McKeown, Edward: - Beyond his urban fantasy adventure in the Knight in Charlotte series, Edward McKeown is best known for his two Confederation Space Series: The Robert Fenaday/Shasti Rainhell series of SF novels set on the Privateer Sidhe & set in the same universe, The Maauro Chronicles featuring a 50,000 year old android named Maauro and her friend, a disgraced pilot named Wrik Trigardt, as they battle governments and the Thieves Guild for their freedom in, My Outcast State, Against that Time, The Lost and the newest All the Difference. Ed enjoys a wide variety of interests from ballroom dance to the martial arts even occasionally choreographing some wedding swordfights. Ed has also edited five Sha'Daa anthologies of tales of the Apocalypse.