Contributors

Jonathan Barnes's own poor eyesight, combined with his biologist's curiosity and his frustration at previously published accounts of the Bates method, caused him to write Improve Your Eyesight.

Director of film promotion company The Creative Partnership, Christopher Fowler is the author of twelve novels, as well as numerous screenplays and collections of short stories. His first novel, the bestseller Roofworld, has been developed as a film. One of his short stories, The Master Builder, became a CBS movie starring Tippi Hedren. Another, Left Hand Drive, won Best British Short Film in 1993. The short story 'American Waitress' in Demonized won the British Fantasy Society's Best Short Fiction Prize 2004.

Tony Ballantyne is the author of Twisted Metal, Blood and Iron and the Recursion series, and many short stories. Tony grew up in County Durham in the North East of England. He studied Maths at Manchester University before moving to London, where he taught Maths and IT.
His first SF sale was "The Sixth VNM," which appeared in Interzone 138; since then he has had short stories appear in magazines and anthologies worldwide. He has also written romantic fiction and satirical pieces for various magazines such as Private Eye. Recursion, his first novel, was published by Tor UK in 2004.
Tony has been nominated for the BSFA and Philip K Dick awards. He now lives in Oldham with his wife and two children.