Camestros Felapton @camestrosf.bsky.social Two-time Hugo Award Finalist
Author of Debarkle: a history of the Sad Puppies https://camestrosfelapton.wordpress.com/debarkle/
And The Hugosauriad: an analysis of the Hugo Award via dinosaurs https://camestrosfelapton.wordpress.com/hugosauriad/
Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social Minnesota guy.
"This particular activist will not stop." Sen. Chris Murphy
Rep. Adam Smith @adamsmith.house.gov Representative for Washington State's 9th District.
Viable Paradise @viableparadise.bsky.social The writing workshop you've been looking for! https://viableparadise.com
Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning and USA Today best-selling author, narrator, and professional puppeteer. Also has a talking cat. Latest title: Apprehension.
Nick Harkaway @nickharkaway.com Author. Also husband, dad, clothing-repairer, dog-walker. Decreasingly rigorous on social media. Taking a break for the summer. Contact Patrick Walsh @ PEW Literary in London or email me.
www.linktr.ee/harkaway
He/him
R. K. Duncan @rkduncan.bsky.social Fat queer polyamorous wizard and SFF author.
He/him. Abolish the police.
I am not a Catholic Priest.
I do not absolve you.
Write your own email.
Stories: https://www.rkduncan-author.com/
Monthly newsletter with poem: https://www.rkduncan-author.com/signup
Macey Levington @macey.bsky.social SRE by day, writer by night, tea-fueled queer forest cryptid at all hours. words at englishmace.com, rep'd by Kurestin Armada, writes as Macey Levington & Jennifer Mace. the cloud is, alas, my fault once again >:(
Sam Leigh @goblinmixtape.bsky.social They/She. Award-winning TTRPG designer of Blinking Birch Games. Author of Anamnesis and Outliers. Freelance writer and editor.
Website: blinkingbirchgames.com
Itch: blinkingbirchgames.itch.io
Logo: @alderdoodle.bsky.social
PFP: @nebuleeart.bsky.social
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
Scott Lynch @scottlynch78.bsky.social 48, fantasy writer, author of THE LIES OF LOCKE LAMORA. Ex-firefighter, veteran MechWarrior. Minnesotan transplanted to Massachusetts. Gizmonic Institute (1989-92). Instructor at Viable Paradise.
Olivia Atwater @oliviaatwater.com Whimsical historical fantasy author and satirist. Wary of faeries and fond of pineapples. Author of Half a Soul. Wife of Nicholas Atwater.🇨🇦
https://oliviaatwater.com
https://patreon.com/atwater_authors
rep: Christabel McKinley @ David Higham
Lee Mandelo @leemandelo.bsky.social phd in gender studies - writer of books (Summer Sons, Feed Them Silence, The Woods All Black, and anthology Amplitudes: Stories of Queer and Trans Futurity)- he/him
@hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social Phoenix Guide to Strange England: #Hookland. Run by David Southwell
#Hauntology Re-wilding #Folklore #FolkHorror #Psychogeography #LandscapePunk Re-enchantment Is Resistance https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068598123
AMR - Alexis Mercedes Rinck @alexis4seattle.bsky.social Renter, Latina, girl on the bus, ex-waitress, current Seattle City Councilmember for Position 8.
Sequoia Nagamatsu @sequoian.bsky.social Prof & Writer - How High We Go in the Dark, a National Bestseller and NYT Editors’ Choice & Where We Go When All We Were is Gone. Minneapolis by way of the SF Bay Area and Hawai’i http://SequoiaNagamatsu.com - Star Trek 💫 and wristwatch ⌚️ obsessed.
B. Morris Allen @bmorrisallen.com Writer, editor, and publisher @metaphorosis.com, long-time vegan, based in Oregon.
Tofu-eating woke-rista.- R Rebecca Campbell @rebeccacampbell.bsky.social I write weird stories. Find me at whereishere.ca.
Terry Brooks @terrybrooks.bsky.social I write non-fiction about Elves. Galaphile, my new Shannara novel, publishes March 11, 2025.
Nisi Shawl @nisishawl.bsky.social Writer editor singer songer. Self-appointed ALT text Jello Sherriff.
