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Jack Womack (b. 1956) was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and moved to New York City in 1977, where he has since resided with his wife and works as Publicity Manager for all the science fiction and fantasy titles at HarperCollinsPublishers. He is the author of the novels Ambient (1987), Terraplane, Heathern, the Philip K. Dick Award-winning Elvissey, Random Acts of Senseless Violence and Going, Going, Gone. Set mostly in two alternate New Yorks – one that never was, but could have been; the other might never be, but then again might – these six books make up a single interrelated narrative called by some the “Dryco”, or “Ambient” cycle, although the author always called it “WomackWorld”. Let’s Put the Future Behind Us is a contemporary novel set in Moscow around 1994, and he is currently working on a new book, Lying to Children. Womack’s infrequent short stories have appeared in such anthologies as Walls of Fear, A Whisper of Blood, The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy and LittleDeaths, and he has contributed non-fiction to Spin, The Washington Post Book World, Science Fiction Eye, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and the New York Review of Science Fiction. He has both written short pieces for and appeared on BBC-TV and the World Service, as well as Radio Bavaria. His novels have been translated into German, French, Spanish, Italian, Hebrew, Japanese, Czech, Polish, Greek, and Norwegian.