B.C. Edwards is the author of two books,The Aversive Clause and From The Standard Cyclopedia of Recipes. He has written for Mathematics Magazine, Hobart, The New York Times, and others. His debut story collection, which this is the titular story of, was awarded the Hudson Prize for fiction and received a poetry fellowship from the New York Foundation of the Arts. He attended the graduate writing program at The New School in New York and lives in Brooklyn with his husband.

His website bce.nyc totally exists, but that’s really all that should be said about it. It’s in desperate need of a redo.

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Egan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from the University of Western Australia.

He published his first work in 1983. He specialises in hard science fiction stories with mathematical and quantum ontology themes, including the nature of consciousness. Other themes include genetics, simulated reality, posthumanism, mind uploading, sexuality, artificial intelligence, and the concept of rational naturalism being superior to religion. He is known for his tendency to deal with complex technical material, like inventive new physics and epistemology, in an unapologetically thorough manner. He is a Hugo Award winner (with eight other works shortlisted for the Hugos) and has also won the John W Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel. His early stories feature strong elements of supernatural horror.

Egan’s short stories have been published in a variety of genre magazines, including regular appearances in Interzone and Asimov’s Science Fiction.

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ego_bot is a human writer who is confident we’re going to make it through all this. His self-published collection, There’s Something Weird Going On: Ten Stories of Existentialist Science Fiction, contains science fiction stories of a more optimistic nature. He is most active on Bluesky.

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Nathan Ehret tends to follow a rigorous daily routine of procrastination. Sometimes, though, a story manages to sneak onto his laptop when he’s looking the other way. He’s fascinated by the unusual and maintains a healthy disdain for the practical. He lives, edits, and teaches English in Vancouver, Canada, and his other stories have been known to end up in places like Perihelion and Electric Spec.

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Serah Eley is the original producer, editor and host of Escape Pod. She mispronounced her name as Steve Eley at the time, but has since realized that life is much more fun as a woman, and came out as transgender in 2015. Serah lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her two spouses (she prefers “spice”), Sadi and Cat.

So if there were ever any betting pools on what happened to Steve: the dark-horse winner is “changed sex and joined a committed lesbian love triangle.” She is, obviously, still Having Fun.

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Petra Elliott is an actor, singer and presenter, who currently spends most days as a game facilitator for Directors of Extraordinary and Great Race Australia, running team building events utilising escape room style puzzles and TV reality game show style challenges. In 2013 she co-hosted the Splendid Chaps podcast celebrating the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary, which led to co-creating and starring in sci-fi time-travel comedy audio series Night Terrace (as heard on BBC Radio 4 Extra). Theatre highlights include Sissy (then) in Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean, Eve Ensler in The Vagina Monologues, Emilia in Othello, Belinda/Flavia in Noises Off, M’lynn in Steel Magnolias. Musicals including Godspell, Cabaret and Les Miserablés, multiple roles in He Died With a Felafel In His Hand, the title role in Peter Pan, Inside Out at La Mama, and Who Killed John Bearington III? and the Melbourne Museum Comedy Tour as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF). She debuted her first solo cabaret show, Petrasexual, in 2014 with return seasons at the Butterfly Club and Adelaide Fringe. In 2015 Petra played Joan Baez in The Road To Woodstock (Chapel Off Chapel) and filmed supernatural television drama Sonnigsburg, later nominated for Best Narrative and/or Fictional program at the 2019 Antenna Awards. As a puppeteer and improviser she was part of The Mighty Little Puppet Show, with multiple story formats at MICF, Adelaide and Melbourne Fringe festivals. The ABC invited her to appear on Whovians to discuss the Twelfth doctor’s performance in Oxygen, in an episode that aired on May 14, 2017.

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Christiana Ellis is an award-winning writer and podcaster, currently living in Massachusetts. Her podcast novel, Nina Kimberly the Merciless was both an inaugural nominee for the 2006 Parsec Award for Best Speculative Fiction: Long Form, as well as a finalist for a 2006 Podcast Peer Award. Nina Kimberly the Merciless is available in print from Dragon Moon Press. Christiana is also the writer, producer and star of Space Casey, a 10-part audiodrama miniseries which won the Gold Mark Time Award for Best Science Fiction Audio Production by the American Society for Science Fiction Audio and the 2008 Parsec Award for Best Science Fiction Audio Drama. In between major projects, Christiana is also the creator and talent of many other podcast productions including Talking About Survivor, Hey, Want to Watch a Movie? and Christiana’s Shallow Thoughts. Her most recent novel: Phyllis Esposito: Interdimensional Private Eye is now available as both print and ebook. All her work can be found at christianaellis.com.

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Matt Ellis is a reformed Army intelligence officer and diplomat paying his dues with freelance interviews and literary criticism while grinding it out as a crime and thriller writer. He’s a 2021/2022 National Book Critics Circle Emerging Critic Fellow and holds an MFA in Fiction at the University of California at Riverside’s Palm Desert program in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts. His work has been featured in Publishers Weekly, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The Coachella Review, Thought Catalog, and Sein und Werden. He and his wife recently abandoned their newly emptied nest for a life of wandering as digital nomads. If you see them out in the world, flag them down and invite them for a drink.

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