Seanan McGuire @seananmcguire.bsky.social I write books and post too many cat pictures. She/her, only.
Cat Rambo @catrambo.bsky.social They/she. My cats' names are Bruce, Clark, & BabyBear. Nebula award winning F&SF writer/editor/teacher. Snark at your own risk. Located in South Bend, IN. Sometimes I swear. linktr.ee/catrambo
Misha Handman @frivyeti.bsky.social Reader, gamer, and author of "Shadow Stitcher", "Pawns and Phantoms", and various RPG supplements. Happy to chat, discuss new work, or just look at memes. He/Him
(You can find me elsewheres via https://linktr.ee/frivyeti )
Madeleine Roux @authoroux.bsky.social MADELEINE ROUX is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of more than twenty books for teens, adults, and children.
Horror, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Romance, IP
Fonda Lee @fondalee.bsky.social NYT bestselling, World Fantasy Award-winning author of the Green Bone Saga & other books. The Last Contract of Isako out now! Next: Mark of the Warrior (Oct 2026) https://linktr.ee/fondalee
Neal Stephenson @nealstephenson.bsky.social Maker of books and other things
Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social Author of fantasy novels.
Refugee from https://twitter.com/DjangoWexler
My stuff at https://djangowexler.com/
Robin Hobb @robinhobb.bsky.social Writer of fantasy and SF. Gardener. Chicken tender. Dog Person but cat friendly. Washington state USA. Old and getting older. Stay off my lawn! No AI ever. All posts from me.- J Jenrayenstone @jenrayenstone.bsky.social
Philip Harris @solitarymindset.com Design Director and writer. By day, I develop video games. By night, I write urban fantasy and horror novels and screenplays. He/him. Co-chair of Greater Vancouver Chapter of HWA. All opinions my own. http://www.solitarymindset.com
Joanne Rixon @joannerixon.bsky.social They/them. Speculative fiction writer, organizer of the North Seattle Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Meetup, bicyclist
joannerixon.com
wayfarerwriting.wordpress.com
Jeff Soesbe @jeffsoesbe.bsky.social robot software engineer; writer of science fiction and fantasy short stories and plays; theater lover; bike rider and fitness fan; newbie seattle-ite and PNWer; 
Tony Torzillo @tonytorzillo.bsky.social Science Fiction Writer | Author of CHILDREN OF THE YEW (2022) | he/him #scifi #author #writers #technothriller #writingcommunity #books #writerlife
Seattle, Washington
Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) was a celebrated author of novels, children’s books, poetry and essays. This account is managed by her estate.
https://www.ursulakleguin.com/
William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social Author of Neuromancer and, most recently, Agency (still above from “Kill Switch”, The X-Files, Season 5, Episode 11, co-written with Tom Maddox)
Annie Bellet @anniebellet.bsky.social USA Today Bestselling fantasy author, artist, nerd, and armchair medievalist. She/her.
www.anniebellet.com
Shawn Speakman @shawnspeakman.com Writer. Editor. SF&F bookstore owner. Currently writing: Wyrmbane
Wendy N. Wagner 🎃 @wnwagner.bsky.social Stoker nominated horror writer; editor of NIGHTMARE MAGAZINE. Rep'd by Lane Heymont. 🏳️🌈
Portland, OR - plant nerd, foot traveler - she/her, they/them
https://linktr.ee/wendynwagner
Isabel Cañas @isabelcanas.bsky.social Your friendly neighborhood horromance evangelist. Out now: THE HACIENDA & VAMPIRES OF EL NORTE & THE POSSESSION OF ALBA DÍAZ. Up next: THE HOUSE OF GARDENIAS (Dutton Fall ‘26). | Bram Stoker Award Nominee | UChicago PhD
https://www.isabelcanas.com/
Laura Anne Gilman @lauraannegilman.bsky.social Award-winning Writer. Freelance Editor. Introvert with an Attitude. Nominal head of a multi-species household. Olam Chesed Yibaneh, but Han shot first.
New Book: UNCANNY LIES coming 2026
and yes, it's Laura Anne, please and thank you.
