Alec Nevala-Lee is currently at work on the nonfiction book Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction, which will be released by Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, in 2018. He is the author of the suspense novels The Icon Thief, City of Exiles, and Eternal Empire, all published by Penguin. His short fiction appears frequently in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, including his novelette "The Boneless One," which was selected for The Year's Best Science Fiction, 29th Edition, edited by Gardner Dozois. He graduated from Harvard College with a bachelor's degree in Classics.