Alex Shvartsman is a writer, editor, and translator from Brooklyn, NY. He's the author of The Middling Affliction (2022) and Eridani's Crown (2019) fantasy novels. Kakistocracy, a sequel to The Middling Affliction, is forthcoming in 2023. Over 120 of his stories have been published in Analog, Nature, Strange Horizons, and many other venues. He won the 2014 WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction and was a two-time finalist (2015 and 2017) for the Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Fiction. His collection, Explaining Cthulhu to Grandma and Other Stories and his steampunk humor novella H. G. Wells, Secret Agent were published in 2015. His second collection, The Golem of Deneb Seven and Other Stories followed in 2018. Alex is the editor of over a dozen anthologies, including the Unidentified Funny Objects annual anthology series of humorous SF/F.

Taiyo Fujii (藤井太洋 Fujii Taiyō?) (born 1971 in Amami Ōshima) is a Japanese science fiction writer. Awards 2015: Nihon SF Taisho for Orbital Cloud 2015: Seiun Award Japanese Long Form for Orbital Cloud Works English translations, long form[edit] Gene Mapper (2015), translation of Gene Mapper—full build— (2013) English translations, short form "Violation of the TrueNet Security Act" (2015), translation of "Koraborēshon" (コラボレーション?) (2012) "A Fair War" (2016), translation of "Kōseiteki sentō kihan" (公正的戦闘規範?) (2015)