Daryl Gregory @darylwriterguy.bsky.social Daryl Gregory, a guy who writes things. WHEN WE WERE REAL out April 1 2025, no foolin'. He/him
Nicola Griffith SHE IS HERE out now! @nicolaz.bsky.social PhD. Novelist (Hild, Spear, Menewood). All things Early Medieval. Here: Cats, crips, queers. Books, beauty, beers. MS ♿️🧪📚
MUTING THOSE WHO DON’T ALT-TEXT
nicolagriffith.com
Banner ID: B&W image—pint of Guinness flanked by 2 books flanked by 2 tabby cat
Eileen Gunn * Keep hovering to play. * @eileengunn.bsky.social "You can dream the American Dream, but you sleep with the lights on and wake up with a scream...."
–– Warren Zevon
Science fiction writer, radarangel, apophenista.
www.eileengunn.com
Lish McBride @lishmcbride.bsky.social Former indie bookseller and cursed object, current feral goblin bard spinning coffee and spite into books about necromancers, werewolves, and delightful weirdos. (She/her)
https://linktr.ee/lishmcbride
Scotto Moore @scotto.org He/him; author: WILD MASSIVE, BATTLE OF THE LINGUIST MAGES, and YOUR FAVORITE BAND CANNOT SAVE YOU on Tordotcom - Newsletter: https://buttondown.com/scottomoore - Visit scenic scotto.org 
Matt Ruff @bymattruff.bsky.social Author of Lovecraft Country, Fool on the Hill, Bad Monkeys, and various other novels.
https://www.bymattruff.com
Jasmine Silvera @jassilvera.bsky.social Writes about stories about the things that go bump in the night...including headboards.
Inveterate Gemini
Oatmeal cookie apologist
Latest Release: Charming Dawn, Tooth & Spell Book Three!
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.
Travis Baldree @travisbaldree.bsky.social NYT Bestselling Author: Legends & Lattes. Hugo, Nebula & Locus finalist. Audie winning Narrator. Ex-gamedev - Fate,Torchlight & Rebel Galaxy.
Brigands & Breadknives out Nov 11 '25 from Tor.
travisbaldree.com
Margaret Owen @what-eats-owls.bsky.social doodler, demi, USA Today, Sunday Times, and NYT #1 bestselling author of LITTLE THIEVES, THE MERCIFUL CROW, ROOTBOUND & more ✨ She/her. Rep: Victoria Marini
Candace Robb @candacerobbauthor.bsky.social Slips between medieval York & the Pacific NW without warning. Writer. Owen Archer & Kate Clifford mysteries. Rep'd by @JVNLA Owned by The Maggie. Talks to trees. Reveres crows & owls. Matriarchy now. Seattle Insight she/her www.candacerobbbooks.com
Jasmine Gower @jasminegower.bsky.social Fantasy author (jasminegower.com) and freelance book editor (publishing.jasminegower.com). I am also Normal about video games.
K.G. Anderson @kganderson.bsky.social Seattle-based SF author, humor columnist, cat-herder, practitioner of uncommon sense. SFWA, Codex, Viable Paradise, Taos Toolbox, Two Hour Transport, B Cubed Press. Author of Patti 209. kgsea.substack.com
Ian Donnell Arbuckle @saltboy.bsky.social Speculative fiction writer. He/him. Profile background by @whistberry.bsky.social. New short story collection: https://www.books2read.com/u/boXrpp/
Marshe Summers @skymckinnon.bsky.social Author, Illustrator, seeker of silly shenanigans. I do not use AI at any point. SFW. Barn cat. Genderfluid & PNW. AKA Sky McKinnon & Celeste. Icon taken from commission by Soren49. ♥
R.E. Dukalsky @tiltingwindward.bsky.social Reader first, author second. Post-conflict SF/F, technocrat shenanigans, actions have real consequences, no romantic subplots.
