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Wole Talabi

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 […]

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Jason Ridler

Jason S. Ridler is a writer, improv actor, and historian. He is the author of A Triumph for Sakura, Blood and Sawdust, the Spar Battersea thrillers and has published more than sixty stories in such magazines and anthologies as The Big Click, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Out of the Gutter, and more. He also writes the […]

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Kristine Smith

Kristine Smith is the author of the Jani Kilian series and other science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories. Her fiction has been nominated for the Locus Award for First Novel, Philip K. Dick Memorial Award and the IAFA William L. Crawford Fantasy Award, and she was the 2001 winner of the John W. […]

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Nghi Vo

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. […]

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Peter Watts

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) […]

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Rudy Rucker

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 […]

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Patricia Strand

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.

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Andy Duncan

Andy Duncan is a winner of the Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award and a three-time winner of the World Fantasy Award for his short fiction, much of which is collected into the volumes Beluthahatchie and Other Stories (2000) and The Pottawatomie Giant and Other Stories (2011). Born in Batesburg, South Carolina, he lives in Maryland.

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V.E. Schwab

V.E. Schwab’s first adult novel, Vicious, debuted to critical praise and reader accolades. Besides her Shades of Magic series (which began with the dazzling A Darker Shade of Magic), Schwab is the author of YA novels, along with writing Middle Grade for Scholastic. The Independent calls Schwab “the natural successor to Diana Wynne Jones” and […]

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Craig DeLancey

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. […]

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