About the Authors
Neal Stephenson is known for his speculative fiction works, variously categorized as science fiction, historical fiction, maximalism, and cyberpunk. He is the author of several New York Times bestselling novels.
Luke Daniels, winner of sixteen AudioFile Earphones Awards and a finalist for the Audie Award for best narration, is a narrator whose many audiobook credits range from action and suspense to young-adult fiction. His background is in classical theater and film, and he has performed at repertory theaters around the country.
Erik Bear
lives and writes in Seattle, Washington. He has written for a bestselling video
game and is currently working on several comic book series.
Greg Bear is an American
author of more than forty books spanning the science fiction, fantasy, and
horror genres. His science fiction works have covered themes of galactic
conflict, artificial universes, consciousness and cultural practice, and
accelerated evolution. His fiction has garnered five Nebula Awards, two Hugo
Awards, the Monty Award, and the Heinlein Award. He has also been an
illustrator of science fiction works in both hardcover and paperback. He has written articles on film for the Los Angeles Times and book reviews for
the San Diego Union. He is a founding
member of the Association of Science Fiction Artists and of the San Diego
Comic-Con. and has served as president and vice president of the Science Fiction
Writers of America. He has also served as a consultant for NASA, the US Army,
the State Department, and other organizations on such matters as crime and
criminal justice, virology and evolution, and bio security.
Joseph Brassey
lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and two cats. He teaches medieval
fighting techniques to members of the armed forces. The Mongoliad is his first published fiction.
Nicole Galland, an award-winning screenwriter, is the author of I, Iago, as well as The Fool’s Tale, Revenge of the Rose, and Crossed: A Tale of the Fourth Crusade.
Cooper Moo
spent five minutes in Mongolia in 1986 before he had to get back on the train—he
never expected to be channeling Mongolian warriors. In 2007 Cooper fought a
Chinese long-sword instructor on a Hong Kong rooftop—he never thought the
experience would help him write battle scenes. In addition to being a member of
The Mongoliad writing team, Cooper
has written articles for various magazines. His autobiographical piece “Growing Up Black and White,” published in the Seattle Weekly, was awarded Social Issues Reporting article of the
year by the Society of Professional Journalists. He lives in Issaquah,
Washington, with his wife and three children.
Mark Teppo suffers from a
mild case of bibliomania, which serves him well in his ongoing pursuit of a
writing career. Fascinated with the mystical and the extra-ordinary, he
channels this enthusiasm into fictional explorations of magic realism, urban
fantasy, and surreal experimentation. Recently, he’s been building franchises
and writing historical fiction.