Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com Veteran freelance games crit & PR. Hyped for indie games & mods. Bylines on RPS, PC Gamer, PCGamesN. Find my work, Steam curation & contact info below - He/Him
Find me elsewhere online at dominictarason.com
Contact email: jdtarason@gmail.com
Tommy Thompson @tommy.aiandgames.com That Scottish AI and games guy...
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Founder of @aiandgames.com
Game AI Programmer & Consultant
Public speaker, educator, nuisance
BAFTA Connect
He-Him, PhD
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Weekly Newsletter: aiandgames.com
YouTube: youtube.com/@aiandgames
Dr Stew Hotston (he/him) @stewarthotston.com Author, LARP (Curious Pastimes), physics, finance. Subjective Chaos, BSFA, BFA finalist. Committee @SoA, Treasurer @BFS, Chair @BSFA.
Rep: John Baker at PFD.
stewarthotston.com
Last novel: The next enemy
Next novel: Mage against the machine (May 27)
Alexandra Sills @belovedofoizys.bsky.social Ancient Historian in the UK.๐ต๐ธ
๐'Gladiators in the Greek World'
Host of @AncientHistory101.org
ADHD + ClusterC. Sweary.
Expect typos.
Birkbeck and Leicester alum
www.ancientalexandra.co.uk
https://linktr.ee/alexandrasills
Cosmo D @cosmoddd.bsky.social Moves Of The Diamond Hand demo out now! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2778240/Moves_Of_The_Diamond_Hand_Demo/ Made Betrayal At Club Low, Tales from Off-Peak City, The Norwood Suite, Off-Peak. 
Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com Known for Old Skies, Blackwell, Technobabylon, Primordia, Unavowed, Hob's Barrow, and more! Working on: Nighthawks, Gilt, [REDACTED] and [REDACTED]. Discord: http://discord.com/invite/kj2mkWs
FLEB @flebpuzzles.bsky.social I make puzzles and puzzle videos.
www.flebpuzzles.com
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Celia @celia-14.bsky.social ๐ Hobbyist gamedev at https://celia14.itch.io
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๐ Big fan of thinky, story-focused, and cute games
๐ท๏ธ She/her
joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social - solo indie @ JCGM ๐ฎ bsky.app/profile/jcgm-games.bsky.social
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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social PREORDER MY DEBUT BOOK OF COMICS: https://publishing.andrewsmcmeel.com/book/beetle-moses-a-comics-menagerie/
Signed comic prints: beetlemoses.bigcartel.com
AP Thomson @apthomson.bsky.social https://store.steampowered.com/app/2364580/Titanium_Court/
Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social Gamedev, Animator at Evening Star. Was Animation Lead on Wanderstop, Dungeons of Dredmor.
Demo reel is here: https://auratriolo.com/
Also find me on mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@MOOMANiBE
Grant Howitt @gshowitt.bsky.social I make roleplaying games, toy soldiers, and bad decisions.
rrdgames.com
Jenny Hamilton @readingtheend.bsky.social she/her. southern geek feminist, genre critic, and scholar of boning. bylines at NYT Book Review, Booklist, Strange Horizons, Lady Business, Reactor. author of SFF romance column Ships in the Night for Reactor.
John Finnemore @johnfinnemore.bsky.social Writer, comedian, actor, puzzle-maker. I'm not really sure what the right word for that last one is.
For now, I'm only here to bags my name in case this one takes off. But I hope it does. 
The Relevant Organs @relevantorgans.bsky.social China's soft-power vanguard, rectifying your thought since 2010. Claiming this handle as an inalienable part of China.
Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social AI and creativity researcher (no, not that kind of AI) at King's College London. I make things that make things. I also livecode, design games and wrote https://linktr.ee/next_level
http://www.possibilityspace.org | they/he/any
Alice @asponge.bsky.social https://readmedottxt.tumblr.com/
Alice Bell @abeewords.bsky.social ๐ GRAVE EXPECTATIONS, DISPLEASURE ISLAND & THE GRAPPLES OF WRATH out now!
โฆ good books โฆ murder โฆ swearing โฆ
Recovering games journalist
#BWithTheT
Rep Stevie Finegan at Zeno
@totalplaytime.com
https://alicebellauthor.com/
Graham Smith @grahamsmith.bsky.social Studio manager/producer @suspicious.dev. Co-founder @jank.cool. Previously: RPS, PC Gamer, Crate & Crowbar, Eurogamer, Dicebreaker.
Jared Pechaฤek @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social It's pronounced PECK-a-check. Artist, Crawford Award-winning writer of THE WEST PASSAGE, third thing now and then. He/him. Seattle. https://linktr.ee/jpechacek repped by Jennifer Azantian. Preorder WHERE FIRE REIGNS, out February 2027 from Tor!
Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social Queen of Lasers, Mother of Storms, & NYT/USAToday bestselling author of Fairyland, Space Opera, Deathless, & many more. Any/All
Art: http://patreon.com/catvalente
Politics: http://catvalente.substack.com
TipJar: https://venmo.com/u/cat-valente
Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com jack of like five to six trades / journalist, author, radio person, art dealer, etc / marie.s.leconte@gmail.com
Niall Harrison @niallharrison.bsky.social reader, critic, fan, he/him
John Walker - Industry Analcyst @botherer.bsky.social Co-creator of Rock Paper Shotgun, currently helping out at Kotaku, and still looking for a new long-term gig.
