncanny Stories (Wordsworth Editions, 2006) and is coeditor, with Carmen Casaliggi, of Ruskin in Perspective (Cambridge Scholars Press, forthcoming). His introduction to the short story is forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press, while his current research project is the British neoromantic movement, 1925–55. Farah Mendlesohn was the editor of Foundation from 2001 to 2007. In 2005 she and Edward James won the Hugo for The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction. Her most recent book is Rhetorics of Fantasy, also published by Wesleyan University Press. She is reader in science fiction and fantasy at the University of Middlesex. Helen Merrick lectures in the faculty of Media, Society & Culture at the Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia. She has published various articles on the cultural history of feminist science fiction, including contributions to the Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction (2003); Speaking Science Fiction (Liverpool University Press, 2000); Trash Aesthetics: Popular Culture and its Audience (Pluto, 1997) and the forthcoming Queer Universe: Sexualities in Science Fiction (Liverpool University Press) and The Joy of SF (Open Court, 2007). With Tess Williams she coedited the collection Women of Other Worlds: Excursions through Science Fiction and Feminism (University of Western Australia Press, 1999). Her current research focuses on the intersections of feminist science fiction and science studies. Dianne Newell is professor in the Department...