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THE JUDGES
Writer Judges
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Kevin J. Anderson
Kevin J. Anderson
was an early entrant in the Writers of the Future Contest but began
publishing novels soon after the Contest began, and thus lost his
eligibility. Kevin has either written or coauthored over 50 novels
including four best selling prequel novels to Frank Herbert’s classic SF
novel Dune in collaboration with Herbert’s son, and fellow
Writers of the Future judge, Brian Herbert. With over 11 million books in print in 24 languages and 28 novels
appearing on national bestseller lists, Kevin earned an invitation to join
the Writers of the Future panel of judges in 1995. He lives with his wife
and fellow author Rebecca Moesta in the Rocky Mountains.
www.wordfire.com
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Doug Beason
Doug Beason was a Writers of the Future semi-finalist in 1986. He has
since published numerous short stories in such places as Analog, Amazing
Stories and SF Age. He has authored ten novels, many with
collaborator Kevin J. Anderson, including Ignition and the
Nebula-nominated Assemblers of Infinity.
Doug holds a Ph. D. in physics and served on the White House staff
under two administrations working for the President’s Science Advisor.
He’s also served as Director of Faculty Research at the U.S. Air Force
Academy in Colorado Springs, worked with Apollo/Soyoz astronaut Tom
Stafford planning a mission to Mars for NASA, and has directed a plasma
physics laboratory. He currently is the program director for Threat
Reduction Science and Technology at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Los
Alamos National Laboratory. He became a judge in 1996.
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Gregory Benford
Gregory Benford first appeared as an SF writer with a 1000-word short
story that won Second Place in a Magazine of Fantasy & Science
Fiction contest. This capped a long career as an active SF fan, during
which he co-published the legendary amateur magazine, Boid, where
many of his early stories and articles appeared.
His Junior year in high school saw the launching of Sputnik, and veered
him into a serious interest in science which led to a Ph. D. in Physics
and to his appointment as a full professor of physics in 1979. In the
world of science he has been a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, a Fellow at
Cambridge University and a guest lecturer around the globe.Re-awakened interest in writing then led him to also produce such
landmark SF novels as Timescape, In the Ocean of Night, and the
Heart of the Comet.Over the years, he continued to produce compelling SF with Cosm and Martian Race as excellent examples and has a lot more in the works. He
has won three Nebula awards and has been nominated multiple times for
Hugos and Nebulas. He has been a judge since 1984.
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Orson Scott Card
Orson Scott Card has risen rapidly to a high ranking in the SF field. His
novel Ender’s Game and its sequels Speaker for the Dead and Ender’s Shadow are a few of the milestones on his journey to
the top.
In addition to his prose writing, Scott Card is an experienced dramatist,
having written, directed, produced and acted in regional theatre. And
in addition to that, he has a growing reputation as a teacher; his interest
in passing his craft on to younger artists is notable. In addition to
Writers of the Future workshops, he has taught at the Clarion SF-writing
workshops and at Brigham Young University, the University of Utah, Notre
Dame, the University of North Carolina - Greensboro, and Utah Valley State
College. (Photo credit: Bob Henderson, Henderson Photography,
Inc.)
www.hatrack.com
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Brian Herbert
In addition to, The Butlerian Jihad, a New York Times bestseller,
Brian Herbert has co-authored three other best-selling Dune prequel
novels with Writers of the Future Contest fellow judge Kevin J. Anderson.
Among his own published works are the novels Sidney’s Comet; Sudanna,
Sudanna; and the Race for God. He co-wrote Man of Two Worlds with his father Frank Herbert. His biography of Frank Herbert entitled Dreamer
of Dune, was recently released by Tor Books. His book about the
U.S. Merchant Marine Forgotten Heroes is also scheduled for
publication
He became a judge in the Writers of the Future Contest in
2003.
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Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Nina Kiriki Hoffman was one of the first winners of the Writers of the
Future Contest. Since then she has gone on to sell more than 150 stories,
several short story collections and a growing list of novels. Her first
novel The Thread that Binds the Bones won a Bram Stoker Award.
Novels in her Matt Black series have earned Nebula, World Fantasy
and Sturgeon award nominations. She has written a collaborative Star
Trek novel, three R. L. Stine’s Ghosts of Fear Street books,
and one Sweet Valley Junior High book.
