SCHUYLER HERNSTROM is named after P. Schuyler Miller, a family friend. He spent his youth reading and rereading the works of Jack Vanceand Robert E. Howard. He has been a paratrooper, sailor, janitor, bouncer, librarian, and a dozen other things, and so brings a world-wise slant to his pages. His readers witness bloody action recounted in graceful prose, tinted by a sadness for lost ages. Sky lives in Pittsburgh with his wife and children.