David Nickle is the award-winning author of the novels Volk: A Novel of Radiant Abomination, The 'Geisters, Rasputin's Bastards and Eutopia: A Novel of Terrible Optimism, and co-author of The Claus Effect, with Karl Schroeder. His stories are collected in Knife Fight and Other Struggles, and Monstrous Affections. He is co-editor of the anthologies Licence Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond and New Canadian Noir. He lives in Toronto, Canada, where he has worked as a journalist covering municipal politics.