ABOUT THE AUTHORS

GREGORY BENFORD is a professor of physics at the University of California, Irvine, and lives in Irvine. He is a winner of the United Nations Medal for Literature, and the Nebula Award for his classic novel Timescape. Visit him at www.gregorybenford.com.

LARRY NIVEN is the author of the Ringworld series and many other science fiction masterpieces. His Beowulf’s Children, coauthored with Jerry Pournelle and Steven Barnes, was a New York Times bestseller. He lives in Chatsworth, California. Visit him at www.larryniven.net.