Wet Work (The 4400)
Dayton Ward is a software developer, having become a slave to Corporate America after spending eleven years in the US Marine Corps. In addition to the numerous credits he shares with friend and cowriter Kevin Dilmore, he is the author of severalStar Treknovels, the science fiction novelsThe Last World War,Counterstrike: The Last World War, Book IIandThe Genesis Protocolas well as short stories which have appeared in more than twenty anthologies. He’s also written for web sites such as Syfy.com, Tor.com, and StarTrek.com. He lives in Kansas City with his wife and daughters, but he’s a Florida native and maintains a torrid long-distance romance with his beloved Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Find him on the web at DaytonWard.com.Still reeling from the knowledge thatStar Trekwas a live-action series before it was a Saturday-morning cartoon, Kevin Dilmore is continually grateful for his professional involvement on the fiction and the nonfiction sides of the Star Trek universe for nearly a decade. Since 1997, he has been a contributing writer toStar Trek Communicator, penning news stories and personality profiles for the bimonthly publication of the Official Star Trek Fan Club. He has written for magazines includingAmazing Stories,Star Wars KidsandFLIcK. Kevin’s interviews with some ofStar Trek’s most popular authors appear in volumes of theStar Trek Signature Editions, published by Pocket Books. On the fictional side of things, his short stories include “The Road to Edos” in theStar Trek: New FrontieranthologyNo Limitsand “Home on the Strange,” the first installment ofReality Cops: The Continuing Adventures of Vale and Mistfor Phobos Books. With Dayton Ward, he has written theStar Trek: The Next GenerationnovelsA Time to SowandA Time to Harvest, a story for the anthologyStar Trek: Tales of the Dominion War, eight installments of the continuing ebook seriesStar Trek: S.C.E.and the short story “Enemy Unknown!” forRocket League—The Thrilling Roleplaying Gameby Playus Maximus. Kevin lives in Kansas City, Missouri.