She became a judge of the Writers of the Future Contest in 2000.
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Eric Kotani
Eric Kotani is a master of many arts. Among other things, he is a
fifth-degree black belt in judo and a sixth-degree black belt in aikido,
and has taught a martial arts class in Columbia, Maryland for twenty
years.
He has a Ph.D. in astrophysics and headed the astrophysics laboratory
at the Johnson Space Center during the Apollo and Skylab Missions. For
fifteen years, he was director of the NASA International Ultraviolet
Explorer (IUE) satellite observatory.He also writes science fiction. Eric Kotani has published several
novels including such noted collaborations as Delta Pavonis and Legacy
of Prometheus and Supernova. He also edited Requiem: New
Collected Works of Robert A. Heinlein and Tributes to the Grand Master, a national bestseller. He also wrote a Star Trek Voyager book entitled Death
of a Neutron Star. His short story, “The Edgeworld” is contained
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Anne McCaffrey
Anne McCaffrey is certainly one of the most successful science fiction
authors in the latter half of the twentieth century, and deservedly so.
She spins a fine tale, as millions have found out by reading her Dragon
Riders of Pern series, or the Killashandra novels, or her Pirate
Planet books or any of her various other works. She has won the Hugo
and Nebula Awards. She lives in Ireland now, raising magnificent horses as well as writing wonderful fiction.
She has been a judge since 1985.
www.annemccaffrey.org
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Rebecca Moesta
Rebecca Moesta (pronounced MESS-tuh) wanted to be an author since her early teens, but it wasn't until 1991 that she began writing in earnest.
Rebecca has written several science fiction stories, both on her own and with her husband (Kevin J. Anderson), and co-written three science fiction and fantasy novels under a pseudonym. In addition to her many fiction credits, she has had photographs, computer art, and nonfiction articles published in numerous science fiction magazines. She has also authored three novels in the Junior Jedi Knights series.
She has been a judge for Writers of the Future since 2007.
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Larry Niven
Larry Niven was working on his masters degree in mathematics when he
dropped out to write science fiction. He broke into professional SF
writing in 1964 and has been going strong ever since. Now a luminary in
the world of science fiction, he is best known for his Known Space future history, a still-growing collection of more than 30 novels and
stories. Ringworld, the most famous of these titles, won the Hugo, Nebula
and Locus awards. He later co-authored a series of novels, that included
the celebrated national bestseller The Mote in God’s Eye, with
fellow judge Jerry Pournelle.
He has been a member of the judge’s panel of the Writers of the
Future since 1985.
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Jerry Pournelle
Jerry Pournelle was born in Louisiana in 1933. His formal education
includes a bachelor’s degree in engineering, a master’s degree in
statistics and systems engineering and two Ph. D.’s (psychology and
political science). He also gained access to a broad spectrum of practical
knowledge from working in such fields as the military, aviation,
aerospace, higher education, politics and computers. He has been a member
of the Citizen’s Advisory Council on National Space Policy since it was
formed and an influential voice in the world of computers and digital
technology.
In the world of SF, his contributions include editorship of many
anthologies, and a range of nonfiction pieces for the SF media, the
presidency of the Science Fiction Writers of America, and of course, the
roster of his stories and novels. He writes alone and in collaboration
with others, notably fellow Writers of the Future judge Larry Niven. Among
his many bestsellers are such blockbusters as The Mote in God’s Eye,
Lucifer’s Hammer, Footfall and Oath of Fealty.
He has been a Writers of the Future judge since 1986. www.jerrypournelle.com |
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Fred Pohl
A notable SF author since before World War II, Frederik Pohl has also been
an editor of great influence throughout his career, starting at
Astonishing and Super Science Magazines and going on to Galaxy, IF and
others. He is the discoverer of Ray Bradbury, R.A. Lafferty, Keith Laumer
and Larry Niven, among scores of other well-known figures. He has also
been a novels editor at several prestigious publishing houses, has served
as an instructor within and outside of the Writers of the Future program.
His own work in fiction includes Day Million, The Gold at
Starbow’s End, The Space Merchants, Man Plus and Gateway which have garnered numerous awards with the last winning every major SF
award the year of its publication. But these symbols of his expertise are
equaled in number by the trophies he’s won as an editor. One year, IF won the Hugos in every eligible category. In 2000 he earned the L. Ron
Hubbard Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to the
Arts.
