Yes, and there's more than you may think. In past issues, we've interviewed Neal Stephenson, Tad Williams, Tim Powers and many others. Visit our sister site for the best in SF-oriented chat. You see, I didn't know anything about fiction publishing when I started out, so the challenge was teaching myself about the business side. Once I did meet people who could talk to me about who published what, what was involved, all those things, then it was a case of being very patient.
Publishing is definitely hurry up and wait.
Fortunately, I was busy writing science non-fiction which made the waiting part a little easier. Probability Moon by Nancy Kress reviewed by Greg L. Johnson Human beings have expanded into space, and in the process discovered an interstellar transportation system left behind by some unknown alien race. Several other civilizations have been discovered, all humanoid and seemingly related to homo sapiens. The one exception is the hostile Fallers. When it is discovered that a moon orbiting an inhabited plant is actually an artifact, possibly a weapon, possibly left behind by the same aliens that built the transportation system, the race is on to figure out just what it is before the Fallers can get there.