Tais Teng (1952) is a Dutch SF writer, illustrator, poet and sculptor. Saddled with the quite unpronounceable name of Thijs van Ebbenhorst Tengbergen he shortened that to Tais Teng to leave room for exploding spaceships or clever steampunk ladies on the covers of his novels. In his own language he has written about everything from radio-plays to hefty fantasy trilogies. To date he sold some thirty-five stories in the English language and two children’s books, The Emerald Boy and When the Night-gaunt Knows Your Name. The SF novel Phaedra: Alastor 824, set in the universe of Jack Vance, will be published in 2019 by Spatterlight Press. As a sculptor his most heart-felt wish is a Star Wars laser cannon to carve mountains or one of the lesser Jupiter moons.  Tais Teng is, with Jaap Boekestein, one of the founders of ziltpunk: optimistic climate fiction set in a decidedly Dutch future, with mile-high dykes, hurricane-herders and mangrove islands in front of the coast. His website is taisteng.atspace.com.