David Sandner�s strange fiction and poetry have appeared in Realms of Fantasy, Asimov�s, Pulphouse, Weird Tales and the anthology Baseball Fantastic edited by W.P. Kinsella, among other places. He is the author of a scholarly book, The Fantastic Sublime: Romanticism and Transcendence in Nineteenth-century Children�s Fantasy Literature (Greenwood, 1996) and co-editor of The Treasury of the Fantastic. He is currently editing Fantastic Literature: A Critical Reader, forthcoming from Praeger. The reader collects important criticism of the fantastic from the eighteenth century to today.

Sandner is an Professor at California State University, Fullerton, where the papers of Philip K. Dick and Frank Herbert reside. He teaches 19th-century British Literature, children�s literature, the gothic, science fiction, and fantastic literature.

Jacob Weisman is the editor and publisher of Tachyon Publications. He has edited books by such renowned authors as Peter S.Beagle, Michael Swanwick, Clifford D. Simak, Nancy Kress, Jack McDevitt, Avram Davidson, and Pat Murphy, among many others. Weisman's fiction and non-fiction has appeared in The Nation, Realms of Fantasy, The Louisville Courier-Journal, The Seattle Weekly, and The Cooper Point Journal. He was nominated for the World Fantasy Award in 1999 for his work at Tachyon.