Anne McCaffrey was the Hugo Award-winning author of the best-selling Dragonriders of Pern(R) novels, the Brainship series, and many others. She remains one of the most popular science fiction authors of all time. S.M. Stirling is the New York Times best-selling author of the Draka series, the Lords of Creation series, and the Emberverse series, among others. With David Drake, he is the author of several novels in the General series. He cowrote novels in the Falkenberg's Legion series with Jerry Pournelle. He lives in New Mexico.