Megan Woodward @megan-woodward.bsky.social Occupational bookworm
PhD exploring Child-oriented & post/nonhuman temporalities in British dystopias @ Uni of York.
Research network admin, 'Reproduction and the Humanities' (York).
University of Leeds alum and former Faculty Student Success Officer
Iain Clark 🖖 @iainjclarkart.com He / They. Other pronouns welcome.
Fan art / 6x Hugo loser / Designer of the 2024 Hugo Trophy. Reader of SF/F & Romance. Vocal about inclusion, feminism, trans rights; tell me if I get it wrong.
No AI art.
https://iainjclarkart.com
Ailsa Cox @ailsacox.bsky.social Writer and critic, Emerita Professor of Short Fiction at Edge Hill University UK.
Short stories, Precipitation, https://www.confingopublishing.uk/
https://www.routledge.com/Writing-Short-Stories-A-Routledge-Writers-Guide/Cox/p/book/9781032582481.
Aparna Sivasankar @apar.bsky.social Reader, writer, semi-pro lurker. Social media introvert, real life extrovert. PhD Creative Writing @newcastleuni.bsky.social
Publishers' Licensing Services @plslicensing.bsky.social Providing rights and licensing services, overseeing collective licensing, and maximising the value of published content for over 4,500 publishers since 1981.
PLS have collected & distributed more than £49.3m in 2025-26.
Brittany Griffiths @bmariegriffiths.bsky.social Director of Editorial, Design, and Production @cornellupress.bsky.social
Into anything in the realm of publishing studies, nautical history, horror, urban studies, media studies, or WWII.
Beatriz @bhermidaramos.bsky.social PhD candidate and graduate research fellow at @usaloficial.bsky.social | SF, Gender, Queerness, Space, Hope | #AmLit | They/she 🏳️🌈
Danie Ware @danacea.bsky.social #Author Titan, Black Library, Aconyte, Rebellion. 25yrs commercial geek marketing, now #bookseller, #Manga and #comics. Re-enactor, gamer, #cat mom. #NoAI. Views my own.
James Swallow @jmswallow.bsky.social Writer of Fortune; BAFTA-nominated, award-winning New York Times & Sunday Times bestselling author of novels, scripts, games, new thriller Dark Horizon, the Marc Dane series, tie-in fiction & much more!
https://jswallow.com/
https://linktr.ee/jmswallow
Rutgers University Press @rutgersupress.bsky.social Rutgers University Press is dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge to scholars, students, and the general reading public. The Press reflects and extends the University’s core mission of research, instruction, and service.
Roseanna Pendlebury @chloroformtea.bsky.social SFF enthusiast, hobby-collector, blogger, shouter-at-the-internet. Editor at Ignyte and Hugo winner Nerds of a Feather, along with reviews elsewhere. 2026 Hugo Fan Writer finalist. All links here: https://linktr.ee/roseanna.pendlebury (she/her).
K.V. Johansen @kvjohansen.bsky.social Author. Epic fantasy: Blackdog, The Leopard, The Lady, Gods of Nabban, & The Last Road (Pyr). High fantasy: The Wolf and the Wild King (Mystique). Spring 2026: Breath and Bone, new sword & sorcery from Candlemark & Gleam. Cdn, Bay of Fundy. www.kvj.ca
Andrew Ferguson @epikt.bsky.social Critic in residency at the Institute of Impure Science. He/him. Failure wizard.
Current Research in Speculative Fiction Conference @crsfliverpool.bsky.social CRSF, the speculative fiction conference @liverpooluni.bsky.social✨️
#CRSF2026 16th - 17th July 2026 👽
📧 crsf.team@gmail.com
linktr.ee/crsfliverpool
Eleanor @el-patterson.bsky.social u of g english lit phd student
collector of spooky mugs
twenty something, she/they
Iridescence - The 2026 Eastercon @easterconuk.bsky.social Iridescence 2026 is the UK's next Eastercon, the UK's longest running sci-fi convention. At the Hilton Birmingham Metropole, 3-6 April 2026.
https://eastercon2026.org/
Helen Macdonald @hjm.bsky.social Writer. One half of a dynamic duo. H is for Hawk, Vesper Flights. PROPHET with Sin Blache. Rep by the Clegg Agency. Non-binary. They/she 
Josephine Taylor @josietaylor.bsky.social Researcher and lecturer: Energy culture, nonhuman worlds, and gender.
