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Dr. Meg MacDonald @megintransition.bsky.social PhD belief & gods in fantasy @angliaruskin, work in R&D @UofGlasgow, DH Promotions @Glasgowin2024. Tendency to pun-escalate. She/Her Cis/Bi 🌈🏳️🌈
Paul Biba @paulkbiba.bsky.social Editor, Project Gutenberg Facebook page; former Editor-in-Chief of Teleread (the Net's first ebook blog), retired lawyer specializing in international transactions. Over 1 million miles flown on PanAm.
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Michael Hendricks 🇨🇦 @michaelhendricks.bsky.social Biologist, McGill University
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Steve Green @stevegreen.bsky.social British journalist since 1978. Please contact me via necronaut13@gmail.com regarding magazine commissions, on-stage interviews, etc. Strong focus upon vintage media, particularly movies, television and comics.
Catherine Sharp @csharpwords.bsky.social Reader, writer, gamer, chill swimmer, rugby fan, SFF geek, conrunner (currently Chair of Octocon); back in Wales after many years in Ireland. She/her
Helen McCarthy @helenmccarthy51.bsky.social Writer, speaker, poet, scholar, booklover. Posts here on anime, manga, poetry, costume, writing, Japan. Also posts @glider.bsky.social for politics, history, rants, random records etc.
Website helenmccarthy.net
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Russell Smith @rswings.bsky.social JMS PhD scholar at University of Glasgow, and still figuring that out. Multi-nerd comprising history bits, gaming, writing and a few toys too. 
Alina Pete @alinapete.bsky.social (They/them) Award-winning Indigenous (nehiyaw) cartoonist & writer. Editor Indiginerds, CFFT: North America, Life Finds A Way, Weregeek
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Baldur Bjarnason @baldurbjarnason.com Writer, web developer and consultant based in Hveragerði, Iceland. Lapsed Interactive Media Academic. Webby Tech Stuff and webby book stuff.
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https://softwarecrisis.dev/
Emma Newman @emmanewman.bsky.social SFF author (Planetfall sequence, Split Worlds series, The Vengeance), audiobook narrator, podcaster, tea drinker. Loves LARP, dressmaking and nerdery. Co-host of the Starship Alexandria podcast. www.linktr.ee/emma_newman
Sam Seder @samseder.bsky.social Host MajorityReport
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social Artist
Coldwarsteve.com
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Senior Fellow at the American Immigration Council. Commenting generally on immigration law and policy. Retweets =/= endorsements, views are my own.
Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social AI correspondent at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social Editor and CEO, Zeteo
Author, ‘Win Every Argument’
British-American
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social Temerty Professor of Modern European History, Munk School, University of Toronto; Permanent Fellow, IWM Vienna; Emeritus Levin Professor, Yale. Author of "On Freedom," "On Tyranny," "Our Malady," "Road to Unfreedom," "Black Earth," and "Bloodlands"
Angstipated™ @angstipated.bsky.social I #FollowBack, if I like what you stand for. #LeftIsBest No DMs por favor...
Political refugee escaping 1933 to 1945-esque Xwitter. Expert Attention Deficit Disorderer...
The Frenemy Of My Frenemy, Is My Frenemy. Thank god I'm an atheist ;)
Emma Vigeland @emmavigeland.bsky.social Co-host of The Majority Report @majorityreport.bsky.social
Tibs @tibs.bsky.social Developer Educator. Science Fiction fan. Long term user of Python and reStructuredText.
@much_of_a in the other places
they/them or he/him
Wil Wheaton ❌👑 @wilwheaton.net New York Times bestselling author and audiobook narrator.
Host of It's Storytime with Wil Wheaton
Retired Starfleet officer.
Husband, father, Traveler.
Nazi punks fuck off.
Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social Daily #ShareGoodNewsToo
Novelist (SF & fantasy), historian (UChicago Renaissance, censorship, radical thought), composer (filk, Norse myth), disability (chronic pain), manga/anime (Tezuka), pics #SomethingBeautiful Blog exurbe.com Podcast “Beforecast”
Guillermo del Toro @realgdt.bsky.social I make movies. I watch movies. I love movies.
