Alec Nevala-Lee’s nonfiction book Astounding: John W. Campbell, Isaac Asimov, Robert A. Heinlein, L. Ron Hubbard, and the Golden Age of Science Fiction will be released by Dey Street Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, on August 18, 2018. His novels include The Icon Thief, City of Exiles, and Eternal Empire, all published by Penguin Books, […]

Wole Talabi is an engineer, writer, and editor from Nigeria. His stories have appeared in Asimov’s, F&SF, Clarkesworld, and several other places. His fiction has been a finalist for several prestigious awards including the Nebula Award (2023), the Caine Prize (2018), the Locus Award (2022), and the Nommo Award which he won in 2018 and […]

Nghi Vo lives on the shores of Lake Michigan, and her fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Expanded Horizons, Crossed Genres, and Icarus Magazine. She likes stories about things that fall through the cracks and live on the edges, and she has a deep love for tales of revolution (personal and political), transfiguration and transmutation. […]

Peter Watts is a former marine biologist, flesh-eating-disease survivor, and convicted felon (long story) whose novels—despite an unhealthy focus on space vampires—have become required texts for university courses ranging from Philosophy to Neuropsychology. His work is available in 24 languages, has appeared in 36 best-of-year anthologies, and been nominated for 61 awards. His (somewhat shorter) […]

Rudy Rucker is a writer, a mathematician, and a computer scientist.  He received Philip K. Dick awards for his cyberpunk novels Software and Wetware, and an Emperor Norton award for his autobiography Nested Scrolls.  He lives in the San Francisco Bay area, and he paints in his spare time. His recent titles include The Big Aha, Transreal Trilogy,  and Journals: 1990-2014. His […]

Patricia Strand is a Canadian writer living in Kitchener, Ontario. Her work has been published in On Spec, Tales of the Unanticipated, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Storyteller, as well as in Best of the Rest 3, and Exact Fare 2 anthologies.

Craig DeLancey is a writer and philosopher. He has published dozens of short stories in magazines like Analog, Cosmos, Shimmer, and Nature Physics. His novel Gods of Earth is available now with 47North Press. He also writes plays, many of which have received staged readings and performances in New York, Los Angeles, Melbourne, and elsewhere. […]

Timons Esaias is a satirist, writer and poet living in Pittsburgh. His works, ranging from literary to genre, have been published in nineteen languages. He has also been a finalist for the British Science Fiction Award, and won the Asimov’s Readers Award. His story “Norbert and the System” has appeared in a textbook, and in […]

Mark W. Tiedemann has been publishing professionally since 1990 and to date has 10 novels, 2 collections, and 60 short stories to his credit. He is a lifelong resident of St. Louis. At various times he has been a photographer, a musician, a delivery driver, lab technician, president of a state organization (the Missouri Center […]