Dave Smeds, a Nebula Award finalist, is the author of the novels "The Sorcery Within", "The Schemes of Dragons", "X-Men: Law of the Jungle", and "Piper in the Night". His short fiction has appeared in "Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine", "F&SF", and "Realms of Fantasy", as well as anthologies such as "In the Field of Fire", "Full Spectrum 4", "Peter S. Beagle's Immortal Unicorn", "David Copperfield's Tales of the Impossible", "Warriors of Blood and Dream", "Best New Horror 7", "Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers", "Lace & Blade" and many volumes of Marion Zimmer Bradley's "Sword and Sorceres...