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Andrew Pulrang @apulrang.bsky.social Disability, politics, popular culture. I'm a Baby Boom / Gen X hybrid. #CripTheVote. Freelance disability writing. https://disability-thinking-weekday.ghost.io He/him.
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scorchedmirth @scorchedmirth.bsky.social Existentialism? Don't even get me Sartred.
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Mary Roach @maryroach.bsky.social Nonfiction author, science goober. Stiff, Bonk, Fuzz, Grunt, Packing for Mars, etc. 
Kate Schaefer @kateschaefer.bsky.social She/her. Everything is more complicated than that. I volunteer with Carl Brandon Society, Clarion West, Otherwise. I walked Hadrian's Wall a few years ago. I read a lot. I sew a lot. I garden a little. My grandchildren are old enough to vote. I digress.
Serene (any pronouns) @serenevannoy.bsky.social Bi poly atheist cis white disabled poet & fatchick extraordinaire. I read while I walk and I don't bump into stuff. Much. Living in the mountains of New Mexico since 2021. Videos about cheap cooking and trauma-informed housework on Youtube.com/SereneVannoy
Katharine Kit Kerr @kitkerr.bsky.social Writes SF and F, author of the Deverry series among many other books. Certified Old Bat, still radical leftist.
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Lisa Hirsch @lisairontongue.bsky.social Classical music and opera journalist. Blogs at irontongue.blogspot.com. Alto, martial artist. Former tech writer. Music, books, politics, food, public health. Cis, queer, Jewish. I instablock men who follow only women's accounts.
Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders ๐ณ๏ธโโง @charliejane.bsky.social Author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster about a woman who teaches her mother how to do magic โย and uncovers a queer scandal hidden in a 300 year old book. Writing Star Trek: Zero Point for IDW Comics.
Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com 40+ yrs in print, 50+ novels, asst'd TV/film, NYT B'seller List every now & then, blah blah blah. Ireland-resident. Ebook store: https://ebooks.direct. Now with added Ko-Fi! (https://ko-fi.com/dianeduane) I miss @peter.petermorwood.com.
Cliff Winnig @cliffwinnig.bsky.social Cliff is a carbon-based life form. Writes, plays sitar, dances, sings. Does aikido, karate, and tai chi. Host of SF in SF and 3rd Sunday host of the B Cubed Sunday Morning podcast. (he/him) cliffwinnig.com
Pamela Dean @pameladean.bsky.social Has-been fantasy writer trying to finish that one book. Fond of gardens, birds, dragonflies, very amateur astronomy, books, and cats. She/her
N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.
Jo Walton @bluejo.eurosky.social Writer of SF and fantasy. Superintelligent shade of the colour blue. "Even better than cold carrots." Vocateur reader. Philhellenist. Loves tea, trains, travel.
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social Rabbi/award-winning author.
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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.
Ellen Kushner @ellenkushner.bsky.social Author & woman around town. Married to Delia Sherman. Wrote Swordspoint. Host/writer of public radioโs Sound & Spirit. A new gig every 17 years. Back to writing novels. Seeking for further amusement.
I would probably like you.
Madeleine E. Robins @madrobins.bsky.social Writer, baker, beader, mom. Dedicated NYer now living in San Francisco. She/Her.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden @pnh.nielsenhayden.com Retired SF and fantasy editor, winner of three Hugos and a World Fantasy Award. Amateur musician, bibliophile, genealogist, layabout.
He, his. Anti-trans dingbats, get lost.
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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com Author of the award-winning Ancillary Justice. Lives in St Louis.
Jim C. Hines @jimchines.com Author of SLAYERS OF OLD, KITEMASTER, TERMINAL ALLIANCE, LIBRIOMANCER, GOBLIN QUEST, and other fun stuff. Knows where his towel is. He/him.
Nisi Shawl @nisishawl.bsky.social Writer editor singer songer. Self-appointed ALT text Jello Sherriff.
Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social Science fiction & fantasy writer. World builder. Reader. Outrigger canoe paddler. I โค๏ธ my schnauzer. Hawaii. โก๏ธ๐๏ธ She/her.
Where Should I Start With Your Novels, a guide:
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com I enjoy pie.
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Beth @bethmeacham.bsky.social Retired SFF editor and horsewoman. Lives in Arizona. Anti-Fascist since 1951.
Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social Science and global health reporter for The New York Times
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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd
latest books: Automatic Noodle, Stories Are Weapons, We Will Rise Again
bylines: New Scientist, Flaming Hydra, etc.
pronouns: they/them
all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com
Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Sandman Slim series. Kadrey also plays music with the band A Demon in Fun City. he/him
Alice Wong @sfdirewolf.bsky.social Author, editor, activist, cat lover. Founder of the Disability Visibility Project.
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Anat Shenker-Osorio @anatosaurus.bsky.social Host of Words to Win By, a podcast about progressive wins around the world and how we achieved them. https://wordstowinby-pod.com/
Researcher, message maker, campaign strategist to progressive and Democratic causes here and abroad.
Chelsey Spriggs @drsprggs.bsky.social Virologist. Assistant Prof. at UMich. DEI Advocate. Detroit Girly. #BlackInMicro
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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social https://linktr.ee/roxanegay
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com Freelance journalist. @ms.now and Xtra Magazine columnist. Co-founder: The Flytrap. Cancel Me, Daddy podcast co-host.
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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
Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social SFF author, triple Hugo award winner (and three times Locus award too), over a million books sold.
Mostly on Mastodon: @cstross@wandering.shop
Blog: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
Andrea Hairston @andreahairston.bsky.social novelist, drama queen, biker babe, speculating and agitating http://andreahairston.com/
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...."
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Nalo Hopkinson - Jamaica Ginger & Other Concoctions @nalohop.bsky.social Award-winning author of prose & comics, maker of food and small objects she/her/hers http://nalohopkinson.com
Justine Larbalestier @larbalestier.bsky.social Aussie USian Novelist & clothes wearer, who loves the WNBA. The Mortons published by Penguin (ANZ, Canada, USA) is out NOW. Fascism=bad. @DrJustineFancyPants on Insta. She/her/hers.
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Gavin, Small Beer (closed due to long covid), &c. @gavingrant.bsky.social Gavin J. Grant. He/him. Born: 323ppm. Peely-wally vegan Scottish immigrant. Equality? I like it. BLM. Antifascist. Trans rights=human rights. Long covid 12/21, meh. Tired. Wears masks, asks you to, too. smallbeerpress.com (closed) & LCRW. bookmoonbooks.com
Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social *THE* Naijamerican PhD-holding, World Fantasy, multi-Hugo, Nebula, Eisner Award-winning, New York Times bestselling rudimentary cyborg writer, nnedi.com
Keffy @keffy.bsky.social he/him/they/them
500 tiny scientists in a trenchcoat / apocalyptic trans man.
I write SF/F and have had stories published in Uncanny, Lightspeed, Apex, and others. I also edit(ed) GlitterShip which is on hiatus atm.
M.Phil Genetics
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Effie Seiberg @effies.bsky.social Nebula-winning and Hugo/Sturgeon-nominated writer. Bagel the Dog's emotional support human. Dadjoke teller. Unrepentant punster. Sentence-fragment lover. Disabled w #MECFS She/her effieseiberg.com/stories
Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social Author, essayist, hot fat monster of appetites. Bi my books and tell me Iโm pretty.
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Tananarive Due - The Reformatory @tananarivedue.bsky.social Lifewriting Podcast - Exec Producer #HorrorNoire: A History of Black Horror, Writer: Twilight Zone. UCLA Lecturer. Vanity Fair. Author: American Book Award #BLM #blacksky She/Her - https://linktr.ee/tananarivedue
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.
Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com Wrote half of This Is How You Lose the Time War & all of The River Has Roots. Next book: Seasons of Glass & Iron, March 24, 2026. I have a newsletter you can sign up for at amalelmohtar.com
Cecilia Tan @ceciliatan.com Award-winning sf/f, erotica and romance writer. Just your typical biracial bigender bisexual. All pronouns valid, she/her for societyโs convenience. https://linktr.ee/ceciliatan
Wordweaverlynn @wordweaverlynn.bsky.social Born human, more cyborg every year. Queer, poly, and kinky.
I love books, music, landscape, God, and my partners. Intellectually omnivorous. Pennsylvanian transplanted to California.
LeVar Burton @levarburton.bsky.social Kunta, Geordi, Reading Rainbow guy. Flies twice as highโฆ #bydhttmwfi
Steven Barnes @kundalinisteve.bsky.social 
Matt Austern @austern.bsky.social Computer programmer, ex-physicist, husband and father, reader. I live in Palo Alto and work at Google, where my focus is large scale data.
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PokerShaman59 @pokershaman59.bsky.social AKA PurposefulPoker, Alan Bostick.
