Author
Sandra McDonald
Sandra McDonald is an award-winning writer, speaker, and college instructor with several books and short stories in print. Her first collection of stories, Diana Comet and Other Improbable Stories, won a Lambda Literary Award and was a Booklist Editor's Choice, ALA Over the Rainbow book, and Rainbow Award winner. Her Florida Keys GLBTQ adventure Mystery of the Tempest won a Silver Moonbeam award for children's literature. Four of her short stories have made the James A. Tiptree Award honor list. She served eight years in the United States Navy and currently lives in Florida. Visit her at sandramcdonald.com or on Twitter @sandramcdonald.
Stephen D. Covey (BA, Physics) writes science, science fiction, techno-thrillers, and the pro-space blog, RamblingsOnTheFutureOfHumanity.com. At the International Space Development Conferences of the National Space Society, he frequently presents on topics ranging from asteroids to space settlements (and chaired the Asteroid Track in 2013). As Director of Research and Development for Deep Space Industries (a company devoted to asteroid mining and creating the technologies needed to power humanity's expansion into the solar system), Stephen's day job is "turning science fiction into science fact." He is a member of SFWA, ITW, NSS, and AAAS. Visit him at StephenDCovey.com.
Stephen D. Covey (BA, Physics) writes science, science fiction, techno-thrillers, and the pro-space blog, RamblingsOnTheFutureOfHumanity.com. At the International Space Development Conferences of the National Space Society, he frequently presents on topics ranging from asteroids to space settlements (and chaired the Asteroid Track in 2013). As Director of Research and Development for Deep Space Industries (a company devoted to asteroid mining and creating the technologies needed to power humanity's expansion into the solar system), Stephen's day job is "turning science fiction into science fact." He is a member of SFWA, ITW, NSS, and AAAS. Visit him at StephenDCovey.com.