GEORGE R. R. MARTIN has been called “the American Tolkien,” and his books, including the volumes on his landmark A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series, have been on bestseller lists around the world. He’s won four Hugo Awards, two Nebula Awards, the World Fantasy Award, and the Bram Stoker Award. As editor, he’s produced the long-running Wild Cards anthology series as well as the New Voices series and others. He’s also worked for Hollywood and television and was part of the creative team behind such shows as Beauty and the Beast and the revival of The Twilight Zone.
GARDNER DOZOIS has won fifteen Hugo Awards and thirty-four Locus Awards for his own writing. He was the editor of the leading science fiction magazine, Asimov’s Science Fiction, foe eighteen years, and is also the editor of the annual anthology series The Year’s Best Science Fiction, now in its twenty-seventh annual collection. He is the author or editor of more than a hundred books.