From "About Poul Anderson" in the 1985 edition of Brain Wave:

What would happen if...

Those are magic words, and the writer who chooses to follow out their intention finds himself suddenly released, in a world unbounded by here and now and open to the farthest reaches of logic and imagination.  What would happen if philosophers were kings, if men could live forever, if the human race could suddenly surmount the limits of its present intelligence?

Such a train of thought has been the starting point for some of the most fascinating works of imaginative fiction, and it is to this class of informed speculation that BRAIN WAVE belongs.  Poul Anderson (the pronunciation lies midway between "pole" and "powl") is, like many of the best writers in science fiction, a graduate physicist.  (The physical sciences seem to be producing as many authors as medicine did a generation ago.)  As such, he brings to fiction that sense of the possible that the widening horizon of science often bestows.

From Beowulf's Children:

Steven Barnes has published twenty-eight novels and over three million words of science fiction and fantasy. He has been nominated for Hugo, Nebula, and Cable Ace awards.  His television work includes Twilight Zone, Stargate and Andromeda; his “A Stitch In Time” episode of The Outer Limits won the Emmy Award; and his alternate history novel LION’S BLOOD (a tale of Islamic Africans colonizing the Americas prior to Europe) won the 2003 Endeavor. GREAT SKY WOMAN  and SHADOW VALLEY, adventures set 30,000 years ago in East Africa, were published by Ballentine/One World Books. 

CASANEGRA, an erotic mystery novel written with his wife, American Book Award-winning novelist Tananarive Due, and Hollywood luminary Blair Underwood, was published by Atria and immediately became an Essence Best-Seller. Its sequel, IN THE NIGHT OF THE HEAT won the 2009 NAACP Image Award. The third novel, FROM CAPE TOWN WITH LOVE was notable for the creation of one of the first "Vook" video books, incorporating dramatized scenes from the novel into a digital App. The trailer, starring Underwood and scripted by Barnes and Due, can be viewed at: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
 
With World Champion martial artist Scott Sonnon, Barnes created the best-selling TACFIT Warrior mind-body exercise program, based on Soviet research into human performance. www.tacfitwarrior.com   

He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and son Jason.

Larry Niven is the pen name of Laurence van Cott Niven.  He was born in 1938 in California.  He received a Bachelor's of Science in mathematics from Washburn University in Kansas.  His first publication was "The Coldest Place" for If in 1964.  He has since written many books including those in his Tales of Known Space series which also began in "The Coldest Place".

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From Beowulf's Children:

Born April 30, 1938 in Los Angeles, California. Attended California Institute of Technology; flunked out after discovering a book store jammed with used science fiction magazines.  Graduated Washburn University, Kansas, June 1962: BA in Mathematics with a Minor in Psychology, and later received an honorary doctorate in Letters from Washburn. Interests: Science fiction conventions, role playing games, AAAS meetings and other gatherings of people at the cutting edges of science. Comics. Filk singing. Yoga and other approaches to longevity. Moving mankind into space by any means, but particularly by making space endeavors attractive to commercial interests. Several times we’ve hosted The Citizens Advisory Council for a National Space Policy. I grew up with dogs. I live with a cat, and borrow dogs to hike with. I have passing acquaintance with raccoons and ferrets. Associating with nonhumans has certainly gained me insight into alien intelligences.