Adam P Knave @adampknave.com Eisner & Harvey award winning editor and writer of comics, prose, and other stuff. Bi chaos gremlin. Lives in Portland, OR with a cat named Pants. Irrationally stans Winnipeg. He/Him https://www.adampknave.com/
Raven Oak @ravenoak.bsky.social Spec Fic Author & Artist. AuDHD queer. Active #SFWA Gamer Geek. Published on the Moon. Disabled ENBY 🏳️⚧️ w/ Long COVID ♿️ (they/them)
Main: http://www.ravenoak.net
SHOP: http://shop.ravenoak.net
Adria Bailton @adriabailton.com Author of SFF/H, published most recently at Pulp Lit Mag, Worlds of Possibility, The Colored Lens,
queer, ND, she/they
Member of SFWA, Codex
See more at www.adriabailton.com
Lore Sjöberg @loresjoberg.bsky.social A nuanced melange of viking and capybara.
Judah Mahay @judahmahay.com Alaskan SFF author who weaves magic into reality and pushes science to the plausible extreme. Professor by day. Hockey player by night. SFWA ✨ Vegan 🌱 Rep’ed by Lukas Ortiz of Spitzer Literary Agency
https://linktr.ee/judahmahay
https://www.judahmahay.com
Sarah Salcedo @sarah-salcedo.com Filmmaker, author, illustrator, artisanal astro-hobbit
BendFilm: Basecamp Fellow | Tin House & Stowe Story Labs | Town Hall Seattle Writer-in-Residence ‘22 | SFWA |
Film/prose/art: https://sarah-salcedo.com
Website design: @tallfirsproductions.com
ClippedScape | KQ Watson Writes🇨🇦 @kqwatson.bsky.social Writing dystopia while living in a dystopia.
CLIPPED: https://books2read.com/Clippednovel
GOODREADS: www.goodreads.com/book/show/225861123-clipped
WIP: Coven Thing
https://kqwatson.carrd.co
Andrey Satarin @asatarin.bsky.social Staff SRE at Google. Distributed systems / databases / reliability / correctness. Views my own. Repost / like is not an endorsement.
http://asatarin.github.io
Alex Miller @alexmillerdb.bsky.social Database Papers as a Service
Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com she/her. Author, manager, distributed systems engineer, etc etc, my latest book Platform Engineering is available now! https://amzn.to/4eUz5zB
Jay Kreps @jaykreps.bsky.social 
Alex P @ifesdjeen.bsky.social Distributed and Storage Systems. Apache Cassandra Committer and PMC member. Author of Database Internals. Mountain person. http://databass.dev/
Michael Gasch @embano1.mgasch.com Product Manager AWS. Golang. Distributed Systems.
Views and opinions are my own.- C Cindy Sridharan @copyconstruct.bsky.social
Heidi Howard @heidihoward.bsky.social 
Murat (Distributolog) @muratdemirbas.bsky.social Distributed systems,Database systems, Lightweight formal methods, TLA+
https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/
Jack Vanlightly @vanlightly.bsky.social Researcher, advisor, writer, formal verification eng @ Confluent.
Everything data (dist sys, databases, messaging, data eng/analytics).
https://jack-vanlightly.com, https://www.hotds.dev
Credit: ESO/B. Tafresh
Marc Brooker @marcbrooker.bsky.social Serverless, databases, and serverless databases at AWS. Views my own.
Check out my blog: https://brooker.co.za/blog/
Phil Eaton @eatonphil.bsky.social on software infrastructure @theconsensus.dev.
theconsensus.dev
Qian Li @qianli.dev Co-founder @dbos.dev • Stanford CS PhD
Co-organizer @southbaysystems.xyz
Working on 🐘 Database + Systems + AI
Amateur bird watcher 🦉
Personal site: qianli.dev
She/her.
Jepsen @jepsen.mastodon.jepsen.io.ap.brid.gy Breaking distributed systems, one fault at a time.
[bridged from https://mastodon.jepsen.io/@jepsen on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Carlos Baquero @xmal.bsky.social Professor at FEUP University of Porto and researcher at INESC TEC. Distributed Systems and Data. Co-creator of CRDTs. Founder eurotux.com. Still searching for unknown unknowns. (🦋 July 2023)
Web: https://cbaquero.github.io/web/
Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com Associate Professor at @cst.cam.ac.uk, researching decentralised systems and security protocols. Advisor to the Bluesky team. Wrote “Designing Data-Intensive Applications” (O’Reilly). he/him
Ivan Prisiazhnyi @johnkoepi.bsky.social Software Engineer, System Programming, Distributed Systems
Lalith Suresh @lalithsuresh.bsky.social CEO @ feldera.com, the incremental compute engine for AI, ML and data teams.