He has been a Writers of the Future judge since 1985.
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Tim Powers
Tim Powers was born in Buffalo, New York, on Leap Year Day in 1952, but
has lived in southern California since 1959. He graduated from California
State University at Fullerton with a B.A. in English in 1976; the same
year saw the publication of his first two novels, The Skies Discrowned and Epitah in Rust (both from Laser Books).
Power’s subsequent novels include the The Drawing of the Dark, The Anubis Gates (winner of the Phillip K. Dick Memorial Award and the Prix Apollo), Dinner at Deviant’s Place (winner of
the Phillip K. Dick Memorial Award), On Stranger Tides, The
Stress of Her Regard, Last Call, Expiration Date, Earthquake
Weather and Declare. He is the winner of two World Fantasy
Awards for Best Novel. The Manchester Guardian has called Powers
“the best fantasy writer to appear in decades.”
He has taught at the Clarion Science Fiction Writers’ Workshop at
Michigan State Univeristy six times and the Writers of the Future Winners
Workshop four times.
He has been a judge since 1993.
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Robert J. Sawyer
Robert J. Sawyer entered the Writers of the Future contest three times
early in his career. His first novel, Golden Fleece, was an expansion
of a shorter work critiqued for the contest by Algis Budrys; Rob credits
Algis’s comments with helping him make that sale.
Rob has been called “the dean of Canadian science
fiction” by The Ottawa Citizen and “just about the best science-fiction
writer out there these days” by the Denver Rocky Mountain News.
His Hominids won the 2003 Hugo Award for Best Novel of the Year,
and his The Terminal Experiment won the Science Fiction and Fantasy
Writers of America’s 1995 Nebula Award for Best Novel of the Year.
He’s also won the top SF awards in Japan, France, and Spain, as well
as an Arthur Ellis Award from the Crime Writers of Canada. His novels
are top-ten national mainstream bestsellers in Canada, appearing on the Globe and Mail and Maclean’s bestsellers’
lists, and they’ve hit #1 on the bestsellers’ list published
by Locus, the US trade journal of the SF field. In addition,
Rob edits the Robert J. Sawyer Books science-fiction imprint for Calgary’s
Red Deer Press.
Rob became a judge in 2004.
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Robert Silverberg
Robert Silverberg has published widely since the 1950s, and during that
time he has become one of the most widely read and most accomplished
writers in the field, garnering many major awards, including the Hugo and
Nebula.
His latest novel, The Longest Way Home, was serialized in Asimov’s
Science Fiction magazine and released in book form in early 2003. It
will soon be followed by Roma Eterna, another in his series of books about
an alternate universe where the Roman Empire never ended.
He has been a Writers of the Future judge since 1984.
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K. D. Wentworth
K. D. Wentworth was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, then attended 13 different
schools before graduating from high school in upsate New York and
returning to Oklahoma to earn her B.A. in Liberal Arts from the University
of Tulsa. An elementary school teacher, she
entered and became a winner in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future
Contest in 1988. Since that auspicious start of her professional writing
career, she has sold over fifty short stories, two of which have been
Nebula nominees, to such markets as Aboriginal SF, Pulphouse, Return to
the Twilight Zone, Fantasy & Science Fiction and Realms of
Fantasy.
She has also published six novels including her two most recent, Stars
Over Stars and This Fair Land.
In 2000, she became a judge in the Writers of the Future Contest, then
became First Reader and now serves as the Coordinating Judge.
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Sean Williams
Author of seventy published short stories and twenty-nine novels, nominated for the Ditmar, the Aurealis and the prestigious Philip K Dick Award for Saturn Returns, Sean has been published around the world in numerous languages, on-line, and in spoken word editions. He won the Writers of the Future contest in 1992, was published in Volume IX of the anthology and has never looked back since.