Kate ⭐🦋 @kate-wood.bsky.social Viking enthusiast, phd student, British Museum and Museum of Cambridge volunteer, romance and fantasy reader, writer and editor, con-goer and conrunner, and crafter. (she/they) (storygraph: kate_wood)
Leah Reich @leahreich.com Writer, researcher, tech industry survivor, tennis obsessive 🎾, and fortunate to live with Lumpy, the greatest cat in the universe
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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com CTO at Bluesky. Not a nerd.
Andrew Trembley 🏳️🌈 (he/him) @bovil.bsky.social Geek, freak, reader, essayist, costumer, critic, media-junkie, biker, pervert, party-queen, troublemaker, FAN.
fedi: bovil@wandering.shop
John Bray @vicarage1.bsky.social Fandom and forts
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Paul Heskett @paulheskett.bsky.social Known to some as a Musician, called dad by three, enjoys real ale, craic with friends, live music (of course), astronomy, astrobiology, science fiction…and I’m still accumulating more books than I’ll ever read…
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Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com Engineer | Writer | Editor
Enjoyer of Equations, Ideas & Assorted Nonsenses
Hugo, Nebula, Locus & Caine Prize finalist
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Paul Oldroyd @paul-oldroyd.bsky.social Retired former charity worker, now living in Spain.
Joseph Nicholas @larklander.bsky.social Mostly human. Also a gardener.
Tammy Coxen @tammylc.bsky.social 2026 Hugo Awards administrator. Booze and cocktail history nerd. I host the My Tiny Bottles podcast & YouTube series (mytinybottles.com), and teach cocktail classes online and in-person as Tammy's Tastings (tammystastings.com).
Colin Speirs 🌧️🏴 @dampscot.bsky.social Husband, carer, IT bod, plays & tries to write RPGs & Wargames
RPGs
Chivalry & Sorcery
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Vis Imperium Victoriana
Free RPGs
Essence Core
Straight to Video
With Spell & Blaster
Tales from an Ancient Empire
Conrunner 2042
The Vigil
@warriorseamstress.bsky.social @warriorseamstress.bsky.social Costuming Steampunk Rococopunk Medievalist feminist SF fan. Passionate about democracy (warts & all). Hate fascism & what feeds it: so no bros, racists, tankies, dinghyshriekers, rabbitholers etc. No DMs unless I know you personally. Vive l'humanité.
TPauOfVulcan @tpauofvulcan.bsky.social Streamer, UX researcher, crafter, fiber-artist, spinner, knitter, gamer, nerd
Planorama Events @planoramaevents.org Convention Planning Software
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Gail/RGB (she/they) @gailbear.bsky.social ZCB, CBS W'boro, CBS Nerds, [E], JWG(KMCRD), Planorama.
Codes, sings, crafts, plays tabletop games, watches sports (go sox)! Cares about way too many things. Lifelong Bostonian.
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
Open Knowledge Foundation @okfn.bsky.social We provide services, tools and training to build a world open by design where all knowledge is accessible to everyone.
#TheTechWeWant #OpenDataEditor #OpenDataCommons #SchoolOfData #CKAN
Doctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social nerd with narrative disorder • humanitarian • sociopunk • evidence-based creativity • speculative resistance • predictive fictions • INFOMOCRACY • THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES • …AND OTHER DISASTERS • GlobalVoices.org • opinions my own
Paul Cornell @paulcornell.bsky.social Writer of SFF in TV, books, comics, audio and games! (Doctor Who, Saucer Country, Lychford.) Editor-in-Chief: Cosmic Lighthouse Comics. https://www.cosmiclighthouse.co.uk/ He/him. #comics #sciencefiction #doctorwho
Tony Keen @tonykeen58.bsky.social Teacher/academic/classicist/critic/reviewer/sf fan. Writes on classical reception & popular culture, comics, & Doctor Who. Available for talks. UK. He/him. Professor!
Darlene Marshall 🦜🏴☠️💙📚 @darlenemarshall.bsky.social Award-winning historical romance, mostly about pirates, privateers, smugglers, and the occasional possum. Fan of good whisky & dark chocolate, Membership Dir. at Regency Fiction Writers. Represented by RosenbergLit. https://linktr.ee/darlenemarshallauthor
Xopher Halftongue RESISTS! @halftongue.bsky.social Opinionated heterochromic homosexual hemiglossic. He/him. Cis. Soyboy. Views my own. Tolerance is a social contract; if you're intolerant I don't have to tolerate you. No LGB without the TQ+. Sine homines gaudere rebus. #BLM No hands but ours 👍👎.
