Tony Daniel is a senior editor at Baen Books. He is also the author of ten science fiction novels, the latest of which is
Guardian of Night, as well as an award-winning short story collection,
The Robot's Twilight Companion. He's a Hugo finalist and a winner of the
Asimov's Reader's Choice Award for short story. Daniel is also the author of young adult high fantasy Wulf's Saga series including entries
The Dragon Hammer and its sequel,
The Amber Arrow. Other Daniel novels include the ground-breaking
Metaplanetary and
Superluminal, as well at
Warpath, an adaptation of the novelette "Candle," which appeared in
Asimov's magazine. His second novel,
Earthling, also started life as
"The Robot's Twilight Companion," appearing
in
Asimov's.
Daniel is the coauthor of two books with David Drake in the long-running General series,
The Heretic and
The Savior. He is also the author of original series Star Trek novels
Devil's Bargain and
Savage Trade. Daniel's short stories have been collected in multiple year's best compilations. In the late 1990s, he founded and directed the Automatic Vaudeville dramatic group in New York City, with multiple appearances doing audio drama on WBAI. He's also co-written the screenplays for several horror movies that have appeared on the SyFy and Chiller channel, including the Larry Fesenden directed
Beneath. During the early 2000s, Daniel was the writer, story editor, and sometimes director of numerous radio plays and audio dramas with actors such as Peter Gallagher, Oliver Platt, Stanley Tucci, Gina Gershon, Luke Perry, Tim Robbins, Tim Curry and Kyra Sedgewick appearing in them for SCI-FI.COM's groundbreaking Seeing Ear Theatre. He's the founder of Baen Books Audio Drama and has written, produced, and directed a series of adaptations of the works of Baen Books authors such as Eric Flint and Larry Correia. Daniel has a B.A. from Birmingham-Southern College, where he majored in philosophy. He has a Masters in English from Washington University in St. Louis. He attended the USC Film School graduate program and Clarion West. Born in Alabama, Daniel has lived in St. Louis, Los Angeles, Seattle, Prague, New York City, Dallas, and Raleigh, North Carolina, where he currently resides with his wife Rika, and children Cokie and Hans.
Christopher Ruocchio is the author of the Sun Eater Chronicle, a space opera series from DAW Books, the first novel of which, Empire of Silence, will be out in 2018. He is also the Assistant Editor at Baen Books and a graduate of North Carolina State University. He lives in Raleigh, North Carolina.