J.S. Watts is a British poet, novelist and short story writer. Born in London, she now lives and writes in East Anglia. In between, she read English at Somerville College, Oxford and spent many years working in the UK education sector. Her poetry, short stories and non-fiction appear in publications in Britain, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the States and have been broadcast on BBC and independent Radio. She has edited assorted magazines and anthologies. Her poetry collections, "Cats and Other Myths", "Years Ago You Coloured Me" and "Underword", plus the multi-award nominated poetry pamphlet, "Songs of Steelyard Sue" are published by Lapwing Publications. Her poetry pamphlet, "The Submerged Sea", is published by Dempsey & Windle. Her novels, "A Darker Moon" - dark literary fantasy, "Witchlight", "Old Light" & "Elderlight"- the urban fantasy Witchlight series, are published by Vagabondage Press.

Ian Whates lives in a comfortable home down a quiet cul-de-sac in an idyllic Cambridgeshire village, which he shares with his partner Helen and their pets – Honey the golden cocker spaniel, Calvin the tailless black cat and Inky the goldfish (sadly, Binky died a few years ago). Ian’s earliest memories of science fiction are fragmented. He remembers loving Dr Who from an early age and other TV shows such as Lost in Space and Star Trek, but a defining moment came when he heard a radio adaptation of John Wyndham’s The Chrysalids. From that moment on he was hooked and became a frequent haunter of the local library, voraciously devouring the contents of their SF section. This early love of science fiction manifested most tellingly during his school days, when he produced an SF murder mystery as homework after being set the essay title “The Language of Shakespeare”, much to the bemusement of his English teacher. Ian’s first published stories appeared in the late 1980s in small press magazines such as Dream and New Moon Quarterly, after which he took a break from writing in order to research his chosen fields of science fiction and fantasy. In other words, he read copious amounts of both. Clearly the research was extensive, because he published nothing further for some seventeen years. In the early 2000s he made the decision to pursue writing seriously, joining the Northampton SF Writers Group in 2004 after being introduced to its chairman, Ian Watson. In 2006 he started submitting stories again, and has subsequently been surprised at how many otherwise eminently sensible people have chosen to publish him. A couple have even appeared in the science journal Nature, and one, “The Gift of Joy”, even found its way onto the five-strong shortlist for best short story in the British Science Fiction Association Awards. And it didn’t come last! Ironically, the award was actually won by Ken MacLeod’s “Lighting Out”, a piece Ian had commissioned, edited and published in the NewCon Press anthology disLOCATIONS (2007). In 2006 Ian launched independent publisher NewCon Press, quite by accident (buy him a pint sometime and he’ll tell you about it). Through NewCon he has been privileged to publish original stories from some of the biggest names in genre fiction, as well as provide debuts to some genuinely talented newcomers. The books, their covers and contents have racked up an impressive array of credits – four BSFA Awards, one BSF Award to date, inclusion in ‘Year’s Best’ anthologies and recommendations and honourable mentions from the likes of Gardner Dozios and Locus magazine. In addition to his publishing and writing, Ian is currently a director of both the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) and the British Science Fiction Association (BSFA), editing Matrix, the online news and media reviews magazine, for the latter. His first two completed novels are both due to appear in early 2010: City of Dreams and Nightmare via Harper Collins’ imprint Angry Robot, and The Noise Within from Rebellion imprint Solaris, with sequels to follow. When not pinching himself to make sure this is all really happening, Ian is currently beavering away at the sequels… honest!

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Presumably a person, occasionally a table. I write stories.

I'm a British writer of SF and fantasy stories (mainly the former), examples of which have been published in Interzone, Postscripts, End of an Aeon, Daily Science Fiction, Nature Futures and Music for Another World, amongst others. I've seen translations of my stories in Hebrew and Polish publications. Recently I've started "reprinting" some of my published stories in ebook editions. You can find links to them here. Needless to say, I'm working on a series of novels. It's been described as being a cross between apocalyptic pulp and modern hard science fiction. I take that as a compliment. Like most writers, I adore cats. Recently, one has appointed me and my partner as its servants.

