"The light spilled in through her tall oval window, which faced east, away from the City, over a high blue plateau smoked with gray clumps of scrub. The mild, orange sun of Nexus, huge to her eyes, hung low over yellow-brown mountains. The mountains shimmered—the effect of the climate shield, she knew, that kept dust outside the city and humidity inside. . . ."

—The Hidden Worlds, Chapter 5

About Kristin Landon

A lifelong resident of the Pacific Northwest, Kristin Landon has been reading science fiction since the age of seven, when she discovered H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds in the school library. Love of SF led to a love of science, and she earned a degree in chemistry and worked as a research lab technician for a number of years, before following her talent for writing and editing into a new career in technical publishing. In addition to her novel writing, she works as a freelance copyeditor of medical, scientific, and technical books.

Her first published novel, The Hidden Worlds, appeared in June 2007. The sequel, The Cold Minds, is coming from Ace Books on June 24, 2008, and can be preordered from Amazon. She is currently working on the third book in the series, which will appear in 2009.

Kristin lives in Oregon, with her husband and a constantly shifting population of teenage children and small pets.

You can read an interview that Tia Nevitt did with Kristin at Fantasy Debut.

Email Kristin: Kristin "at" kristinlandon.com

Image from Daron Kel—see more at his deviantART site.