Ein Beitrag von Michael Z. Williamson
Once I started writing Lawyers in Hell, I wanted an environment to make it even more hellish. For military operations, Afghanistan (Ash can istan for the story) came to mind. It's rather inhospitable. And of course, the natives would like lawyers even less than they like most people.
I chose Joseph McCarthy as an antagonist, being one of the least regarded of recent American politicians (he led the hunts for "communists" in the 1950s, seeming to find them everywhere).
Ein Beitrag von Kimberley Richardson
I have always been attracted to writing about the dark side of Life; everything in this world is in balance between light and dark although the dark is ignored or made to be a taboo matter. For me, however, I see it as a pleasing challenge for I respect it for what it is.
When I was invited to write a story for Lawyers in Hell, I considered it to be quite the honour, for although the story would be set in a shared universe, the possibilities were still endless.
Ein Beitrag von David L. Burkhead
Michael Z. Williamson first approached me about writing for the Lawyers in Hell, with Janet Morris approval, of course. I had had little exposure to the Heroes in Hell series before thata short by Gregory Benford in one of the The Nebula Winners volumes and a fix up (a novel made by editing several shorter works together) of Robert Silverbergs Gilgamesh stories. But that was enough to show that the world was different from the concept of Hell Id grown up with. It would have been very difficult to write interesting stories in that concept: And they were tortured for all time. The end.
Ein Beitrag von Edward McKeown
My involvement in Lawyers in Hell came about as do many of my adventures in life, by way of my sense of humor. I was playing with Facebook one day trying to figure out if this was the biggest waster of human time since Rubiks Cube or Gods gift to enterprising networkers (its both) when I chanced across Tempus Thales, the alter ego of Janet Morris. Having read a number of her anthologies and other works, I started corresponding by Facebook with her. Eventually the subject of the Heroes in Hell series came up. As a joke I told her that this field was not exhausted and that I could see room for many other volumes, especially Lawyers in Hell.
Ein Beitrag von Richard Groller
The bulk of my story, "Island Out of Time" was originally written in 1989 while I was still on active duty with the US Army. I am part of the "Veteran Hellions", having previously been published in Prophets in Hell.
When Janet Morris decided to take a hiatus from the Heroes in HellTM series, my story was already in the pipeline for the volume that never materialized. So I filed it away. As luck would have it, I am a very patient man and the Internet is miraculous.
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