Iain M. Banks is a pseudonym of Iain Banks which he used to publish his Science Fiction. Banks' father was an officer in the Admiralty and his mother was once a professional ice skater. Iain Banks was educated at the University of Stirling where he studied English Literature, Philosophy and Psychology. He moved to London and lived in the south of England until 1988 when he returned to Scotland, living in Edinburgh and then Fife. Banks met his wife Annie in London, before the release of his first book. They married in Hawaii in 1992. However, he announced in early 2007 that, after 25 years together, they had separated. He lived most recently in North Queensferry, a town on the north side of the Firth of Forth near the Forth Bridge and the Forth Road Bridge. As with his friend Ken MacLeod (another Scottish writer of technical and social science fiction) a strong awareness of left-wing history shows in his writings. The argument that an economy of abundance renders anarchy and adhocracy viable (or even inevitable) attracts many as an interesting potential experiment, were it ever to become testable. He was a signatory to the Declaration of Calton Hill, which calls for Scottish independence. In late 2004, Banks was a prominent member of a group of British politicians and media figures who campaigned to have Prime Minister Tony Blair impeached following the 2003 invasion of Iraq. In protest he cut up his passport and posted it to 10 Downing Street. In an interview in Socialist Review he claimed he did this after he "abandoned the idea of crashing my Land Rover through the gates of Fife dockyard, after spotting the guys armed with machine guns." He related his concerns about the invasion of Iraq in his book Raw Spirit, and the principal protagonist (Alban McGill) in the novel The Steep Approach to Garbadale confronts another character with arguments in a similar vein. Interviewed on Mark Lawson's BBC Four series, first broadcast in the UK on 14 November 2006, Banks explained why his novels are published under two different names. His parents wished to name him Iain Menzies Banks but his father made a mistake when registering the birth and he was officially registered as Iain Banks. Despite this he continued to use his unofficial middle name and it was as Iain M. Banks that he submitted The Wasp Factory for publication. However, his editor asked if he would mind dropping the 'M' as it appeared "too fussy". The editor was also concerned about possible confusion with Rosie M. Banks, a minor character in some of P.G. Wodehouse's Jeeves novels who is a romantic novelist. After his first three mainstream novels his publishers agreed to publish his first SF novel, Consider Phlebas. To distinguish between the mainstream and SF novels, Banks suggested the return of the 'M', although at one stage he considered John B. Macallan as his SF pseudonym, the name deriving from his favourite whiskies: Johnnie Walker Black Label and The Macallan single malt. His latest book was a science fiction (SF) novel in the Culture series, called The Hydrogen Sonata, published in 2012. Author Iain M. Banks revealed in April 2013 that he had late-stage cancer. He died the following June. The Scottish writer posted a message on his official website saying his next novel The Quarry, due to be published later this year*, would be his last. *The Quarry was published in June 2013.

I'm Maya Chhabra, author of Chiara in the Dark, a a YA verse novel about OCD, and Stranger on the Home Front, a historical middle grade novel about Punjabi immigration and WWI. https://mayachhabra.com/bibliography/ You can read my short fiction at PodCastle, Cast of Wonders, Daily Science Fiction, and more. My poetry has appeared at Strange Horizons, among many other venues. My translation of Tsvetaeva's Fortune is available in Cardinal Points. My novelette Walking on Knives, published by Less Than Three Press, is currently out of print. Views are mine and not those of my employer.

Benjamin Dodds is a Sydney-based poet who grew up in the Riverina of New South Wales. ​ His work has appeared in Best Australian Poems, Stars Like Sand: Australian Speculative Poetry, Meanjin, Southerly, Cordite, Rabbit, The Sun Herald and The Australian, and has also been broadcast on ABC Radio National. ​ Benjamin co-developed and co-judged the inaugural Quantum Words Science Poetry Competition associated with Writing NSW’s 2018 science-writing festival of the same name. He is also a poetry reader for Overland.

