The Best of Galaxy’s Edge 2013-2014 (27 page)

After college,
Ralph Roberts
served in the army, becoming a decorated Vietnam veteran. Then came his dream job, working with
NASA
during the last part of the Apollo moon-landing program—he’d still be there but …
NASA
—in one of their several budgetary constraints—laid off the smart guys. He came back home to the family farm. Looking for a way to make a few bucks, he started writing. In the mid-70s—when personal computers came only as kits—he built his first one. By 1978, Ralph was writing about
and on
computers, one of the pioneers in word processing. He has sold over twenty million words as a professional writer, including more than 100 books and hundreds of articles and short stories. He also builds amateur radio stuff (his call is
W5VE
), has a rack of servers, tons of computers, and all sorts of gadgets, like that amazing credit-card-sized computer, the Raspberry Pi. He’s currently writing the book
Advanced Raspberry Pi for Everyone
. Ralph still lives on the family farm in the mountains of Western North Carolina with his wife Pat and two horses.

Andrea G. Stewart
lives in Northern California and gardens year-round in her tiny backyard, an activity that allows for copious daydreams of distant lands and planets. Her fiction has appeared in
Writers of the Future Volume 29
,
Beneath Ceaseless Skies
,
Daily Science Fiction
, and of course
Galaxy’s Edge
. When she’s not writing, working her day job, or chasing chickens out of her vegetables, she hangs around the house with her trusty dog, her loud cat, and her endlessly patient husband.

Sabina Theo
was born in Haskovo, Bulgaria, and began reading and writing at the age of three. She is fluent in Bulgarian, English, Greek, and Russian. Her first horror story, “The Substitute,” was published when she was seventeen. The review in
Haskovski vesti
immediately defined her as “original and talented.” She followed that up with her first vampire story,
Running Away from the Light
, which ran over six subsequent issues. Since then she has published thousands of articles on culture, medicine, and social issues, and a number of short stories and poems—in eleven countries altogether, including the USA, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Canada, France, Sweden, Russia, and Argentina. Her novels
The Summer of the Vampires
,
Sons of Shadows
, and
Following the Dusk
are currently scheduled for publication. She also won a prize for Best Short Prose (“The Lover”) in the 2005 Bulgarian national contest. Sabina has also translated the work of Harry Houdini, Louisa May Alcott, and many others into Bulgarian.

Brad R. Torgersen
has been nominated for the Hugo award three times, has won two
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
magazine AnLab readers’ choice awards, has been nominated for the Nebula award, and is a winner of the Writers of the Future award. A full-time computer geek by day, he’s also a Chief Warrant Officer in the Army Reserve on weekends. At night, he writes some of the genre’s best new science fiction. Brad’s first novel,
The Chaplain’s War,
which is based on his Hugo-nominated novella, “The Chaplain’s Legacy”, was released by Baen Books in October 2014. Married for 20 years, he lives in Utah with his wife, daughter, two cats, and two dogs.

Brian Trent
is a writer of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. He is a 2013 winner in the Writers of the Future Contest for his story “War Hero” and has sold work to
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
,
Daily Science Fiction, Apex
(winning the 2013 Story of the Year Reader’s Poll),
Clarkesworld Magazine, Escape Pod,
COSMOS
, Strange Horizons, Penumbra,
and more. He is also a novelist and screenwriter, and is currently developing two separate book series. Brian lives part-time in New England and full-time in imagination.