About the Author
Chris Roberson's
short fiction can be found in the anthologies Live Without a
Net (Roc, 2003), The Many Faces of Van Helsing (Ace,
2004), Tales of the Shadowmen, Vols. 1 and 2
(Black Coat Press, 2005 & 2006), FutureShocks (Roc,
2006), and Forbidden Planets (Daw, 2006), and in the
pages of Asimov's, Postscripts, and Subterranean Magazine. His novels include
Here, There & Everywhere
(Pyr, 2005), The
Voyage of Night Shining White (PS Publishing, 2006), and
Paragaea: A Planetary
Romance (Pyr, 2006), and he is the editor of the
anthology Adventure Vol.
1 (MonkeyBrain Books, Nov 2005). Roberson has been a
finalist for the World Fantasy Award for Short Fiction, the John
W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, and twice for the
Sidewise Award for Best Alternate History Short Form (winning in
2004 with his story “O One.”)
He was a co-founder of the
writers’ collective Clockwork Storybook. In addition to producing monthly
material for the collective’s online magazine, Roberson produced
four novels under the aegis of their imprint—Voices
of Thunder, Cybermancy Incorporated, Set the Seas on Fire,
and Any Time At
All—which received positive reviews from
The Magazine of Fantasy &
Science Fiction, Asimov’s Science Fiction, The New York Review
of Science Fiction, Infinity Plus and
RevolutionSF.
In 2003 Roberson and his
business partner and spouse Allison Baker launched the
independent press
MonkeyBrain Books, an independent publishing house
specializing in genre fiction and nonfiction genre studies.
Releases include the extraordinary talents of Michael Moorcock,
Alan Moore, Philip José Farmer, Jeff VanderMeer, Jess Nevins,
Kim Newman, Rudy Rucker, Paul Cornell, and more.
On February 19, 2004, the
couple became the proud parents of a daughter named
Georgia Rose Roberson. The family resides in Austin, Texas.
Author Photo by Sophia Quach (download
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