Brighton life 🌈.Beyond Gender Collective 🛸. Life, love and rage with bipolar 🌼💖- B @brianbaker69.bsky.social @brianbaker69.bsky.social
Birmingham Science Fiction Group @birminghamsfgroup.bsky.social Founded in 1971, the BSFG is a non-profit-making organisation that meets monthly and provides an informal atmosphere in which SF fans can meet one another and professionals in the field.
www.birminghamsfgroup.org.uk
contact@brumsfgroup.org.uk
Jake Casella Brookins @casella.bsky.social Appalachian in the big city. Editor at Ancillary Review, host of A Meal of Thorns, bookseller, coffee pro, SF reviewer & scholar. He/him.
https://linktr.ee/jakecasellabrookins
Glyn Morgan @grmorgan.bsky.social Head of Collections and Principal Curator at The Science Museum, London | Storyteller | PhD | Sometime Lecturer, Interviewer, Writer | He/Him | Views mine | https://linktr.ee/glynmorgan
D. Harlan Wilson @dharlanwilson.bsky.social https://dharlanwilson.com
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 🌈🏳️🌈
E. J. Swift @catamaroon.bsky.social Author of When There Are Wolves Again (Clarke Award & BSFA winner), The Coral Bones (Clarke Award & BSFA shortlist) & other things. Repped by Margaret Halton at PEW Literary.
https://geni.us/WhenThereAreWolves
www.ejswift.co.uk
Dr Heidi Colthup @heidi-colthup.bsky.social When the revolution comes I'll be in bed reading or playing a video game. Lecturer in film & media, writer, editor, feminist (NOT a terf), UCU rep. She/her
#WIASN #WalkingSimulators 
Zoe Tongue @whiterxbbit.bsky.social Dr | Lecturer in Law at the University of Leeds | abortion, international human rights, animals, science fiction, comics | vegan | bisexual | she/they
andré carrington @andrecarrington.bsky.social Author of Audiofuturism, Speculative Blackness, and editor, The Black Fantastic
https://fordhampress.com/audiofuturism-hb-9781531513320.html
insta: audio.futurism
Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd Assoc. Project Director @ Knowledge Commons, MSU | Lit and Publishing Research Prof @ Uni of London, Birkbeck | Music on tici taci records | My books: https://books.eve.gd
Octocon @octocon.bsky.social The National Irish Science Fiction Convention,
3rd & 4th October, 2026. Sci Fi, Fantasy & Horror. https://octocon.com
Speculative Insight journal @speculativeinsight.bsky.social A journal that explores the breadth and depth of the themes, ideas, and issues of science fiction and fantasy. Ed. Alexandra Pierce.
https://www.speculativeinsight.com/
Head of Zeus @headofzeus.bsky.social 📚 Home to great stories and bestselling authors
📚 Award-winning independent division of Bloomsbury Publishing
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: The Future of Science is Civic, Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics & the Unsettled Past, Body & Soul, Technicolor
Phoebe Chetwynd @phoebechetwynd.bsky.social funded PhD candidate in comp lit @RHUL 📚| researching futures of meat in sf 🌱| teacher @UPEC @SorbonneNouvelle 🇫🇷 | cat parent 🐈⬛
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social Ungainly on land
Jeannette Ng 吳志麗 @ngjeannette.bsky.social Novelist. Won: Astounding, BFA Newcomer. Dabbles: history, poetry, costumes, live roleplay. She/they. Mostly photos of my dog. Repped by @jenniegoloboy.bsky.social
Ian Rankin @ianrankin1.bsky.social Author, Inspector Rebus (and other stuff). Edinburgh-based. More usually pub-based.
