(Nader Elhefnawy) ThndrBtle (at) aol (dot) com is Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature at the University of Miami. He has written widely on literature and international affairs, and reviewed science-fiction for several publications including the New York Review of Science Fiction, the Internet Review of Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, and Future Fire. He has recently published his first short story, “The Transmigration” (in the June 2007 issue of the Taj Mahal Review) and is currently seeking publishers for his collection Tales From The Singularity (of which “The Transmigration” was a part) and his offbeat tale of modern-day courtly love, Forever Tilting.