乔治·R·R·马丁

欧美奇幻小说大师，作品主要以人物为关注点，描写细腻丰富，突破了幻想文学界固有的创作模式，多次引领阅读潮流。代表作有十大浪漫太空歌剧之一的《光逝》、由雨果奖获奖名篇扩展而成的《风港》以及当代正统奇幻的第一经典《冰与火之歌》等。由于马丁的辉煌成就，他被誉为美国的托尔金和新世纪的海明威。由《冰与火之歌》改编的电视剧《权力的游戏》已在HBO播出。乔治·R·R·马丁被时代杂志评选为2011年影响世界的一百人。

加德纳·多佐伊斯

担任了近二十年《阿西莫夫科幻小说》的编辑，也是《年度最佳科幻》系列年选的编辑，赢得了十六次轨迹年度最佳选集奖，十五次雨果年度最佳编辑奖，三十次轨迹最佳编辑奖（创下了十六次连续获奖的记录）。他自己创作的短篇作品赢得了两次星云奖，以及一次侧向奖。加德纳是超过一百部书的作者或编者，他最近的作品包括《猎人行》及选集《银河帝国》等。

丹尼尔·亚伯拉罕

美国作家、剧作家，上世纪90年代末与乔治·R·R·马丁在写作工坊中结缘，接受了后者的教导，并从此结成亦师亦友的关系。他传承了老师多栖写作的本领，自21世纪初投身长篇小说创作以来，分别在三个领域——史诗奇幻、太空歌剧和都市奇幻——同时发表作品，且均获得了很大成就。他创作的《利维坦觉醒》获2012年雨果最佳小说奖和轨迹最佳科幻小说奖提名，《平面的戴安娜》获星云奖提名、并赢得了国际恐怖小说协会奖。

A new benchmark in modern SF. A sharp, clever, funny morality tale that answers the biggest question of all: what makes us human? A fight in an alley behind a bar: a visiting European is knifed by local thug Ramon Espejo and all hell breaks loose. The dead man was a diplomat on an important mission to Sao Paulo, and next day Ramon is on the run heading north in his van toward land that no one has ever explored, or even thought of exploring, land so far only glimpsed from orbit during the first colony surveys. There are women still alive on Sao Paulo who can recall the initial descent onto an untouched world. All the cities of the south have bloomed since then, like mould on a Petri dish. Ramon was among the second wave of colonists. He's gone from being nothing in the hills of Mexico to being nothing on this strange alien world. His only friend Griego tells Ramon God meant him to be poor, or he wouldn't have made him so mean. Ramon's rage has never deserted him. It was there in the alley behind the bar, but he can't actually remember why he killed the European. Leaving all the hell and shit and sorrow of Diegotown behind, Ramon's plan is to look for minerals in the unmapped lands while the heat dies down. He's made a bare living prospecting so far, expecting each trip to be the big one that'll make him rich, and this one is no different. The first samples he blows out of the mountain, however, bring down the mountain upon him as well and a whole undiscovered alien race. Ramon is tethered to one of them and set to 'perform his function'. Whatever that means, he'll find out. And he'll remember why he killed the European.