13 scholarly essays, 1 12-page memoir/essay by Ursula Le Guin, 2 *encounters*, 1 book review, by scholars from the U.S. and around the world, including Darko Suvin (Italy), Beth Snowberger (Taiwan), Amy Clarke (UCSD), Vera Benczik (Hungary), Kathleen Keating (Greensboro College), Richard Erlich (Miami U), Linda Wight (Australia), Howard Sklar (Finland), Kasi Jackson (West Virginia U), Jenny Gal-Or (Great Britain), Traci Thomas-Card (U Wisconsin), Marleen Barr (Fordham U), Warren Rochelle (U Mary Washington), Mike Cadden (Missouri Western State U).
Sylvia Kelso lives in North Queensland, Australia, and writes fantasy, SF and mystery/time-travel, with analogue Australian settings. Her novels *The Moving Water* (2006)and *Amberlight* (2007) were finalists for best fantasy novel in the 2007 and 2008 Australian Aurealis genre fiction awards. *Riversend*, the sequel to *Amberlight*, was released in January 2009. Her third published long/short story, "The Sharp-Shooter" appeared with New Ceres Press in *New Ceres Nights* in April 2009. Some of her fiction appears for free access and electronic purchase on Book View Café (http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php)
She is currently preparing a third Amberlight novel ms for a possible publisher, waiting to hear about a mystery/time-travel novel from a second publisher, and has just finished judging the Writers in Townsville inaugural poetry award. http://members.iinet.net.au/~sakelso/
