Andrew Penn Romine lives in Los Angeles, where he works in the visual effects and animation industry and writes speculative fiction. He’s a graduate of the Clarion West Writers workshop and his fiction recently appeared in the zombie anthology Rigor Amortis. He blogs at www.andrewpennromine.com.
To find out how to tell a story on the scale of Dragon Age II, and how this game distinguishes itself from its predecessor, Fantasy Magazine checked in with DA2’s senior writer David Gaider and Associate Producer Heather Rabatich.
Where are the uncles? Cer thought. The uncles must come. But the uncles were not there, and Cer heard a terrible scream from inside the garden walls.
In 1979, Orson Scott Card published the story “Sandmagic.” Like “Ender’s Game,” the piece is about people at war and how war affects children. Both are about innocents who become weapons.
Mia Nutick is a writer and artist from Portland, Oregon. Her reviews and nonfiction articles have appeared in Realms of Fantasy, Faerie magazine, Witches & Pagans magazine, and the Green Man Review. Her fiction and poetry has appeared in Cabinet-des-fees, Mytholog, EOTU, The Eloquent Umbrella, Jabberwocky III, Chizine, and the anthology Ravens in the Library. [...]
Michael Swanwick is the author of the novels Bones of the Earth, Griffin’s Egg, In the Drift, The Iron Dragon’s Daughter, Jack Faust, Stations of the Tide, Vacuum Flowers, and The Dragons of Babel. His latest is a Darger and Surplus adventure titled Dancing With Bears. His short fiction has appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, [...]
Randy Henderson’s fiction has appeared most recently in Realms of Fantasy, the M-Brane anthology 2020 Visions, and Every Day Fiction. He is a Clarion West graduate, a relapsed sarcasm addict, and a milkshake connoisseur who transmits suspiciously delicious words into the ether from his secret lair in Washington State at: Blogheim, Facebookonia, the Twitterverse, and [...]
Holly Phillips is the author of the novels The Burning Girl and The Engine’s Child. She is also the author of many short stories, many of which have been collected in her World Fantasy Award-nominated collection, In the Palace of Repose, and have appeared in such magazines as Asimov’s, Fantasy, Clarkesworld, Weird Tales, Beneath Ceaseless [...]
Abby Fichtner writes The Hacker Chick Blog and is Microsoft’s Developer Evangelist for Startups, where she helps startups as they build out the next generation of software. A self-taught programmer, Abby has been developing software herself for 15 years, along with helping others improve how they develop it. Abby shares her thoughts on software, startups [...]
Jeremiah Tolbert is a writer, photographer, and web developer living in the foothills of Northern Colorado. His fiction and nonfiction has appeared in places such as Interzone, Polyphony, Way of the Wizard edited by John Joseph Adams, and the new ebook fanzine b0t edited by Grant Stone.