Sean lives with his wife and family in Adelaide, a city once described by Jules Verne as the prettiest in Australia and by Salman Rushdie as "an ideal setting for a Stephen King novel". He completed a Masters in Creative Writing at Adelaide University in 2005 and is currently a PhD candidate at the same institution. He is a founding board member of the award-winning Big Book Club Inc., on the executive board of the Australian Society of Authors, and on the board of the SA Writers' Centre. He has been a peer assessor for the Literature Board of the Australia Council and chair of the literature advisory board of Arts SA. He judges or has judged for the Aurealis Awards, the Somerset National Novella Competition and the Writers of the Future contest. He has tutored for Clarion South (2005 and 2009) and is an honorary member of the International Golden Key Society. He has been a guest of all the literary festivals of Australian capital cities (some of them more than once) and various National SF Conventions.
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Dave Wolverton
Dave Wolverton began writing during college and entered short stories into various contests. His career began in 1987 when he won the top award in the L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Contest.
Dave Wolverton since became a judge for the Writers of the Future Contest, starting in 1991. In addition he did edit the annual anthology before passing the role to Algis Budrys who helped launch the contest.
Other awards he has been nominated for include the Nebula Award in the Best Novellete category for his short story After a Lean Winter. He has also been nominated for a Hugo Award.
Dave has published several science fiction and fantasy stories including On My Way to Paradise, Wheatlords, Star Wars: The Courtship of Princess Leia and several fantasy series including The Runelords and Mummy Chronicles. |
Illustrator Judges
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Edd Cartier
Edd Cartier can call on over 60 years experience in the field of
illustration and commercial art when judging entries to the Illustrators
of the Future Contest.
Edd was instructed in art at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn back in
the 1930s by artists who also illustrated for pulp magazines. One of his
teachers was the art editor for the famous pulp publishing house, Street
& Smith. Even before he graduated, Edd began working on illustrations
for magazines, and upon graduation he was immediately assigned to one of
the foremost pulps, The Shadow.
Among his thousands of pieces, Edd has illustrated in such magazines as Unknown, Doc Savage, and Astounding, along with Red Dragon
Comics, and he also did covers for Gnome Press and Fantasy Press
Books. He illustrated covers for virtually every major author of his time
including L. Ron Hubbard, Isaac Asimov, Theodore
Sturgeon, Jack Williamson, Gordon R. Dickson and many others.
In 1988 at the Writers of the Future awards event held at the United
Nations in New York City, Edd was presented the first in what was to
become a series of awards, the L. Ron Hubbard Lifetime Achievement Award
for Outstanding Contributions to the Arts.He is also a recipient of First Fandom’s Hall of Fame Award and was
recently nominated for a Retro Hugo for the Best Professional Artist of
1950.
He has been an Illustrators of the Future judge since 1989.
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Vincent Di Fate
Vincent Di Fate has been cited by People Magazine as “One of the top
illustrators of science fiction.” The many awards he has received for
his paintings would attest to that including the Frank R. Paul Award for
Outstanding Achievement in Science Fiction Illustration, the Hugo Award
for Best Professional Artist and the Chesley Award from the Association of
Science Fiction/Fantasy Artists for Lifetime Artistic Achievement. He was
also Guest of Honor at the 50th World Science Fiction Convention in 1992.
His work has been exhibited at the Hayden Planetarium in New York City,
the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institute in
Washington, D.C and the Kennedy Space Center.In addition to providing us with his own art, he has written numerous
articles on the topic and published two major books: Di Fate’s
Catalog of Science Fiction Hardware and the award winning Infinite
Worlds: The Fantastic Visions of Science Fiction Art, in which he
collects works from many of the modern masters and discusses the
significance of each artist. He continues to lecture extensively about the
methods, meaning and history of his craft and has been a consultant for
MCA/Universal, 20th Century Fox and MGM/United Artists. He is an Adjunct
Professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology (State University of New
York).
He has been an Illustrators of the Future judge since 1996.
www.vincentdifate.com
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Leo and Diane Dillon
Leo and Diane Dillon are legends in the world of illustration and the
graphic arts. They met in 1954 at the Parsons School of Design in New York
City, married in 1957 and have collaborated in an artistic partnership
ever since.
Their inspired and beautiful work has adorned thousands of venues
including many science fiction and fantasy publications as well as
children’s books they have written themselves.They are known far and wide for their line, draftsmanship and unique
color sense. They have earned numerous awards including a Hugo for Best
Professional Science Fiction Artists.
They have been Illustrators of the Future judges since 1998.