I’m a Scottish Jamaican poet, SFF writer, and arts programmer based in Scotland. She/her Debut poetry collection Time Cleaves Itself out July 2024 from Peepal Tree Press! My work often traverses/reflects the ‘in between’ and explores the intersections of be/longing, (intergenerational) memory, illness and disability, secrecy and survival. I love weaving my heritage languages of Scots, Geordie and Patois with English, and creating magical realist or science-fictional worlds. Lets link up via LinkTree :) My writing has been shortlisted for the Sky Arts RSL Award and longlisted for the Women Poets’ Prize (2022), and exhibited in art installations including Windrush Legacy Creative Reflections (2023), Caledonian Biotech Library, 3033 (Scottish Storytelling Centre, 2022) and Acts of Observation (Collective, 2021). More info + blog on my website.

W. G. White (known to friends, family, colleagues, strangers, monsters, and other non-human entities as ‘Will’) is arguably a human with ten fingers and just as many toes. He uses these limbs to craft odd fables concerning monster-catering hairdressers, magic mushy peas, puppet-hating puppeteers, and other such enjoyable nonsense. He lives on Earth (for now) with his human fiancée and non-human dog. He is not an alien.

Originally from sunny California, L.R. Lam now lives in cloudy Scotland. Lam is a Sunday Times Bestselling author whose work includes epic fantasy romance Dragonfall (The Dragon Scales Trilogy), the near-future space thriller, Goldilocks, feminist space opera Seven Devils and Seven Mercies (co-written with Elizabeth May), BBC Radio 2 Book Club section False Hearts, the companion novel Shattered Minds, and the award-winning Micah Grey series: Pantomime, Shadowplay, and Masquerade. Their short fiction and essays have appeared in anthologies such as Nasty Women, Solaris Rising 3, Cranky Ladies of History, Scotland in Space, and more. Their romance alter ego is Laura Ambrose. Lam lectures part-time at Edinburgh Napier University and is Programme Leader of the Creative Writing MA. *Please note I don't read my GR mail*

Elizabeth Dulemba, a.k.a. "e", has been an author, illustrator, teacher and speaker (including TED) for most of her career. She has over two-dozen books to her credit, including her debut novel, A Bird on Water Street, winner of 13 literary awards, including Georgia Author of the Year. She taught Illustration at the University of Georgia, and writing and illustration courses at various locations around the country. She spent several years as Illustrator Coordinator for the southern region of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators and as a Board Member for the Georgia Center for the Book. Through these roles she created annual Illustrator's Day conferences, gallery shows, regional and state-wide awards, and scholarship programs, connecting the local community and helping hundreds of up-and-coming creatives. Before going freelance, e was a corporate Art Director and in-house illustrator for several industries, packaging, and communication firms. Elizabeth grew up in the American south where she received a BFA in Graphic Design from the University of Georgia. She also holds an MFA with Distinction in Illustration from the University of Edinburgh and is currently a PhD Researcher at the University of Glasgow (Scotland). In the summers she travels to Roanoke, Virginia where she is Visiting Associate Professor at Hollins University in the MFA in Writing and Illustrating Children's Books low-residency program. There, she teaches Picture Book Design and Beginning and Advanced Photoshop™.

Catherine's latest work is the novel 'Naked Gardening for the Over-Fifties. Previous works include the biography, 'My Hidden Mother', the novels 'Serpentine', 'Small Poisons' and 'Bacchus Wynd', and the poetry collections 'How to Win at King's Cross' and 'wormwood, earth and honey'. Catherine trained as a classical musician at Dartington College of Arts and Goldsmith's College, London, and pursued a career as a classical musician before reinventing herself as an artist, writer and folk/rock fiddler player. She is now a prolific poet and novelist, with over 100s of individual published pieces to her name, as well as a portrait artist and illustrator. She

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information. Adam Roberts (born 1965) is an academic, critic and novelist. He also writes parodies under the pseudonyms of A.R.R.R. Roberts, A3R Roberts and Don Brine. He also blogs at The Valve, a group blog devoted to literature and cultural studies. He has a degree in English from the University of Aberdeen and a PhD from Cambridge University on Robert Browning and the Classics. He teaches English literature and creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. Adam Roberts has been nominated twice for the Arthur C. Clarke Award: in 2001, for his debut novel, Salt, and in 2007, for Gradisil.

