Dwight, Jeffry 1958-

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DWIGHT, Jeffry 1958-

(Lawrence Fitzgerald, Brian Springer)

PERSONAL:

Born December 28, 1958; children: Nicky, Zack.

ADDRESSES:

Agent—c/o Author Mail, Wildside Press, P.O. Box 301, Holicong, PA 18928-0301. E-mail—jeffry.dwight@greyware.com.

CAREER:

Writer, computer programmer, and business owner. Greyware Automation Products, Inc., chief executive officer; SFF.net (Web site), owner and operator.

MEMBER:

Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Horror Writers Association, American Civil Liberties Union, Electronic Frontier Foundation.

WRITINGS:

FICTION

(Editor) Between the Darkness and the Fire: Twenty-three Tales of Imaginative Fiction from the Internet, Wildside Press (Berkeley Heights, NJ), 1998.

(Editor) The Age of Reason ("Darkfire Anthology" series), SFF.net, 1999.

(Editor) The Age of Wonders ("Darkfire Anthology" series), SFF.net, 2000.

Also author of short stories and novelettes under pseudonyms Lawrence Fitzgerald and Brian Springer.

NONFICTION

(With Robert Niles) CGI by Example, Que (Indianapolis, IN), 1996.

(With others) Special Edition Using CGI, Que (Indianapolis, IN), 1996, second edition (with Robert Niles), Pearson Education (New York, NY), 1997.

Windows NT 4 Systems Programming: The Best Way to Learn How NT Works "under the Hood," Coriolis Group Books (Scottsdale, AZ), 1997.

Contributor to books, including Web Publishing Electronic Resource Kit, Sams (Indianapolis, IN), 1996; Platinum Edition Using HTML 3.2, Java 1.1, and CGI, Que (Indianapolis, IN), 1996; and Special Edition Using Oracle Web Application Server 3, Que (Indianapolis, IN), 1997.

SIDELIGHTS:

Jeffry Dwight is the chief executive officer of Greyware Automation Products, a software and consulting firm specializing in Internet-related utilities. He is also owner and operator of SFF.net, an online community devoted to genre fiction. SFF.net is the official home of such organizations as the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and the Horror Writers Association, and it hosts thousands of author pages. In addition, Dwight has written several books about computer programming and has served as editor for a number of science-fiction anthologies, including Between the Darkness and the Fire: Twenty-three Tales of Imaginative Fiction from the Internet, The Age of Reason, and The Age of Wonders.

Between the Darkness and the Fire took less than one month to compile; Dwight announced the work over the Internet, and submissions began arriving, via E-mail, within the hour. The anthology includes stories from such well-known authors as Vonda McIntyre, Lawrence Watt-Evans, and Bruce Holland Rogers as well as several lesser-known writers. Lisa Dumond, reviewing the collection on the SFSite.com, remarked that Between the Darkness and the Fire "is a pure pleasure to read, and an excellent introduction to some writers you may never have encountered before."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Publishers Weekly, July 27, 1998, review of Between the Darkness and the Fire: Twenty-three Tales of Imaginative Fiction from the Internet, p. 59.