Formerly a systems researcher in distributed systems, databases, cloud, OS, PL, and networking. Sci-fi and gaming nerd.
lalith.in/research
Pierre Zemb @pierrezemb.fr 🧑💻 Staff Engineer @clever-cloud.com
🤩 Distributed and Database Systems
🚀 Co-leader Finistdevs.org
💪 Squash player
Reuben Bond @rbn.bsky.social Distributed Systems & databases person. Works at Microsoft on Orleans & Aspire
Conor Power @conorpower23.bsky.social Principal Applied Scientist in Microsoft CoreAI. Working on AI for coding. Co-organizer of SF Systems Meetup. CS PhD from Berkeley Sky Lab where I worked on https://hydro.run/ .
Richard Bishop @richardb.bsky.social Distributed systems, databases, and the foundational primitives for better (more robust, efficient, accessible) computing.
Currently at Snowflake building managed Postgres. Formerly Crunchy Data and AWS.
Marco Slot @marcoslot.com Mostly posts about PostgreSQL, Snowflake Postgres, and PostgreSQL extensions.
Formerly Crunchy Data, Microsoft, Citus Data, AWS, TCD, VU
Dominik Tornow @dominiktornow.bsky.social Founder Resonate HQ | Distributed Async Await | Thinking in Distributed Systems | https://dtornow.substack.com
Lorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com Student of complex systems failures, resilience engineering, cognitive systems engineering. Will talk your ear off about @resilienceinsoftware.org
Uwe Friedrichsen @ufried.bsky.social Uwe Friedrichsen. Longtime traveler in the world of IT. Dot Connector. Keeper of timeless wisdom. Translator between floors. System design. Resilience. Sustainability. Tries to make (not only) IT a (bit) better place.
alex gallego @emaxerrno.bsky.social founder & ceo of redpanda data - ai.redpanda.com
A. Jesse Jiryu Davis @emptysqua.re Senior Staff Research Engineer in the MongoDB Distributed Systems Research Group. Photographer, Gunks climber, Zen Buddhist. Blog: https://emptysqua.re
David Daly @daviddaly.bsky.social Staff Engineer in Tech
Go 'Cuse!
I read books. he/him
https://www.daviddaly.me/
David Yanacek @dyanacek.bsky.social Works in AWS on Agentic AI and AWS DevOps Agent. Previously on CloudWatch, API Gateway, Lambda, IoT Core, DynamoDB
Federico Ponzi @fponzi.me MSc in Computer Science. SDE @microsoft Distributed systems and operating systems.
My tweets, my opinions
James Cowling @jamescowling.dev @convex.dev co-founder/CTO. Dropbox storage designer. Distributed systems researcher at MIT. Bad motorcycle mechanic. Database shill.
The Questionable Authority @questauthority.bsky.social Father, Army Husband (Ret.), lawyer. KUSK alum; public servant. Litigation disaster tour guide. Odd Fellow (and odd fellow). Proud member of the terminally online community since 1993. he/him
Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social Doing what I dreamed of since I was a kid.
Books: Lone Women, The Changeling, The Ballad of Black Tom, The Devil in Silver.
TV: The Changeling (EP), The Terror: Devil in Silver (Creator, Showrunner)
Comics: Destroyer, Eve, Sabretooth, Black Panther
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social DC. political philosopher at Georgetown, editor at @hammerandhope.bsky.social, rhythm guitarist + vox for @femiandfoundation.bsky.social. #COYS
Katherine Addison/Sarah Monette @pennyvixen.bsky.social TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS
THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL
She/her
Gen X
Breast cancer survivor '23, OCD since '01, ME/CFS/FM, etc.
Horror/fantasy writer best known for THE GOBLIN EMPEROR (Tor, 2014)
Geek about everything
Childless cat lady by choice
@theshadesoforange.bsky.social @theshadesoforange.bsky.social