Ken MacLeod is an award-winning Scottish science fiction writer. His novels have won the Prometheus Award and the BSFA award, and been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula Awards. He lives near Edinburgh, Scotland. MacLeod graduated from Glasgow University with a degree in zoology and has worked as a computer programmer and written a masters thesis on biomechanics. His novels often explore socialist, communist and anarchist political ideas, most particularly the variants of Trotskyism and anarcho-capitalism or extreme economic libertarianism. Technical themes encompass singularities, divergent human cultural evolution and post-human cyborg-resurrection.

T.D. Walker is the author of Small Waiting Objects (CW Books 2019). Her science fiction poems and stories have appeared in Strange Horizons, The Future Fire, Web Conjunctions, The Cascadia Subduction Zone, Recompose, Abyss & Apex, Kaleidotrope, and elsewhere. After completing graduate work in English Literature, Walker began her career as a software developer. She draws on both her grounding in literary studies and her experience as a computer programmer in writing poetry and fiction.

My latest book is Victories Greater Than Death. Coming in August: Never Say You Can't Survive: How to Get Through Hard Times By Making Up Stories. Previously: All the Birds in the Sky, The City in the Middle of the Night, and a short story collection, Six Months, Three Days, Five Others. Coming soon: An adult novel, and a short story collection called Even Greater Mistakes. I used to write for a site called io9.com, and now I write for various places here and there. I won the Emperor Norton Award, for “extraordinary invention and creativity unhindered by the constraints of paltry reason.” I've also won a Hugo Award, a Nebula Award, a William H. Crawford Award, a Theodore Sturgeon Award, a Locus Award and a Lambda Literary Award. My stories, essays and journalism have appeared in Wired Magazine, the Boston Review, Conjunctions, Tin House, Slate, MIT Technology Review, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the San Francisco Chronicle, Tor.com, Lightspeed Magazine, McSweeney’s, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, ZYZZYVA, Strange Horizons, Apex Magazine, Uncanny Magazine, 3 AM Magazine, Flurb.net, Monkey Bicycle, Pindeldyboz, Instant City, Broken Pencil, and in tons and tons of anthologies. I organize Writers With Drinks, which is a monthly reading series here in San Francisco that mashes up a ton of different genres. I co-host a Hugo Award-winning podcast, Our Opinions Are Correct, with Annalee Newitz. Back in 2007, Annalee and I put out a book of first-person stories by female geeks called She’s Such a Geek: Women Write About Science, Technology and Other Nerdy Stuff. There was a lot of resistance to doing this book, because nobody believed there was a market for writing about female geeks. Also, Annalee and I put out a print magazine called other, which was about pop culture, politics and general weirdness, aimed at people who don’t fit into other categories. To raise money for other magazine, we put on events like a Ballerina Pie Fight – which is just what it sounds like – and a sexy show in a hair salon where people took off their clothes while getting their hair cut. I used to live in a Buddhist nunnery, when I was a teenager. I love to do karaoke. I eat way too much spicy food. I hug trees and pat stone lions for luck. I talk to myself way too much when I’m working on a story.

I'm Editor-in-Chief of Science Fiction magazine, Shoreline of Infinity (www.shorelineofinfinity.com), published in Scotland. I've been a reader for as long as I can remember, my tastes tending towards the fantastical rather than the realistic. After all, isn't that the point of a story, to be taken to a different place? Science Fiction and fantasy is where I have lived and dreamed since I first read Grimm's Stories. My teenage years were spent absorbing every word I could find by the likes of Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, Wyndham, Bradbury, McCaffrey, LeGuin, Moorcock, Ballard, Priest. I loved the early stuff from the 30s and 40s with writers such as E E Smith, Olaf Stapledon and the many other writers who earned their keeping bashing away at typewriters in dark, dust attics. And my enjoyment in SF continues unabated with the writings of Stephen Baxter, Charles Stross, Ken MacLeod, Eric Brown, Peter Hamilton. And many more. Many, many more. I've written on and off over the years, dabbling in SF as a teenager when I had some stories published in fanzines. I have recently returned to the words with greater relish, and have released a couple of small collection of tales based on my adopted home town of Edinburgh. I was shortlisted for a short crime story competition for Bloody Scotland, and the story is available, along with its fellow shortlistees, as an ebook published by Blasted Heath.

