Scott Edelman @scottedelman.bsky.social Scott Edelman is a Stoker Award-nominated writer and Hugo Award-nominated editor of science fiction, fantasy & horror, as well as the host of the Hugo Award-nominated Eating the Fantastic podcast! (He/Him)
Henry Lien @henrylienauthor.bsky.social Author. henrylien.com
Barry Lyn-Waitsman @demonbinder.bsky.social 
Larry Sanderson @ls2000.bsky.social Reader, traveler, picture taker, foodie, beer & wine. Shamelessly steal much. No Trumpers. No DMs Gaymers, ask me about Gaylaxicon, 2025.10.03 - 2025.10.05.
Warren Buff (he/him) @strangeresq.bsky.social Science fiction fan, lawyer, keeper of cattle dogs
VE Frankel @vefrankel.bsky.social College writing instructor and homeschool educator 🍎 Books 📚, scifi-fantasy 🪐, education 📐, authoring 📝 ✡️ https://athenasacademy.com/courses
Christopher M. Cevasco @cmcevasco.bsky.social Medievalist (Sub-Roman/Anglo-Saxon England) & author of historical and Arthurian novels, specfic, & horror + bestselling D&D content at #DMsGuild & ENNIE-winning work for Kobold Press. Assistant Series Editor of BASFF. linktr.ee/ChristopherCevasco
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.
Cynthia Ward @cynthiaward.bsky.social SFF writer/editor, co-author/co-founder Writing the Other, cat rescuer, atheist, #ActuallyAutistic, demisexual demigirl, she or they. NO DMs.
Sally Wiener Grotta @sallywienergrotta.bsky.social Award-winning writer, speaker, photographer. (It's all storytelling.) Member: The Authors Guild & SFWA.
SallyWienerGrotta.com
She/Her
Sue Burke @sueburke.bsky.social Writer. https://sueburke.site/
Tina Jens (She/Her) @tinajens.bsky.social Chicagoan, dark fantasy writer dabbling in many forms, reading series producer, former college adjunct & small press editor, feminist earth mama, neuro-divergent, fibromyalgia-fighting, lover of New Orleans & many styles of music, guinea pig foster mom.
JD Blackrose @jdblackrose.bsky.social Fantasy, Comedy and Romantasy author. The Summoner’s Mark Series, The Devil’s Been Busy, The Soul Wars, and A Wrinkle & Crime about a murder solving zombie cosmetologist. Website: www.slipperywords.com or find me as JD Blackrose on Amazon & Goodreads.
Elana Gomel @mor1233.bsky.social I am a writer. I have lived in 5 countries (including one that no longer exists), written 6 novels, and 160 stories (more, actually, but who’s counting?). And when I am not writing fantasy and horror, I am writing about fantasy and horror written by others
Lee_HarpHaven @lee-martindale.bsky.social Named Bard, writer, editor, anthologist, civil & human rights activist, owner of nano-press HarpHaven Publishing. She/her. Married. Liberal. Hell-on-Wheels paraplegic. Latest book: BARD'S ROAD: The Collected Fiction of Lee Martindale
Roby @roby-zz-dahlia.bsky.social Old, opinionated lady with a dog, a cat, and a good heart.
Zev Winicur @zevwinicur.bsky.social Vegetarian chef, medical science liaison, science communicator, husband, dad
Gavriel Rosenfeld @grosenfeld.bsky.social President, Center for Jewish History; Prof. of History, Fairfield University; latest book: Fascism in America (co-edited with Janet Ward)
Andrew Swift @ahswift42.bsky.social 
Sheila Williams @sheilawilliams.bsky.social Hugo award-winning editor of Asimov’s Science Fiction magazine.
Chris McKitterick @mckitterick.bsky.social Writer, educator, Ad Astra SF Institute director, intersectional feminist, astro-guy, rescuer of baby animals, & new papa. https://adastra-sf.com/
Michael A. Burstein @mabfan.bsky.social SF writer (Astounding Award; multiple Hugo/Nebula nominee); science editorial manager at Savvas Learning (opinions are my own); Brookline Library Trustee; He/Him
Francesca Myman @mizfrancesca.bsky.social Senior Editor at Locus Magazine. Artist, editor, writer. Many squid! http://francesca.net/portfolio/ and http://patreon.com/mizfrancesca (She/her) #blm
David Brin @davidbrin.bsky.social Hugo-winning, best-selling sci-fiction author, NASA consultant, physicist, inventor - whose prediction scores offer a deluded sense of competence! When my real job is to speculate entertainingly... not necessarily to be right!
http://www.davidbrin.com
WilberSFwriter @wilbersfwriter.bsky.social I write award-winning short stories, science fiction and fantasy novels, essays, college textbooks, and occasional articles. I'm the co-founder and co-judge of the Dell Magazines Award for Undergraduate Excellence in Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing. 
