Editor Bryan Thomas Schmidt is an author of novels and short fiction, and Hugo-nominated editor. He has edited Alan Dean Foster, Tracy Hickman, Frank Herbert, was the first editor on Andy Weir's The Martian. His anthologies include "Infinite Stars", "Predator: If it Bleeds", "Shattered Shields" (with Jennifer Brozek), "Beyond the Sun", "Raygun Chronicles", and "Mission: Tomorrow". He lives in Kansas, USA.