Eric Brown was born in Haworth, West Yorkshire, in 1960, and has lived in Australia, India and Greece. He began writing in 1975, influenced by Agatha Christie and the science fiction writer Robert Silverberg. Since then he has written over forty-five books and published over a hundred and twenty short stories, selling his first story in 1986 and his first novel in 1992. He has written a dozen books for children; young adult titles as well as books for reluctant readers. He has been nominated for the British Science Fiction Award five times, winning it twice for his short stories in 2000 and 2002. His work has been translated into sixteen languages and he writes a monthly science fiction review column for the Guardian. His hobbies include collecting books and cooking (particularly Indian curries). He lives in Dunbar, East Lothian, with his wife and daughter.

Anne Charnock's novel DREAMS BEFORE THE START OF TIME is the winner of the 2018 Arthur C. Clarke Award, and was shortlisted for the BSFA 2017 Best Novel Award. Her latest novel, BRIDGE 108, is written in the same world as her debut novel, A CALCULATED LIFE—a finalist for the 2013 Philip K. Dick and The Kitschies Golden Tentacle Awards. SLEEPING EMBERS OF AN ORDINARY MIND, her second novel, was named by The Guardian as one of the Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2015 Anne Charnock's journalism has appeared in New Scientist, The Guardian, Financial Times, International Herald Tribune and Geographical. She was educated at the University of East Anglia, where she studied Environmental Sciences, and at The Manchester School of Art, England where she gained a Masters in Fine Art. As a foreign correspondent, she travelled widely in Africa, the Middle East and India and spent a year overlanding through Egypt, Sudan and Kenya. http://www.annecharnock.com http://www.twitter.com/annecharnock Author photo by Marzena Pogorzaly

Gary Gibson's first novel, Angel Stations, was published in 2004. Interzone called it "dense and involving, puzzling and perplexing. It's unabashed science fiction, with an almost "Golden Age" feel to it ..." His second novel was Against Gravity in 2005; the Guardian described it as "building on current trends to produce a convincing picture of the world in 2096." Stealing Light was first published in 2007, and garnered a wide range of positive reviews. The London Times called it: "A violent, inventive, relentlessly gripping adventure ... intelligently written and thought-provoking". Stealing Light is the first volume in a four-book space opera, the final volume of which, Marauder, was published in 2013. To date, Gary has written ten novels, most recently Extinction Game and its sequel, Survival Game.

Ken Poyner is a writer of flash fiction and speculative poetry. As of December 2019, his books are “Cordwood”, poetry, 1985; “Sciences, Social”, poetry, 1995; “Constant Animals”, fictions, 2011; “The Book of Robot”, poetry, 2016; “Victims of a Failed Civics”, poetry, 2016; “Avenging Cartography”, fictions, 2017; “The Revenge of the House Hurlers”, fictions, 2018; “Engaging Cattle”, fictions, 2019. “Cordwood” and “Sciences, Social” are out of print, but all the others are available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and other sites, both as paperback and e-books. Individual poems and stories have appeared in “Analog”, “Asimov’s”, “Poet Lore”, “The Alaska Quarterly Review”, “The Indiana Review”, “Café Irreal”, “Rune Bear”, “Menda City Review”, and hundreds of other places. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize many times, as well as a Sidewise Award, multiple Rhysling Awards, and sundry other awards and honors. He has read at Bucknell University, George Washington University, the Bethesda Writers Center, and other venues. His work veers toward the speculative, the surreal, sometimes science fiction, generally the ironic and the unusual.