Van Aaron Hughes is the author of "The Long View," in the March-April 2013 issue of F&SF, "The Body Pirate" in a forthcoming issue of F&SF, and "The Dualist," which was a winner in the Writers of the Future Contest and published in Writers of the Future Vol. 27. His fiction has also appeared in Orson Scott Card's InterGalactic Medicine Show, Abyss & Apex, Glorifying Terrorism, Electric Spec and other publications. Aaron does book reviews and author interviews for Fantastic Reviews, and he conducts the Battle of the Books for the Fantastic Reviews Blog. In real life, he is a lawyer and has argued before the United States Supreme Court. He has three children and has lived in Denver since 1990.