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Karl Schroeder

Karl Schroeder is a Hugo-nominated author, with a dozen published books including Sun of Suns, Lockstep, and (with Cory Doctorow) The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Publishing Science Fiction. He is also a foresight analyst who consults and gives keynotes on future trends and disruptions. Recently, he has begun building some of his ideas in the […]

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Dexter Palmer

Dexter Palmer is the author of three novels: The Dream of Perpetual Motion (selected as one of the best debuts of 2010 by Kirkus Reviews), Version Control (selected as one of the best books of 2016 by GQ Magazine), and Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen (longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and shortlisted for […]

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Lowry Poletti

Lowry Poletti is a Black author, artist, and veterinary student from New Jersey. They write a variety of fantasy, scifi, and horror fiction unified by their fascination with gore. When they aren’t writing about monsters and the people who love them, they can be found wrist deep in a formalin-fixed lab specimen. Their other pieces […]

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Cody Goodfellow

Cody Goodfellow has written nine novels and five collections of short stories, and edits the hyperpulp zine Forbidden Futures. His writing has been favored with three Wonderland Book Awards. His comics work has been featured in Mystery Meat, Creepy, Slow Death Zero, and Skin Crawl. As an actor, he has appeared in numerous short films, […]

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MKRNYILGLD

MKRNYILGLD (Twitter: @MKRNYILGLD) is a biologist who has the choice to give birth—or not. Her first CRISPR Cookbook short story, previously published in Lightspeed, has been selected to appear in The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2023.

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Sunyi Dean

Sunyi Dean is an autistic author of fantasy fiction. The Book Eaters is her debut novel. Originally born in the States and raised in Hong Kong, she now lives in Yorkshire with her children. When not reading, running, falling over in yoga, or rolling d20s, she sometimes escapes the city to wildswim in lonely dales.

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Jeff Reynolds

Jeff is a science fiction and fantasy writer from Maine whose work has appeared in Clarkesworld, Escape Pod, Daily Science Fiction, Apparition Literary Magazine, and GigaNotoSaurus. Jeff works for Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, home of New Horizons, Parker Solar Probe, and the upcoming Dragonfly mission to Titan. Unfortunately, he’s just a software licensing […]

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Lars Ahn

Lars Ahn is an award-winning author from Denmark. His latest short story collection was named The Best Danish Horror Publication of the Year, and he is a two-time winner of the Niels Klim Award for best science fiction short story in Danish. His English-language short fiction has appeared in James Gunn’s Ad Astra and in […]

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Ruthanna Emrys

Ruthanna Emrys lives in a mysterious manor house on the outskirts of Washington, DC with her wife and their large, strange family. Her stories have appeared in a number of venues, including Strange Horizons, Analog, and Tor.com. She is the author of the Innsmouth Legacy series, which began with Winter Tide. She makes home-made vanilla, […]

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David DeGraff

David DeGraff taught physics and astronomy at Alfred University in Alfred, NY. In addition to the usual physics and astronomy classes, he also taught classes on the Theory and Practice of Time Travel, the science in Star Trek, Doctor Who, Harry Potter, Superheroes, and Supervillains. His fiction has appeared in Lightspeed, The Magazine of Fantasy […]

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