@joehaldeman.bsky.social @joehaldeman.bsky.social 
@cdelint.bsky.social @cdelint.bsky.social 
Justina Robson @justinarobson.bsky.social I write Science Fiction; AI, transhumanism, economics, space opera and cyberpunk. I also sometimes write Fantasy and a variety of short stories. All opinions my own. She/her. Autistic (self-diagnosed).
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
Pat Cadigan @patcadigan.bsky.social SF/fantasy/horror/whatever writer living in London, defying the odds & kicking the sh!t out of terminal cancer. ‘Heaven doesn’t want me & Hell’s afraid I’ll take over.’ 
Paul McAuley @unlikelyworlds.bsky.social Scribble scribble scribble
Latest novel: Loss Protocol
Working on: Heaven's Grand Design
Website: https://www.unlikelyworlds.co.uk
Agent: Oliver Cheetham at Mic Cheetham Agency
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)
Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social Author: Children of Time, Shadows of the Apt, Final Architecture, City of Last Chances and others. adriantchaikovsky.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)
Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social Writer, FRSL. Prof, RHUL. Literature and science fiction.
https://profadamroberts.substack.com/
"Frankenstein Rex" coming in October:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Frankenstein-Rex-Adam-Roberts/dp/1399617729/
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/
Ken MacLeod @amendlocke.bsky.social Science fiction writer
Beth Dawkins @bethwrites.bsky.social She/her. Writes speculative fiction.
Laurie Mann @lauriemann.bsky.social 🌻💙💛🚶♀️🚀💻🏳️🌈📚🎭🥂🎼🧬💀
Resister, feminist, geek, SF & movie fan. Mundus Sine Caesaribus
How to follow on social media: tinyurl.com/mryxa8ef
Block all messages from weird guys.
@erinmhartshorn.bsky.social @erinmhartshorn.bsky.social 
Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine @asimovssfmag.bsky.social The world’s leading science fiction magazine. 
Analog Science Fiction and Fact @analogsf.bsky.social The oldest continuous running magazine of science fiction & fact.
Juli @julimarr.bsky.social She who hugs with impunity - by mutual consent, 💖 obviously.
Fantasy, Horror, and Media Fan. Several years past my cancer diagnosis. I'm not planning on succumbing to reality or death anytime soon.
SMOF adjacent.
Felicia Herman @fgherman.bsky.social SF fan, whisky drinker, troublemaker
Carl Brandon Society @carlbrandon.bsky.social The Carl Brandon Society is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to issues of race & ethnicity in speculative fiction
Alisa Krasnostein @krasnostein.bsky.social She/her. Mum, crafter. News junkie. Twelfth Planet Press publisher.
Jeff Beeler @jeffbeeler.bsky.social Reference Librarian
Historian, Political Enthusiast,
Retired Convention Runner
Kate Savage @katesavage66.bsky.social Kindness, photography, and reading make me happy. 
Ken Schneyer @kenschneyer.bsky.social Nebula-nominated writer of science fiction & fantasy, humanities professor, lawyer, amateur astronomer & genealogist, humanistic Jew. Born in Michigan but living in Rhode Island. Interested in nearly everything (except teen angst). https://kenschneyer.com
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.
Joshua Palmatier/Zombies Need Brains @joshuapalmatier.bsky.social Joshua Palmatier is an epic fantasy writer and the founder of the small press Zombies Need Brains. ZNB does NOT use AI imagery in its covers and does NOT accept AI-generated stories. Visit the store: https://zombies-need-brains-llc.square.site
Peter Heltzer @heltzer.us 
Alice Bentley @alicebentley.bsky.social Erstwhile bookseller, current island dweller. Loves books, comics, family and friends, not in that order.
Diane Lacey @dianelacey.bsky.social Owned by cats
Vera Nazarian @veranazarian.bsky.social Author of The Atlantis Grail series, Cobweb Bride, Mansfield Park & Mummies, and other works of feverish fancy, award-winning artist. Visit https://veranazarian.com or https://tag.fan for The Atlantis Grail fandom website.
https://linktr.ee/veranazarian- A Alexander von Thorn @alexvonthorn.bsky.social aspiring novelist, game designer, convention organizer, fan writer , PHP/SQL/JS coder, Canadian, American, Irish ancestry, Jewish-adjacent, Liberal, Democrat
he/they
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.
