Alexander Jablokov (pronounced 'Ya-') is the author of Brain Thief. Previous books are Carve The Sky (Morrow/Avonova, 1991), A Deeper Sea (Morrow/Avonova, 1992), Nimbus (Morrow, 1993), River of Dust (Avon, 1996), Deepdrive (Avon Eos, 1998). His stories have appeared in the Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, and Twenty-Eighth Year's Best Science Fiction (ed. Gardner Dozois); and in Asimov's, Amazing, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Aboriginal SF. The Breath of Suspension, a collection of his short fiction, was published by Arkham House in 1994 and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year.

He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with his wife, Mary, his son, Simon, and his daughter, Faith.