PETER S. BEAGLE is the best-selling author of the beloved classic, The Last Unicorn. Published in 1968, when the author was 29, it was made into a Rankin/Bass animated film in 1982. His other novels include A Fine & Private Place, The Innkeeper’s Song, and Tamsin. His short fiction has been collected in four volumes by Tachyon Publications, including The Rhinoceros Who Quoted Nietzsche, The Line Between, We Never Talk About My Brother, and Sleight of Hand. He has won the Hugo, Nebula, Mythopoeic, and Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire awards and the World Fantasy Award for Lifetime Achievement. His recent books are Summerlong, and In Calabria, both out from Tachyon Publications. Peter’s newest collection, The Overneath, as well as the anthology he is editing, The New Voices of Fantasy, are due out this fall.

EFFIE SEIBERG is an up-and-coming young science fiction and fantasy writer, based in San Francisco with the requisite San-Francisco-based tech job. With a slew of promising short fiction to her credit, at any one time she is either working on 1) baking a spaceship-shaped cake, 2) a YA novel 3) walking her dog YoYo, and/or making everything in the tech sector just a little bit better.

Hosted by Terry Bisson and recorded April 17th, 2016 at the American Bookbinders Museum in San Francisco, CA.

HANNU RAJANIEMI was born in Finland, obtained his PhD in string theory at the University of Edinburgh and now works as a co-founder and CTO of HelixNano, a synthetic biology startup based in the Bay Area. He is the author of four novels including The Quantum Thief trilogy and the forthcoming Summerland, and several short stories.

DARYL GREGORY is an award-winning writer of genre-mixing novels, stories, and comics. His novels include Harrison Squared, Afterparty, Pandemonium, Raising Stony Mayhall, The Devil’s Alphabet, and the World Fantasy Award-winning novella We Are All Completely Fine, in development at the SyFy channel. His stories are collected in Unpossible and Other Stories.

Hosted by Terry Bisson and recorded at the American Bookbinders Museum in San Francisco, CA.