Uncle Vlad @unclevlad.bsky.social Acta Non Verba.- D @dwgallaher.bsky.social @dwgallaher.bsky.social
Netmouse @netmouse.bsky.social Singer, dancer, artist, mom. Historian, Engineer, grant writer, township Commissioner.
Habla conmigo sobre todas las cosas.
Kathryn Cramer 📚🎨 @kathryncramer.bsky.social Dragon Press Bookstore, Westport, NY. UVM Computational Story Lab. Science Fiction Writer & Editor. Artist. Farmer. Westport, NY
Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social Science fiction. Fantasy. The universe. And related subjects.
https://beacons.ai/reactormag
Walt Boyes @waltboyes.bsky.social Industrial Grade Storyteller, Editor, Husband, Dog Lover
The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social I use alternate history and fake maps to talk about real history. Hosted by Matt Mitrovich (he/him). Proud Chicagoan.
Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/thealternatehistorian
Email: ahwupdate at gmail dot com
Stephen Kotowych 🇨🇦 @ourmankoto.bsky.social SF/F Writer | Aurora Award winner | World Fantasy & Locus Award finalist | Editor, Year's Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction, SFWA Nebula Award Showcase anthologies | Ansible Press | Tesla: The Life & Times Podcast | Bonsai enthusiast | 🇨🇦+🇺🇦+🌳
J. Kathleen Cheney @jkcheney.bsky.social Fantasy Writer, publishing as J. Kathleen Cheney or Anna St. Vincent. Member of Codex, Nebula Finalist, Locus Award Finalist, W0TF... but mostly a dog servant these days...
Cover: Vitruvian Moth by Patrick Kramer
Brent Kellmer @brentkellmer.bsky.social Feral writer.
Pronouns he/him.
Currently living in Portland, OR with the most beautiful woman in the world. And three dogs.
Valerie Estelle Frankel📚👩🏫🌌🎲🎮🏰📜🧷🧛🏻♂️🦇🎭✡️✍️🧙🏻🎃 @valeriefrankel.bsky.social 👨🎓Professor, 📚author of 100 books on drwho💫starwars✨outlander #sfwa🚀 #scbwi #kidlit Cali https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004KMCLQK pitch me on #academic #Jewish #sff https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/series/jewish-science-fiction-and-fantasy/
George Mann @georgemann.bsky.social Author and scriptwriter for Disney Lucasfilm Press, Tor, Dark Horse, Vault, Titan, BBC and more. Star Wars, Wychwood, Newbury & Hobbes, the Ghost, Doctor Who, Dark Souls, Dragon Age.
I love D&D, books, comics, folklore and horror movies.
David A. Hirsch (he/him) 🖖🏻 @hirschda.bsky.social Hello, Bluesky, nice to be here! I’m a father, husband, retired high school teacher, amateur writer, book club coordinator, science fiction fan and volunteer, Star Trekker, and proud Galaxy Ranger! 
Lucy A. Snyder @lucyasnyder.bsky.social SISTER, MAIDEN, MONSTER (Tor Nightfire, Titan). 5 Bram Stoker Awards. Shirley Jackson finalist. Work in Strange Horizons, Nightmare, Asimov's, Pseudopod, etc. Clarion grad. 🏳️🌈
www.lucysnyder.com
Rep: @jord4nhill.bsky.social
Cats, aquariums and terrariums
SFWA Leaks @sfwaleaks.bsky.social Anonymous leaks & insights for transparency in the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association.
Amplifying voices, protecting sources, and advocating for a fair, creative community.
DM or secure email for tips.
#SFWALeaks
#TransparencyInSFF
Rosemary Claire Smith @rcwordsmith.bsky.social Writing time travel tales for the past 156 million years; writing book reviews for Analog since 2023; winner of the Sidewise Award for alternate history; rcwordsmith.com
Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social Writer: alternate history, other sf, fantasy, historical fiction. Severely allergic to fascism.
Worldcon In Memoriam @wcinmemoriam.bsky.social A listing of people who will likely appear on the Worldcon In Memoriam list.
Kari Sperring @karisperring.bsky.social Writer, and mediaeval historian (the latter as Kari Maund). With cats. Sometimes political (on the Left). Sometimes musketeers. Cis, demi, she/her. Draws sheep, badly.
Vincent Docherty @vincentdocherty.bsky.social 
Liz Argall @lizargall.bsky.social Co-founder of Ngombor. A community owned and operated organization in NW Uganda, in an Ebola high risk zone. ngombor.org, https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-ngombors-sustainable-future
I’m also a cartoonist and author.
