Jim Macdonald wrote Second Chances, drawn by Jorge Pereira Lucas for Metal Hurlant, which combined futuristic science-fiction with a space and time-traveling creation myth. He was also a system operator for the Science Fiction RoundTable, and wrote "MacDonald's Nightmare Safari" a classic "lost-world" yarn from the men's adventure magazines for Pulp Adventures #18: Model for a Corpse. He lives in New Hampshire and collaborates with his wife Debra Doyle, with whom he writes science fiction and fantasy.