Jörg Matthias Determann @determann.bsky.social Historian at Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. Author of “Teaching Science Through Science Fiction” and “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Astronomy.” https://vcu.academia.edu/Determann
Dr Naomi Jacobs @ladylark.bsky.social Lecturer in Design Policy and Futures Thinking at Lancaster University, researching technology and society, and sometimes fandom. Co-Director of @Imaginationlanc.bsky.social. Wrote for @blackarchive.co.uk. She/her.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2079-1658
Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social Professor of Ethics & Technology @ Hertie School, Berlin. Interests: Artificial & Natural Intelligence; Behavioural Ecology; Cooperation; Digital Governance. Social media policy: https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2024/10/guidance-to-my-social-media.html
Anna Orridge @anna-orridge.bsky.social Books, corvids and the shakily cheerful evasion of despair. PHENGARIS
@nefariousbatpress.bsky.social PARCH MARKS out with @GoldSF.bsky.social in Sept 26.
Author website: https://annaorridge.com/ (thanks to @sonorataylor.bsky.social)
she/her
George Sandison @georgesandison.bsky.social Managing Editor @titanbooks.bsky.social. Ran multiple award-winning Unsung Stories. Writer: HINTERLANDS @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social. European (yes, still). Empathy, compassion & ice cream pls. He/Him.
AGENCY out now https://shorturl.at/iqPUx
Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social ~Public Historian 📜🤓
~Host & creator BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME podcast😆🧐🎙️📻📜🏛️
~ Author of 8 funny books for kids & adults ✍️📚
~ BBC HORRIBLE HISTORIES (2008-19)
📺🤣
~Hon. Dr & Fellow, University of York IPUP 🧑🎓
~Spurs fan #COYS ⚽️
www.gregjenner.com 🧑💻
Utopian and Dystopian Fictions Podcast @utopiaanddystopia.bsky.social A podcast about utopia and dystopia hosted by @matthewleggatt.bsky.social and @dystopiajunkie.bsky.social. Each episode we interview a different thinker in the field of Utopian and Dystopian studies. Follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or YouTube.
Bill Campbell @rosariumbill.bsky.social Head cook and bottle washer at Rosarium Publishing, where we've been "introducing the world to itself" since 2013.
Mark Stewart @markstewart2001.bsky.social Writer, Editor ("Odyssey" magazine), Architect of "The Metaphor Equation." https://markdestewart.wixsite.com/the-metaphor-equatio Learning to live with cancer.
Audrey @audi-poetics.bsky.social Literary Studies M.A
Poet, scholar, and educator.
Certified silly goose!
Manchester Review @manchesterreview.bsky.social The Manchester Review is an online literary journal that brings together the best of new international writing.
https://www.themanchesterreview.co.uk/
SFF Reviews @sffreview.bsky.social Science FIction and Fantasy book and movie reviews.
Lovers of space, aliens, dragons, swords and lasers!
>>>transitioning from X - help us GROW here!<<<
#scifi #bookSky #fantasy #sff
European Network of Short Fiction Research @ensfr.bsky.social We aim to provide a forum and resources for European-based researchers into the practice, criticism and transmission of short fiction in its diversity of forms and to facilitate collaboration in both critical and practice-led research.
School Reading List @schoolreadinglist.bsky.social #1 UK children's booklisting website according to Ubersuggest. We recommend children’s and YA books to teachers, parents, librarians and schools. Free resources, free reviews and no paywall. #GoAllIn
https://schoolreadinglist.co.uk
ALCS @alcs.co.uk We're the Authors' Licensing & Collecting Society. Nobody else in the world does exactly what we do. We've been championing writers and making sure they get paid for secondary uses of their work since 1977
www.alcs.co.uk
Joy Sanchez-Taylor @jsanchez-taylor.bsky.social Scholar of SFF Literature. Author of Diverse Futures (OSU, 2021) and Dispelling Fantasies (OSU, 2025). Professor of English at LaGuardia Community College (CUNY). https://ohiostatepress.org/books/titles/9780814215906.html
Jennifer Walshe @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social Composer, vocalist, improviser, Mars, noise, AI, professor of composition University of Oxford views my own 🚀☄️www.milker.org 13 Ways of Looking at AI, Art & Music https://unsoundfestival.bandcamp.com/merch/jennifer-walshe-13-ways-of-looking-at-ai-art-music
Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies @ralahinecentre.bsky.social @ University of Limerick, Ireland
https://www.ul.ie/artsoc/ralahinecentre
https://pure.ul.ie/en/organisations/ralahine-centre-for-utopian-studies/persons/
Book series : https://www.peterlang.com/series/rus
Mark Bould @markbould.bsky.social Professor of Film, Literature and Poor Life Choices. Full-time duck chaperone. Part-time author of things about films and books.