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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social Science fiction. Fantasy. The universe. And related subjects.
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piranha4D @piranha4d.bsky.social old. cranky. no spoons left, no fucks given. introvert. weirdo. enby (they). poly (not complicated). socialist. atheist. antifa. reading, 3D, gardening, woodworking, photography, languages, cats & dogs (not 4 eating), collecting other people's hobbies.
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Unseen History @unseenhistory.bsky.social Sharing real moments from history, both famous and forgotten. Posting daily here since I left Twitter.
Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social Prof @ Penn studying media, race, tech, feminism, politics.
Author of A SECOND SIGHT (Mariner, 2026), co-author #HASHTAGACTIVISM (MIT Press, 2020) + more.
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Martha S. Jones @marthasjones.bsky.social Historian | Writer | Lapsed Lawyer | Professor JHU | Director Hard Histories | Author The Trouble of Color, Vanguard, Birthright Citizens | msjonz@jhu.edu
Alicia @aliciablackgirl.bsky.social Anti War, Anti Operation Epstein Fury , Dump Trump
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East Bay Public Bank @ebpublicbank.bsky.social Working to help build a local East Bay economy that feeds itself at the expense of outside profit-seekers.
BC Holmes @bcholmes.org One part Pip; one part Estella
Trek nerd. Queer ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ. Programmer and pro-grammar. IDIC means Black Lives Matter and trans rights!
I'm not going to read your Substack article.
I maintain the STA Character Creator.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social My Book: Giving Up Is Unforgivable |UALawSchool |MSNOW Legal Analyst |Podcasts #SistersInLaw & Cafe Insider|Obama US Atty |25 year fed'l prosecutor|Wife & Mom of 4|Knits a lot|Civil Discourse newsletter: joycevance.substack.com
Debbie N @kith51.bsky.social Joined with the mass influx, but for slightly different reasons. I left Xhitter many months ago when the anti-Semitism went public; joined after 11/5 in need of better communication lines.
Economic justice, science fiction, community, books.
waywardcats @waywardcats.bsky.social Crazy cat lady who loves democracy, voting rights, archaeology, nature.
Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social Host of The Joy Reid Show, best-selling author, writer, documentary filmmaker, and happy warrior blerd 'bout town. Subscribe at thejoyreidshow.com and joyannreid.com!
Melissa Brownstein RN/Bluewater Psychic, Certified Wound Nurse @melissabrownstein.bsky.social Multistate RN Pediatric Specialist x 43 yrs, CDC ORR UC Supervisor Miami Obama Administration, CDC Certified Infection Preventionist, RN WSOC, 4โPsychic Tarot Reader. Against Malignant Misogynist Narcossitic Uneducated Nationalist Evangelical Republicans
Walter Rhein @walterrhein.bsky.social I believe that character matters. I believe the experts. I believe in education. I believe women. I'm a Boost nominator on Medium, let me know if you have a story to tell.
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David Goldfarb @davidgoldfarb.bsky.social SFF fan, player of board games and bridge and chess, comic book reader for over half a century. He/him.
Gilles Poitras @gillespoitras.bsky.social Author of Tokyo Stroll.
Retired librarian, writer on things Japanese.
At the age of 4 Gilles was taken by aliens to California and raised on a diet of science fiction, Loony Toons & honky tonk music.
Carol Squires @gillygrrrl.bsky.social Cis Queer woman, she/her pronouns. Retired after working 27 years for a municipality. Long time fat activist, disabled, reader of science fiction and dog lover.
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirensโ Call: How Attention Became the Worldโs Most Endangered Resource out now.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible.
ocasiocortez.com
rewild @catlott.bsky.social ๐Liberal AF. Sustainist and environmental activist. Cat mama. Native plant enthusiast. #Resist #Bluecrew
BSME. MS Sustainable Management.
PaulDutcher @pauldutcher.bsky.social Retired IT Director with mild Cerebral Palsy advocating for those with Developmental Disabilities. NO telegram ๐ซWA ๐ซsignal ๐ซCrypto ๐ซIlluminati
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GoBlue @blu2b4u.bsky.social Part of the people-powered community that is pro-democracy. ๐บ๐ธ๐จ๐ฆ๐บ๐ฆ๐
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Ari Melber @arimelber.bsky.social Host of โThe Beat with Ari Melberโ on MS NOW | Attorney | Emmy-winning journalist | www.instagram.com/arimelber