Mark Tieris an Australian who lives in Hong Kong partly because, as he puts it, "paying taxes is against my religion." A long-time SF fan and hard-core libertarian, he was a co-founder of the Australian equivalent of the Libertarian Party. He published and edited the investment newsletterWorld Money a.n.a.lyst from 1974 to 1991.

James P. Hoganbegan writing science fiction as a hobby in the mid 1970s, and his works have been well received within the professional scientific community as well as among regular science fiction readers. In 1979 he left DEC to become a full-time writer, and in 1988 moved to the Republic of Ireland. Currently he maintains a residence in Pensacola, Florida, and spends part of each year in the United States. To date, he has published twenty-one novels, including the libertarian cla.s.sicVoyage From Yesteryear , a nonfiction work on artificial intelligence, andtwo mixed collections of short fiction, nonfiction, and biographical anecdotes ent.i.tledMinds, Machines & Evolution andRockets, Redheads & Revolution . A new nonfiction work,Kicking the Sacred Cow , will be released by Baen Books in June 2004. He has also published some articles and short fiction. Further details of Hogan and his work are available from his web site at www.jamesphogan.com.

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