Rosemary Claire Smith

Rosemary Claire Smith writes about time travel, space exploration, alternate history, mythological beings, and dinosaurs past and future. Her story “Apollo in Retrograde” won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History. She is a four-time finalist for Analog Magazine’s readers award. Look for her regular book reviews in Analog.

As a field archaeologist, Rosemary excavated ancient sites in the U.S. She has never given up her dream of jumping back in time to Bronze Age societies or much farther to the heyday of the dinosaurs. You can come along by playing her interactive adventure game, T-Rex Time Machine. Follow her on-line: www.rcwordsmith.com and across social media @RCWordsmith to find out what else she is up to.

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