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Bob Eggleton
Bob Eggelton was born in Concord, Massachusetts in 1960 and became
interested in science fiction art at an early age. Today he is a
successful science fiction, fantasy and landscape artist. Winner of 7 Hugo
Awards and 11 Chesley Awards, his art can be seen on covers of numerous
magazines, professional publications and books in the world of SF, Fantasy
and Horror across the world including several volumes of his own work. He
also has worked as a conceptual illustrator for movies and thrill rides.
Of late, Bob has been doing more private commissions and self
commissioned work. He is an elected Fellow of the International
Association of Astronomical artists and is a Fellow of The New England
Science Fiction Association.
He has been an Illustrators of the Future judge since
1988.
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Frank Frazetta
Frank Frazetta was born February 9, 1928, in Brooklyn New York, and began
drawing as soon thereafter as possible. He literally does not remember a
time he didn’t draw. At eight, he was enrolled in the Brooklyn Academy
of Fine Arts. His instructor, Michael Falanga, called him a genius. He was
not the last to do so. Frazetta still remembers with great fondness how
Paul Grubman heavily influenced him, and fought to win him recognition in
scholastic competitions, as his teacher at Abraham Lincoln High School.
Beginning his extensive career in comics at the age of 16, he went to
work on the Li’l Abner comic strip in 1954, and then on to Buck Rogers,
and other memorable comic art.At about this time, his career expanded dramatically. He was introduced
to paperback covers, and after an initial period with Ace Books, struck a
deal with Lancer which resulted in art that is highly prized today. The rest is history; there has never been a paperback artist like
Frazetta.L. Ron Hubbard called him the “King of Illlustrators.”
He has been an Illustrators of the Future judge since 1988.
www.frazettaartgallery.com
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Laura Brodian Freas
Laura Brodian Freas, is a Doctor of Music and a professional artist whose
first nationally illustrations appeared in Weird Tales, Analog, Marion
Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine, and in special editions of Easton
Press. She has been nominated for the Association of Science Fiction and
Fantasy Artist’s highest award four times. She and husband, Frank Kelly
Freas, shared the Chesley Award for the joint painting Scribe. If
you listen to classical music on National Public Radio, you have heard her
hosting Music Through the Night and other classical segments.
She became a judge of the Illustrators of the Future Contest in 1996.
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Stephen Hickman
Stephen Hickman has illustrated more than 450 book covers for major speculative
fiction authors—including Harlan Ellison, Robert Heinlein, Anne McCaffrey
and Larry Niven—since 1976. He received a Hugo Award, one of speculative
fiction’s highest honors, in 1994 for his series of U.S. Postal Service
Space Fantasy stamps.
He has been an Illustrators of the Future judge since 2005.
www.stephenhickman.com
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Ron and Val Lindahn
Ron spent eleven years as a photographer and film maker for a Fortune 500
company. In 1978, he moved from California to North Georgia to teach
meditation and work at a spiritual retreat facility. Val was already
working in the field of illustration (garnering two Hugo nominations) when
they met, were married and began working together in 1983. They live deep
in the woods of the North Georgia Mountains. The couple’s book cover
illustrations have graced many top science fiction and fantasy authors’
works, both in the U.S. and abroad. In addition to book covers, they have
produced movie posters and video packages, posters promoting the North
Georgia Mountains, T-shirt designs, images of TSR’s Dungeons and
Dragons series, and for a time they produced a monthly feature for Heavy
Metal Magazine.
Ron and Val are now collaborating on their own illustrated book
projects and have published The Secret Lives of Cats, How to Choose
Your Dragon, and Old Misses Milliwhistle’s Book of Beneficial
Beasties.
They have been Illustrators of the Future judges since 1988. Ron is the Coordinating Judge of the Illustrators of the Future
contest.
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Judith Miller
Judith Miller, earned her master’s degree in fine arts from Rutgers
University. She has worked steadily at her craft since then and gained
experience in many aspects of illustration, with works published in
numerous books and magazines. Her award-winning paintings can be found in
private collections around the country.
She has been an Illustrators of the Future judge since 2000.
