Maximum Velocity: The Best of the Full-Throttle Space Tales

DAYTON WARD is the New York Times bestselling author or co-author of more than twenty novels, often working with friend and co-writer Kevin Dilmore. He's also written (or co-written) for Star Trek Communicator, Star Trek Magazine, Syfy.com, StarTrek.com, and Tor.com, and is a monthly contributor to the Novel Spaces writers blog. Ward is known to wax nostalgic about all manner of geek and sundry topics over on his own blog.

Jennifer Brozek is an award-winning author, editor, and media tie-in writer. She is the author of Never Let Me Sleep and The Last Days of Salton Academy, both of which were nominated for the Bram Stoker Award. She shares her husband, Jeff, with several cats and often uses him as a sounding board for her story ideas.

A native of Chicago, Mike Resnick is a graduate of Highland Park High School in Highland Park, Illinois. He attended the University of Chicago from 1959 to 1961 where he met his future wife, Carol. The couple were married 1961. In the 1960s and early 1970s, Resnick wrote more than 200 ¿adult¿ novels under pseudonyms, edited seven tabloid newspapers, and edited a trio of men¿s magazines. He also produced a weekly column on horse racing for more than a decade, and for eleven years wrote a monthly column on purebred collies, which he and his wife bred and exhibited. His wife Carol is also a writer, as is his daughter, Laura Resnick, who is an award-winning science fiction and fantasy author. Resnick¿s papers, consisting of at least 125 boxes, are in the Special Collections Library of the University of South Florida in Tampa. He was the Guest of Honor at Chicon 7, the 70th World Science Fiction Convention, held in Chicago in 2012. Learn more about Resnick and his body of work at mikeresnick.com.