About Max McCoy
Max
McCoy is an award-winning novelist, screenwriter, and investigative reporter.
In 1992, he won the 1992 Medicine Pipe Bearer’s Award for Best First Novel from
the Western Writers of America for The Sixth Rider, a novel about the
1892 Dalton raid on Coffeyville’s banks. Hellfire Canyon, McCoy’s fourteenth
novel, was named Best Paperback Original by the Western Writers of America in
2008. His other westerns include I, Quantrill, A Breed Apart, and
Into the West, the novelization of Steven Spielberg’s epic television
miniseries.
About Reed McColm
Algis Budrys (1931–2008) was born in Königsberg, East Prussia, where his father served in the Lithuanian diplomatic corps. The family came to the United States when Budrys was five years old. A Renaissance man, he wrote stories and novels, and was an editor, critic, and reviewer, a teacher of aspiring writers, and a publisher. His science fiction novels include Rogue Moon, Hard Landing, Falling Torch, and many others. His Cold War science fiction thriller Who? was adapted for the screen, and he received many award nominations for his work.