Bristol Short Story Prize @bristolshortstory.bsky.social The Bristol Short Story Prize is an international writing competition hosted by the Department of English at the University of Bristol.
https://bssp.blogs.bristol.ac.uk
@jennybonnevier.bsky.social @jennybonnevier.bsky.social Associate professor of English, feminist, speculative fiction scholar, doing my best to work for climate justice and to be a BIPOC and HBTQIA ally through both teaching, research, and life choices.
Desert Mage @desertmage65.bsky.social Avid reader, cat lover, Trump hater. Want to live long enough to piss on his grave.
Robert Yeates @bobyeates.bsky.social Associate Professor of American Literature, Okayama University, Japan. #OpenAccess monograph: American Cities in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction http://uclpress.co.uk/AmericanCities
Brian Dillon @briangdillon.bsky.social Writer. AFFINITIES, ESSAYISM & SUPPOSE A SENTENCE published by Fitzcarraldo & NYRB. GONE TO EARTH (on Hounds of Love) & AMBIVALENCE (on education) forthcoming.
Conrad Scott @conradscott.bsky.social I think / write about the future, the environment, literature, and culture. Academics, poetry, prose.
Pippa Goldschmidt @pippagoldschmidt.bsky.social Hybrid sci-art ex-astronomer now-author. Writes fiction, poems, essays, reviews. Latest two are 'Deutschstunden' from CulturBooks and 'Schrödinger’s Wife (and other possibilities)' from Goldsmiths Press/Gold SF. https://www.pippagoldschmidt.co.uk
Catherine Butler @catherine-butler.bsky.social Literary academic, children's novelist, Japan enthusiast, Bristolian by convincement.
edjohnpowell @edjohnpowell.bsky.social Worldsmith
Nat Muller @natmuller.bsky.social Curator, writer, researcher of contemporary art, SWANA, science fiction, Anthropocene, ghosts. Has a PhD in Lost Futurities. Loves to eat and has a weakness for dogs, bats, sloths, and gargoyles. Unapologetically opinionated. natmuller.com
The Edinburgh Bookshop @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social Small but mighty, award-winning indpendent bookshop in the heart of Edinburgh's lovely Bruntsfield area
https://www.edinburghbookshop.com/
Dr Emrah Atasoy @atasoyemrah.bsky.social IASH Research Fellow and EFI Affiliate at the University of Edinburgh. Associate Fellow at the Uni of Warwick. Assoc Prof of Anglophone Literature and Culture. Former researcher at Harvard, Oxford, and Penn State Universities. RTs/likes not endorsements.
Smin Smith @sminsmith.bsky.social 🪐 Researcher in Science Fiction Art
🪫 Union Rep / Lecturer / PhD Student
🦑 Beyond Gender Research Collective
📲 sminsmith.co.uk
Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research @fafnirjournal.bsky.social 2020 World Fantasy Award-winning, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary, and open-access journal published by The Finnish Society for Science Fiction and Fantasy Research. ISSN: 2342-2009.
https://fafnir.journal.fi/about
Andrew M Butler @amb42.bsky.social Sf, film, art, real ale, shiny trousers
Timothy S. Miller @timothysmiller.bsky.social fantasy, science fiction, medieval studies, plants
he/him
unicorn book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-53425-6
Earthsea book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-24640-1
Pedro Mora-Ramírez @pedromrez.bsky.social PhD Candidate, @unisevilla.bsky.social | Masculinities, Space, Abolition, Literature, Film | Teoría y Estudios Culturales TEC (HUM 409)
https://linktr.ee/pedromrez
Frances Hardinge @franceshardinge.bsky.social Writer of downright odd children's/YA books. Hobbies include travelling, dressing in period costume and scuba diving. Addicted to volcanoes and trying new things.