Derek Kunsken @derekkunsken.bsky.social Scifi author. Stories in Asimovs.com, Clarkesworldmagazine.com, Analogsf.com. Asimov and Aurora Award winner. Agented by Eric Showers. He/Him.
The House of Saints: https://geni.us/TheHouseOfSaints
Web: derekkunsken.com
Gary K Wolfe @garykwolfe.bsky.social Critic, obsolete academic
A Wales @azdragonflyz.bsky.social Mum to two cats and a dog. Master’s graduate. Girlguiding Leader. Avid Whovian and Bluey fan.
Nicholas Whyte 白怀珂 @nwhyte.bsky.social He/him. International affairs strategist & expert, science fiction fan, psephologist; posts personal. Will block rude people and bigots.
http://fromtheheartofeurope.eu
Johnny Eponymous @johnnyeponymous.bsky.social Hugo winner for Best Fanzine, I wrote the book Food & Crime, Podcasts, painting, True Crime, art history, and movie stuff! 
Helen Montgomery @helenmontgomery.bsky.social Social Worker, Convention Runner, Hockey Fan. Former Midwesterner now in Seattle. Kalamazoo College grad, Loyola University Chicago MSW grad. 
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).
Chuck Serface @chuckserface.bsky.social I'm a co-editor and frequent contributor with The Drink Tank and a nine-time finalist for the Hugo Award for Best Fanzine with Team Journey Planet. I also work for my local government doing crisis intervention counseling. chuckserface.com
L. D. Lewis, Sea Witch Apologist 🧜🏾♀️ @ldlewiswrites.blacksky.app SFF writer/editor/publisher. ATL/SEA.
Literary nonprofit person. Ignytes mother. Awards doer. Hugo/Locus Winner. Conrunner. LEGO builder. Joy enthusiast. 77% Cake. Bi. Grumpy. She/her/chef. 🏳️🌈 YEAR OF THE MER (Saga/Titan, OUT NOW). Ldlewiswrites.com
Nathan Lucas @placeofname.bsky.social reader, writer, coffee needer...
Mark W. Tiedemann @markwt.bsky.social Writer, reader, amalgam of odd alloys and relevant irrelevancies. Author of Granger's Crossing, The Secantis Sequence, Gravity Box and Other Spaces, and various other things. www.marktiedemann.com
John Klima @gumboeditor.bsky.social John Klima published the Hugo Award-winning genre zine Electric Velocipede. He also edited four critically acclaimed anthologies. John also writes his own fiction and works as a freelance editor. He and his family live in the Midwest.
MTH @megt.bsky.social SFF author. PhD in mass comm, anthro/archaeo, folklore, environment. Freelance writer/editor. Grantmaking and public policy. Operator at defunct farm. Cheesehead 🧀 Badger alum. Reposts not necessarily an endorsement.
web: https://oaklandhillsfarm.com
Lettie Prell @lettie-prell.bsky.social Science fiction & fantasy writer. Stories in Analog, Clarkesworld, Tordotcom, Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, etc. SFWA/Codex. Foodie and cat lover. Active in League of Women Voters. She/her. http://www.lettieprell.com.
William "My Gray" Shunn @shunn.net Writer • Puzzlemaker • Hugo/Nebula Nominee • Author of THE ACCIDENTAL TERRORIST • That Manuscript Format Guy • @sbsolver.com • @tylogr.am • NYC • He/him/Bill • https://lnk.bio/shunn
Matthew Appleton @thetalkingmoose.net Neurosparkly, geeky, non-normative cis hetero husband, dad, and domesticated weirdo/misanthropic secular humanist. Also fanatical about music, MST3K, Star Trek, SF&F lit, Lego, and the Phillies.
Christine Taylor-Butler @ctaylorbutler.bsky.social Author, servant of cats, Visiting MIT Scholar
Parsec.Confluence.ParsecInk.WorD @parseconfluenceink.bsky.social Parsec: www.parsec-sff.org
Confluence speculative fiction conference: www.confluence-sff.org
Parsec Ink Triangulation spec fid anthology series. Est 2003: www.parsecink.com
WorD: Writing and Critique group. www.word-pgh.com
Teresa Nielsen Hayden @tnh.nielsenhayden.com Editor, writer, teacher, moderator, pottery maker, keeper of hamsters, skiffy trufan, high lyric baritone, old lady, neener neener. Also, @tnh@wandering.shop.