A 2008/2007 Hugo Award nominee, 2007 Chesley Award nominee and 2006 World Fantasy Award nominee, Lou Anders is the editorial director of Prometheus Books' science fiction imprint Pyr, as well as the editor of anthologies"Fast Forward 2" (Pyr, October 2008), "Sideways in Crime" (Solaris, June 2008), "Fast Forward 1"(Pyr, February 2007), "FutureShocks" (Roc, January 2006), "Projections: Science Fiction in Literature & Film" (MonkeyBrain, December 2004), "Live Without a Net" (Roc, 2003), and "Outside the Box" (Wildside Press, 2001). In 2000, he served as the Executive Editor of Bookface.com, and before that he worked as the Los Angeles Liaison for Titan Publishing Group. He is the author of "The Making of Star Trek: First Contact", and has published over 500 articles in various publications.

AndrA(c) Anders is a Senior Staff Scientist and the Leader of the Plasma Applications Group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California. He grew up in East Germany and studied physics in Wroclaw, Poland, Berlin, Germany, and Moscow, Russia. He holds a doctorate degree in physics from Humboldt University, Berlin. From 1987 to 1991 he worked at the Academy of Sciences in East Berlin. After the fall of the Berlin Wall he moved to Berkeley, California, where he joint Berkeley Lab. He is the author of about 200 papers in refereed journals. Dr. Anders serves as an Officer/ Member on several internal conference committees and was elected Fellow of IEEE (USA) and Fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK). He also serves as a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Surface and Coatings Technology.