Matthew Sangster @mjrsangster.bsky.social Professor of Romantic Studies, Fantasy and Cultural History at the University of Glasgow. President, @bars.bsky.social. New book: https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/subjects/literature/english-literature-1900-1945/introduction-fantasy.
UofG Fantasy @uofgfantasy.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social Centre for Fantasy + the Fantastic + Masters in Fantasy (https://gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/fantasy/). Co-directors: @tattersdill.bsky.social and @mjrsangster.bsky.social. Website: https://fantasy.glasgow.ac.uk/
Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
Ancillary Review of Books @ancillaryreviewofbooks.org culture, power, speculation
https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/
Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AncillaryReview
New Approaches to Sound, Music and Media @soundmusicmedia.bsky.social Official account for Bloomsbury’s New Approaches to Sound, Music and Media book series.
Amy C. Chambers 🧬🎬🍿 @amycchambers.bsky.social #WomenInSTEM #SciEnt #SciComm #WomenMakeSF #WomenMakeSFPod
Women Make Science Fiction Project:
https://bsky.app/profile/womenmakesf.bsky.social
she/her/Dr | https://linktr.ee/amycchambers
World building in literature and gaming @thealdissaward.bsky.social An annual award to celebrate speculative fiction and gaming (on and offline) for superlative world building
http://thealdissaward.com/
Merve Tabur @mervet.bsky.social Turkish/Arabic/Anglophone SF ☆ climate change ☆ urban futures ☆ petro-cultures ☆ #envhum
Lecturer in Comparative Literature @ Utrecht University
Researcher @ CoFutures
Editor-in-chief @ Polyfora
https://mervetabur.com
Farah Mendlesohn @effjayem.bsky.social SF fan, writer etc etc. 🏴Author of The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein; Rhetorics of Fantasy and Considering the Female Man (Luna Press, Order now!) UK GUFF delegate to Swancon 2028, Member of @brisbanein28.bsky.social 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇵🇸 (Farah/they)
Joey Walnuts @jolwalton.bsky.social AI slop Ian Hislop. Writing a book, After Capitalism: The End of the End of the World | https://linktr.ee/jolwalton
LYU Guangzhao @lyuguangzhao.bsky.social Associate Professor in English and Comparative Literature at Fudan University, Author of The Boom & The Boom (2024), PhD at UCL, “Support a New Scholar” at SFRA
Jeremy Brett @jbarchivist.bsky.social Science fiction librarian, archivist, curator, reader. Reasonably nice.
Johnny Mains @johnnymains.co.uk Horror anthologist.
AuDHD.
Buy Me a Coffee: buymeacoffee.com/johnnymains
Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social Writer on archive TV and film. Currently working on a book about the BBC’s A Ghost Story for Christmas. Produced The Quatermass Experiment (2023) and Children of The Stone Tape (2024). Podcasts on Nigel Kneale and Giallo.
Dr Bill Hughes (William the Bloody) @billbloodyhughes.bsky.social Cat lover. 18C scholar on the dialogue and novel. Gothic fairies, vampires and paranormal romance; co-organiser Open Graves, Open Minds Project @ogomproject.bsky.social
https://hcommons.org/members/billhughes/
www.opengravesopenminds.com
Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social Creator of @scarfolk.bsky.social. "This guy, who apparently saw the future" - Edward Snowden. Running an ASD/ADHD operating system.
https://www.richardlittler.com
Anna McFarlane @mariettarosetta.bsky.social Lecturer in Fantasy Literature at Glasgow Uni. Working on speculative fiction, representations of reproduction, medical humanities. Series editor Palgrave SFF: A New Canon. Twin Peaks/Blindboy obsessive.
https://glasgow.academia.edu/AnnaMcFarlane
Michelle K Anderson @mkanderson.bsky.social He that troubleth his own house, shall inherit the wind; and the the wise of heart shall be servant to the fool
Alex Winter @alexwinter.com Trans Rights are Human Rights.
alexwinter.com
Ben Aaronovitch @benaaronovitch.bsky.social Author of the Rivers of London Series