Martha Wells @marthawells.com SF/F Writer - The Books of the Raksura, The Murderbot Diaries, Witch King, Queen Demon, and more. Nebula and Hugo Award winner. NYT and Sunday Times Bestseller. (She/her) Agent: Jennifer Jackson
Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social Writer: Rosewater, Murders of Molly Southbourne, Far from the Light of Heaven, Making Wolf, Jackdaw and others.
Arthur C. Clarke and BSFA award winner, Hugo finalist, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Etc.
Reading worm.
Opinions mine.
He/him
Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey @beamjockey.bsky.social Physicist at large. Speaker. Writer. Mono-instrumentalist.
Spaceflight, astronomy, history of science, science fiction, & jokes thereof.
Avatar: Bill Heterodyne, smiling & tipping his boater, by Phil Foglio.
Banner: Me, infinitely reflected in mirrors.
David D. Levine @daviddlevine.com Hugo- and Nebula-winning writer of THE KUIPER BELT JOB, the ARABELLA OF MARS trilogy, and over 60 science fiction and fantasy stories. He/him.
Liz Batty @lizbatty.bsky.social Crisp-loving nerd and swim headphones influencer. Bioinformatician and molecular microbiologist focused on tropical diseases. Live in Bangkok, do a podcast, drink coffee, go to the beach.
Moshe Feder @mimeoman.bsky.social Superannuated Nice Jewish Boy & native New Yorker. Edits SF and Fantasy, and not quite retired. Loves cats. Proud liberal Democrat & Zionist. Authenticity pedant. I’m a born maven trying to always be a mensch. Happy new resident of Naugatuck, CT.
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social Rabbi/award-winning author.
🌱 Ancient tools for healing + justice: LifeIsASacredText.com
(Always! 100% human-authored + NAZI-FREE!):
New 📚 On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World.
💥 Collective liberation or bust.
she/her
Su J Sokol (xe, xyr) @cycling2asylum.bsky.social Writer of speculative and interstitial fiction; social rights activist, VP 2024; Cycling to Asylum/Les lignes invisible (longlisted for the Sunburst ), Run J Run, Zee, Invisible Line and Five Points on an Invisible Line🌈
Maura McHugh @splinister.bsky.social Writer. Works across media. Lives in the West of Ireland.
https://splinister.com/easylinks 
SF Encyclopedia @sfencyclopedia.bsky.social The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction -- founded 1979, Hugo winner for 1979, 1993 and 2011 editions, now free online at https://sf-encyclopedia.com/ with principal editors John Clute and David Langford.
Stephen Gallagher @stephengallagher.co.uk Doctor Who. BUGS. That creepy monster thing you might remember. Creator of Eleventh Hour and lead writer on Crusoe www.stephengallagher.com
James Shields @lostcarpark.bsky.social Software developer, sci-fi fan, LEGO builder, general nerd, tinkerer.- J jonesnori @jonesnori.bsky.social
Phil Dyson @phildyson.bsky.social The rain sounds like bells, the plastic covered cars swim totally fine.
I used to study wars but I don't any more. Leftie. Conrunner. Cats. 90s guitar music. If you're a TERF, fuck off
Alison Scott @bohemiancoast.bsky.social Podcaster, GUFF delegate, Hugo winner, avid idler. 
@smofbabe.bsky.social @smofbabe.bsky.social 
Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com Amateur gardener. Professional ad copywriter. Award-winning novelist | THESE SAVAGE STARS (March 16, 2027) PRE-ORDER NOW | patreon.com/kameronhurley | Newsletter: http://bit.ly/42qnhkx | kameronhurley.com
Paolo Bacigalupi @paolobacigalupi.bsky.social Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award winner. Micheal L Printz Award winner. National Book Award finalist.
Wrote NAVOLA, THE WINDUP GIRL, THE WATER KNIFE, and SHIP BREAKER, among others.
windupstories.com
Ming @monkeyking.bsky.social