I write www.buried-treasure.org, unearthing excellent unknown indies. Please consider supporting!
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/buriedtreasure
Liz England @lizardengland.bsky.social Game designer. I post a lot of brunch photos. she/her.
Gareth DAMIAN MARTIN | Jump Over the Age @jumpovertheage.com Writer, game designer, artist | Making SIGNET CITY | WISHLIST NOW - https://bit.ly/SC-Steam
Creator of Citizen Sleeper series + In Other Waters | editor Heterotopias | IndieCade, GDCA winner | Hugo, BAFTA, IGF, DICE + TGA nominee | PhD | they/them |
Katharine Castle @karthupial.bsky.social UX writer. Former games journalist. Views are my own. DFTBA.
https://www.instagram.com/karthupial
Making a Warrior @makingawarrior.bsky.social Research project @Oslo/Uppsala/Reykjavรญk/Copenhagen
Examining viking warriorhood and its representations past and present
Project info: https://www.khm.uio.no/english/research/projects/making-a-warrior
Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com Lawyer, writer, boardgamer, cyclist, tries-not-to-be-a-dickhead-ist.
T-dot 4 life (or until something better comes along).
Likes are "I need to check this out later" and nothing else
Email: mgk (at) (BS handle)
(he/him)
Nicholas Whyte ็ฝๆ็ @nwhyte.bsky.social He/him. International affairs strategist & expert, science fiction fan, psephologist; posts personal. Will block rude people and bigots.
http://fromtheheartofeurope.eu
Quinns @itsquinns.bsky.social Writer & presenter for Quinns Quest & People Make Games. quinnsquest.quintinsdomain@gmail.com
Gavia Baker-Whitelaw @gavia.bsky.social Film and TV critic. Co-host of the Overinvested movie podcast, co-editor of the Rec Center newsletter.
Bylines: TV Guide, Inverse, Vulture, Boston Globe, Atlas Obscura, Empire, etc. she/her
Jenny Chase @solarchase.bsky.social Solar analyst at BloombergNEF, goose keeper. Author of a book, "Solar Power Finance Without the Jargon". Opinions all my own.
Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social Historian, writer, broadcaster. She/her. Latest book, FALLEN IDOLS, shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022. HISTORYโS SECRET HEROES and THE LUCAN OBSESSION on BBC Radio 4. One of the Silk Road Slippers https://www.silkroadslippers.com
Keza MacDonald @mackeza.bsky.social Guardian video games editor, exhausted millennial. Author of SUPER NINTENDO and co-author of YOU DIED: The Dark Souls Companion. She/her ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
https://linktr.ee/super_nintendo
Emily Tesh @emilytesh.net Author. Hugo, Astounding, and World Fantasy Award winner; Nebula, Clarke and Le Guin finalist. Rep: Kurestin Armada at Root Literary.
Out now: THE INCANDESCENT - https://tinyurl.com/theincandescent
Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social Cartoonist and Illustrator. My book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS, is available now! www.tomgauld.com
Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Annihilation. Agent Joe Veltre at Gersh / speaker bureau Authors Unbound. To contact, use the contact form at jeffvandermeer.com. PDX, anti AI, he/him
Vajra Chandrasekera @vajra.me Writer, Colombo. Wrote THE SAINT OF BRIGHT DOORS (2023, Nebula, Ignyte, Crawford, and Locus awards) & RAKESFALL (2024, Le Guin Prize and Otherwise award.) https://vajra.me
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/
Laura @lauropea.bsky.social historian and philologist
antiquities, manuscripts & rare books cataloguer
putting the t back into incunabula since 2025
danubius me tollit, sprea me vocat
Ryan North @ryannorth.ca You know, the @qwantz.com guy! The How To [Invent Everything | Take Over The World] guy? The Fantastic Four / Flash / Squirrel Girl guy? The non-linear Shakespeare guy? The "stuck in a hole with his dog" guy?
Look... I'm a lot of guys
๐ ryannorth.ca
Ed Fortune @edfortune.com Journalist/Columnist for Starburst Magazine, print & online.
Popculture media type, covering books, games,TV, films,theatre & tech.
Podcaster, D&D person, that sort of thing.
He/Him. Edinburgh.
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).
Adri Joy @adrijjy.bsky.social (She/her) once and future editor-criric at Hugo and Ignyte winning SFF fanzine NERDS OF A FEATHER, FLOCK TOGETHER. Dog person, ocean enjoyer, I like being elsewhere.
Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social Author: Children of Time, Shadows of the Apt, Final Architecture, City of Last Chances and others. adriantchaikovsky.com
Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social Associate editor and columnist @financialtimes.com. Post too often about culture, public policy, management, politics, nerd stuff, Arsenal the champions, wosoc. Wow! (center) Try my UK politics newsletter for free here: www.ft.com/tryinsidepolitics
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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
๐ ft.com/jbm
Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social "Top egghead neuroscientist" - The Daily Star
Author, science communicator/pundit, former psychiatry lecturer, occasional wit, frazzled parent, balding
The Idiot Brain 10 Year Anniversary Edition : https://amzn.eu/d/3GVTx02
Eurovision Drinking Game @eurovisiondrinking.com โYouโre gonna need a bigger glass.โ This is the fault of Terry Wogan and Graham Norton. A little fun made by @cackhanded.net
eurovisiondrinking.com
Adrian Hon @adrianhon.bsky.social Made Zombies, Run! and Perplex City, wrote You've Been Played and A History of the Future in 100 Objects.
Associate Artist at the Traverse Theatre. Writing a book about immersive art.
Blog: mssv.net
Larp: strandfall.com
Video: youtube.com/adrianhon
Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com Wrote some books, won some awards. Strong feelings about plants. She/her
Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social Historian. Pods: Past Lives. Tides of History. Books: "The Verge." "Lost Worlds." pwymanusc at gmail. Enthusiast. https://linktr.ee/patrickwyman
Lawrence Freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social Emeritus Professor of War Studies King's College London. Latest Book Strategists and Strategy: collected essays, 2014-2024. Substack Comment is Freed https://samf.substack.com/
jamelle @jamellebouie.net The real jbouie. Columnist for the New York Times Opinion section. Co-host of the Unclear and Present Danger podcast. b-boy-bouiebaisse on TikTok. jbouienyt on Twitch. National program director of the CHUM Group.
Send me your mutual aid requests.
BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social Deputy editor at Foreign Policy, China nerd, gaming nerd, reads a lot. Never again a country without consequences.
Leah Stokes @leahstokes.bsky.social Professor of climate + energy policy at UCSB. Alumni of MIT, Columbia and UToronto. Hosts "A Matter of Degrees" podcast. Cuts carbon pollution! Proudly ๐จ๐ฆ Gardener ๐ฑ leahstokes.com; Newsletter: electricnotes.news
The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social King, Lovecraft, Koontz, Poe, Barker & others telling stories round the campfire. Header by David Mumford. Three (3) x Hugo Nominee. Posts by Bitter Karella. www.midnightpals.com
Jennifer @demeterchthonia.bsky.social 
Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR: HOW THE 9/11 ERA DESTABILIZED AMERICA & PRODUCED TRUMP, contributor to Zeteo. Sometimes I write comics too. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for โnatsecโ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com
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Brainmage.itch.io @brainmage.bsky.social Comedian/award-winning game maker/writer/voice artist #AuDHD (he/him)
Photos: http://hyperfocus.photography
Stream: http://Twitch.tv/brainmage
Tips: http://ko-fi.com/guy
VO reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04UiLVl6n0I
https://www.guykelly.co.uk
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
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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
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
Arkady Martine | Dr. AnnaLinden Weller @byzantienne.bsky.social speculative fiction (Teixcalaan series, ROSE/HOUSE), climate & energy policy (all statements my own), Byzantinist (nonpracticing but never not true).
unfortunately, I care about power lines now
she/her. halfway between Santa Fe and NYC.
Max Gladstone @maxgladstone.bsky.social NYT bestselling writer. Newsletter and updates at maxgladstone.com. More or less updates-only on here.
robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social the tallest child in the world!! https://www.robertjacksonbennett.com/the-french-drain-i-dug-back-in-2019
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social Ancient & military historian specializing in the Roman economy and military. PhD from UNC History. More impressive credential is that I have beaten both Dark Souls and Elden Ring.
Blogs at acoup.blog
The Age of Napoleon Podcast @ageofnapoleon.bsky.social A history podcast about the Napoleonic era
Mike Duncan @mikeduncan.bsky.social History podcaster/author. Revolutions + The History of Rome
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.
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
Kieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social Words for sale.
Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/KieronGillen/
Comics: https://bindings.app/shelf/1FLv6kLb
Website: www.kierongillen.com
Jim Rossignol @rossignol.bsky.social Writer. Makes books, games.
Co-founded Rock, Paper, Shotgun and Big Robot (Sir, You Are Being Hunted). Now: TEETH RPG, MILESHIPS. And https://oldmenrunningtheworld.com/
email: jim at big-robot.com
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 โBeforecastโ
Jim Waterson @jim.londoncentric.media Journalist. Editor of @londoncentric.media, a modern news outlet covering London in the old-fashioned way: www.londoncentric.media jim@londoncentric.media
Ryan Broderick @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social Chilling online. I write a newsletter called Garbage Day.
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
Tom Brewster @tombrewster.bsky.social ๐ SU&SD ๐ / kinda on hiatus
John Bull @garius.bsky.social He/Him. Writer. Historian. Host of "The Untitled History Podcast." Strategy streamer. Tech Strategist. Founding Editor of @lonrec. Orient fan. Business/Writing: business@longformist.co.uk. Agent: @pastpreservers.bsky.social
Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social narrative director at Firaxis. emergent/systemic storytelling. nominated for awards and things. lit PhD. awful at Greek. better profile coming soon.