*Divya, S. B.: - S.B. Divya is the Hugo- and Nebula-nominated author of Meru in the Alloy Era series, Machinehood *, Runtime, and the short-story collection Contingency Plans for the Apocalypse and Other Possible Situations. Her stories have been published in various magazines, such as Analog and Un...

*Divya, S. B.: - S.B. Divya is the Hugo- and Nebula-nominated author of Meru in the Alloy Era series, Machinehood *, Runtime, and the short-story collection Contingency Plans for the Apocalypse and Other Possible Situations. Her stories have been published in various magazines, such as Analog and Uncanny; on Tor.com; and in several anthologies, including Seasons Between Us and Rebuilding Tomorrow. She holds degrees in computational neuroscience and signal processing, and she worked for twenty years as an electrical engineer before becoming an author. A lover of science, math, fiction, and the Oxford comma, she enjoys subverting expectations and breaking stereotypes whenever she can. For more information, visit www.sbdivya.com.