Autographing: Sunday at 10:00

Lauren Beukes is the award-winning South African author of six novels, a short story collection and NYT-best-selling graphic novels, including Zoo City which won the Arthur C Clarke Award and the Kitschies Red Tentacle, The Shining Girls, now a major AppleTV show with Elisabeth Moss, and, most recently, the reality-bending mother-daughter-dreamworm novel, Bridge. Her work has been translated into 25 languages and she’s also worked in kids animation, TV scriptwriting and directed an award-winning documentary.

Alastair Reynolds is a former space scientist turned full-time science fiction writer. He is the author of more than twenty novels and around eighty short stories. He has been shortlisted for the Hugo, Clarke, & Philip K Dick awards, and has won the BSFA, Locus, Seiun, Sidewise and European Science Fiction society awards. He and his wife live in Wales.

CE Murphy began writing around age six, when she submitted three poems to a school publication. The teacher producing the magazine selected (inevitably) the one she thought was by far the worst, but also told her–a six year old kid–to keep writing, which she has. She has also held the usual grab-bag of jobs usually seen in an authorial biography, including public library volunteer (at ages 9 and 10; it’s clear she was doomed to a career involving books), archival assistant, cannery worker, and web designer. Writing books is better. She was born and raised in Alaska, and now lives with her family in her ancestral homeland of Ireland.

Daryl Gregory’s novels and short stories have been translated into a dozen languages and have won multiple awards, including the World Fantasy and Shirley Jackson awards, and have been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula, Edgar, Locus, Lambda, and Sturgeon awards. His latest books are the novel Revelator and the novella The Album of Dr. Moreau. His eight other books include Spoonbenders, We Are All Completely Fine, Afterparty, the Crawford-Award-winning novel Pandemonium, and the collection Unpossible and Other Stories. He’s written for TV and and is a regular instructor at the Viable Paradise Writing Workshop.

James Patrick Kelly has won the Nebula, Hugo and Locus awards. Jim’s most recent books are The First Law of of Thermodynaics Plus (2021), a collection in PM Press’s Outspoken Author series, King Of The Dogs, Queen Of The Cats (2020), a novella from Subterranean Press. He writes a column about the internet for Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine and has a novelette and a novella forthcoming in 2024 in that publication. With John Kessel, he has co-edited five anthologies, including Rewired, the Post-Cyberpunk Anthology and Digital Rapture, the Singularity Anthology.

RJ Barker is a critically acclaimed and award-winning author of fantasy fiction. He won the 2020 British Fantasy Society (BFS) Robert Holdstock award for Best Novel for his fourth novel, The Bone Ships.

His debut trilogy The Wounded Kingdom (Age of Assassins, Blood of Assassins and King of Assassins) was nominated for the David Gemmel Award, the Kitschie Golden Tentacle, The Compton Crook and the BFS Best Debut and Best Novel awards. It was called ‘Thoroughly entertaining and constantly impressive’ by the Fantasy Hive, ‘One of the best fantasy series you will ever read’ by the BFS, and ‘A singular sensational new voice in epic fantasy’ by Kings of the Wyld author Nicholas Eames.

He followed this with the award-winning Tide Child Trilogy: The Bone Ships, Call of the Bone Ships and The Bone Ships Wake. These books have been hailed as ‘One of the most interesting and original fantasy worlds I’ve seen in years; by Adrian Tchaikovsky, and ‘Brilliant’ by Robin Hobb, alongside rave reviews in Starburst, SFX, and a starred review in Bookslist: ‘A unique and memorable world – harsh and brutal and full of fully realized, powerful female characters. Barker has managed to craft a story inspired by Moby Dick, Game of Thrones, and pirate lore, and readers will be drawn in and fascinated.’

His next series, The Forsaken Trilogy, is set within the bounds of a forest straight out of darkest folklore – with outlaws fighting an evil empire and warring deities. The first book, Gods of the Wyrdwood, was published in 2023 by Orbit.

RJ lives in Leeds with his wife, son and a collection of questionable taxidermy, odd art, scary music and more books than they have room for. He grew up reading whatever he could get his hands on, and has always been ‘that one with the book in his pocket.’ Having played in rock bands before deciding he was a rubbish musician, RJ returned to his first love, fiction.

S.B. Divya is a lover of science, math, fiction, and the Oxford comma. She is the Hugo and Nebula nominated author of Meru and Machinehood. Her short stories have appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies, and she is a former editor of Escape Pod, the weekly science fiction podcast. Divya holds degrees in Computational Neuroscience and Signal Processing. She worked for twenty years as an electrical engineer before becoming an author. Born in Pondicherry, India, Divya now resides in Southern California with her spouse, child, and two fur babies. She enjoys subverting expectations and breaking stereotypes whenever she can.

Sarah Langan‘s an award-winning novelist and screenwriter. Her most recent novel, A Better World, is out now. She’s also the author of Good Neighbors, The Keeper, The Missing, and Audrey’s Door. She has an MS in Environmental Toxicology from NYU, and lives in Los Angeles with her husband, daughters, and maniac rabbits.