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Ramez Naam

Ramez Naam is a computer scientist and the H.G. Wells Award-winning author of four books: the near future science-fiction brain-hacking thrillers Nexus and Crux and the non-fiction books More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement and The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet.  He’s a fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and serves as […]

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Martha Wells

Martha Wells is the author of a number of fantasy novels, including The Cloud Roads, The Wizard Hunters, and the Nebula-nominated The Death of the Necromancer. The Siren Depths was published in December 2012, and is the third in the Books of the Raksura series. Her YA fantasy, Emilie and the Hollow World, was published in April 2013.  She has had short stories […]

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Keffy R. M. Kehrli

Keffy R. M. Kehrli is a science fiction and fantasy writer currently living in Seattle. Although his degrees are in physics and linguistics, he spends most of his time in a basement performing molecular biology experiments for fun and profit. In 2008, he attended Clarion UCSD where he learned that, unfortunately, rattlesnakes don’t always rattle. His […]

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Sarah Pinsker

Sarah Pinsker is the author of the novelette In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind, winner of the 2014 Sturgeon Award and 2013 Nebula Award finalist, and 2014 Nebula finalist, A Stretch of Highway Two Lanes Wide. Her fiction has appeared in Asimov’s, Strange Horizons, Fantasy & Science Fiction, and Lightspeed, and in anthologies including Long Hidden, Fierce Family, and The […]

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Dylan Otto Krider

Dylan Otto Krider has worked as a journalist for 15 years. His work has appeared in Asimov’s, Daily SF, Lightspeed, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Kenyon Review, Confrontations and numerous local and national newspapers and magazines. He is the winner of the Asimov Award and grand prize winner of Writers of the Future. dylanottokrider.com

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Carmen Maria Machado

Carmen Maria Machado’s debut short story collection, Her Body and Other Parties, was a finalist for the National Book Award, the Kirkus Prize, LA Times Book Prize Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, the World Fantasy Award, the Dylan Thomas Prize, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction, and the winner of the Bard Fiction Prize, […]

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Seth Dickinson

Seth Dickinson is a graduate of the University of Chicago, a lapsed PhD candidate at NYU (where he studied racial bias in police shoot/don’t shoot decisions), and an instructor at the Alpha Workshop for Young Writers. He worked with Bungie Studios, creators of Marathon and Halo, to write item descriptions and much of the Grimoire fiction […]

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Jess Barber

Jess Barber lives in Cambridge, MA, where she spends her days (and sometimes nights) building open-source electronics. She is a graduate of the 2015 Clarion Writing Workshop, and her work has recently appeared in Strange Horizons, Lightspeed, and The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Second Annual Collection. You can find her online at www.jess-barber.com.

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James Stoddard

James Stoddard’s short stories have appeared in SF publications such as Amazing Stories and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. His science fiction story, The Battle of York, was included in The Year’s Best SF 10, published by Eos Books, and his fantasy story, The First Editions, was included in the 2009 edition of […]

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Sofia Samatar

Sofia Samatar is the author of four books, most recently Monster Portraits, a collaboration with her brother, the artist Del Samatar. Her first novel, the epic fantasy A Stranger in Olondria, won the 2014 Crawford Award, the British Fantasy Award, and the World Fantasy Award, and was included in Time Magazine’s list of the 100 […]

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