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Stephan Martiniere
In the past 20 years Stephan Martiniere has become known for his talent, versatility and imagination in every entertainment fields. From director to concept illustrator Stephan has worked on such projects including: “ star wars EP2 and EP 3”, “I, robot”, “The Time Machine”, “Virus”, “Red Planet”, “ Dragon Heart 2” and “Titan A.E”. As a director for the TV animated specials “Madeline” Stephan received the A.C.T Award, the Parent’s Choice Award, the Humanitas Award and was nominated for an Emmy Award. As an illustrator Stephan is the recipient of several “Spectrum” and “Expose” Awards. In 2004 Stephan received the “Expose Grand Master Award. He also won the Thea award for his work on the paramount theme park “super saturator” and received the British Science Fiction Award for best cover of 2004. Stephan is also the recipient of the 2006 chesley Award and has been nominated twice for the Hugo Award. In the game industry Stephan Martiniere worked for three years as a visual design director at Cyan, the creators of “Myst” on the game “Uru: ages beyond Myst”, “ Myst: the path of the shell”’ and “Myst 5”. In 2005 and 2006 Stephan received the “Into The Pixel” Award. Stephan Martiniere is currently the Visual Design Director for the game Stranglehold and the Creative Visual Director for Midway Games in Chicago.
He has been an Illustrators of the Future judge since 2007.
www.martiniere.com
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Cliff Nielsen
Cliff Nielsen studied traditional and digital illustration and graduated as valedictorian from Art Center College of Design in 1994. His illustrations have been recognized for their excellence by the Society of Illustrators, Print, and Spectrum. Feature articles focusing on his work appear in design publications and fanzine magazines alike. Cliff has been an international speaker on digital art and has served as a judge for the Society of Illustrators and a variety of professional illustration award programs. He lives and dreams in Los Angeles, California.
He has been an Illustrators of the Future judge since 2007.
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Sergey Poyarkov
Sergey Poyarkov is the buoyant, enthusiastic winner of the 1991 L. Ron
Hubbard Illustrators of the Future Gold Award. He arrived in Los Angeles from his native
Ukraine to receive his award, as Soviet communism fell
in his homeland.
Sergey has since gone on to a successful artistic career as an
illustrator and made a career transition to fine artist, with his works
displayed in museums in Russia, Europe and the United States. He has now
published his own book, Balance of Contradictions, in which he conveys not only his art but his own
philosophy of art, bringing an expression of pride in his roots and
appreciation of his new friends in other countries.He exemplifies much of what the L. Ron Hubbard Illustrators of the
Future Contest is all about, and what Mr. Hubbard said of artists: “A
culture is as rich and as capable of surviving as it has imaginative
artists. The artist is looked upon to start things. The artist injects the
spirit of life into a culture.”
He has been an Illustrators of the Future judge since 2000.
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H. R Van Dongen
H. R. Van Dongen has been one of the premiere science fiction illustrators
from the early 1950s through the 1970s, creating more art for Astounding
Science Fiction than any other artist. His superb artistry led to at
least one Hugo Award nomination for best professional artist. In addition
to his work in science fiction, he has also illustrated numerous magazines
and book covers over the years. He is widely recognized for his ability to
read a story, extract the precise meaning of the author’s intent, and
convey it through pictures.
Mr. Van Dongen has been a judge of the Illustrators of the Future
Contest since its inception and he demonstrates his own precise artistic
insight and conscientiousness while performing his judging duties.
He has been an Illustrators of the Future judge since 1988.
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Stephen Youll
Stephen Youll has received best artist, best in show, and best professional
awards from major science fiction and fantasy conventions worldwide, and
he has been nominated several times by the Association of Science Fiction
and Fantasy Artists as best hardcover/softcover artist. In 1996, he received
a gold award from the Magazine and Booksellers Newsstand for most outstanding
cover. Born in Hartlepool, England in 1965, Youll first worked as a historical
reconstruction artist at Durham Cathedral, one of England’s oldest
after graduating from the Durham New College of Art and Design. He moved
to the United States in 1989 and has exhibited his artwork extensively in
both countries. Youll first gained notoriety in the United States for a
series of covers which he executed for a repackaging of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation, Robot, and Empire series novels in
1991. He has since illustrated covers for numerous speculative works by
Arthur C. Clark, Robert Silverberg, Kevin J. Anderson, Brian Herbert, and
others.
He has been an Illustrators of the Future judge since 2005.
www.stephenyoull.com
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