Resist: Tales from a Future Worth Fighting Against

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Saladin Ahmed’s first novel, Throne of the Crescent Moon, was nominated for the Hugo and Nebula Awards and won the Locus Award for Best First Novel. His short fiction, essays, and poems have appeared in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Slate, Salon, and BuzzFeed. Recently he has focused on comics, winning the Eisner Award for Best New Series for Black Bolt, and penning the critically-acclaimed Exiles and Quicksilver: No Surrender for Marvel Comics. Saladin has also created the original series Abbott, an occult thriller set in 1970s Detroit, for Boom Studios.

Leigh Alexander is a writer of futurist fiction and interactive entertainment. She was recently narrative director on the acclaimed game Reigns: Her Majesty, and her digital culture writing has appeared in The Guardian, The Columbia Journalism Review, Motherboard, the New Statesman and more. She is the author of Breathing Machine, a memoir of early internet society, and her occasional ASMR video series “Lo-Fi Let’s Play” explores ancient computer adventure games. More projects can be found at leighalexander.net.

Violet Allen is a writer based in Chicago, Illinois. Her work has appeared in Lightspeed, Liminal Stories, Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy, and elsewhere. She is currently working very hard every day on her debut novel and definitely has more than ten pages written, is not lying to her agent about having more than ten pages written and does not spend most of her time listening to podcasts, and everything is totally cool, I promise. She can be reached on Twitter at @blipstress.

Charlie Jane Anders’ next novel is The City in the Middle of the Night, which comes out in February 2019. She’s also the author of All the Birds in the Sky, which won the Nebula, Crawford, and Locus awards, and Choir Boy, which won a Lambda Literary Award. She’s also written a novella called Rock Manning Goes For Broke and a short story collection called Six Months, Three Days, Five Others. Her short fiction has appeared on Tor.com, and in Boston Review, Tin House, Conjunctions, the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Wired Magazine, Slate, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Lightspeed, ZYZZYVA, Catamaran Literary Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and tons of anthologies. Her story “Six Months, Three Days” won a Hugo Award, and her story “Don’t Press Charges And I Won’t Sue” won the Theodore Sturgeon Award. She also organizes the monthly Writers With Drinks reading series.

Jason Arnopp is a novelist and scriptwriter. He is the author of the terrifying Orbit Books novel The Last Days Of Jack Sparks, acclaimed by the likes of Ron Howard, Sarah Lotz, and Alan Moore. His previous work includes Doctor Who and Friday The 13th tie-in fiction, BBC Radio 4 comedy, Beast In The Basement, A Sincere Warning About The Entity In Your Home, Auto Rewind, and the 2011 Edinburgh International Film Festival selection Stormhouse. His background is in journalism, which has informed his non-fiction books From The Front Lines Of Rock and How To Interview Doctor Who, Ozzy Osbourne And Everyone Else. He lives in Brighton, UK and can be found at JasonArnopp.com and on Twitter as @JasonArnopp. Sign up for his newsletter and download a free book: bit.ly/ArnoppList.

Elizabeth Bear was born on the same day as Frodo and Bilbo Baggins, but in a different year. She is the Hugo, Sturgeon, Locus, and Campbell Award winning author of nearly 30 novels (The most recent is Karen Memory, a Weird West adventure from Tor) and over a hundred short stories. She lives in Massachusetts with her partner, writer Scott Lynch, three adventurous cats, and an elderly and opinionated dog.

Desirina Boskovich’s short fiction has been published in Clarkesworld, Lightspeed, Nightmare, F&SF, Kaleidotrope, PodCastle, Drabblecast, and anthologies such as The Apocalypse Triptych, What the #@&% Is That? and 2084. Her debut novella, Never Now Always, was published in 2017 by Broken Eye Books. She is also the editor of It Came From the North: An Anthology of Finnish Speculative Fiction (Cheeky Frawg, 2013), and together with Jeff VanderMeer, co-author of The Steampunk User’s Manual (Abrams Image, 2014). Her next project is Starships & Sorcerers: The Secret History of Science Fiction, forthcoming from Abrams Image. Find Desirina online at www.desirinaboskovich.com.

C. Robert Cargill is a novelist, former film critic, and a screenwriter on Marvel’s Doctor Strange and both of the Sinister films. His recent novel Sea of Rust was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. He lives and works in Austin, Texas.

Delilah S. Dawson is the New York Times bestselling author of Star Wars: Phasma, the Blud series, the Hit series, Servants of the Storm, and the Shadow series, beginning with Wake of Vultures and written as Lila Bowen. With Kevin Hearne, she co-writes the Tales of Pell, starting with Kill the Farm Boy. Her comics include the creator-owned Ladycastle and Sparrowhawk as well as Star Wars Adventures, Star Wars Forces of Destiny, The X-Files Case Files, Adventure Time, Labyrinth, Rick and Morty, and Spider-Man. Find her online at whimsydark.com. Delilah lives in Florida with her family.

Kieron Gillen is a writer and critic based in London. He is best known as the co-creator of the award-winning comics The Wicked + Divine and Phonogram. He is also the co-creator of the not award-winning comic series DIE, but that’s not out yet, so he doesn’t feel too bad about its lack of critical notices. His work for Marvel comics include Star Wars, Uncanny X-men, Darth Vader, Iron Man, Doctor Aphra, the GLAAD award-winning Young Avengers and many more. He likes to think of this as less as experimenting with prose, and more like writing an overlong caption. As anyone who has read his comics will know, he is all too at home with overlong captions.

Kevin Hearne is the author of the Iron Druid Chronicles, the Seven Kennings trilogy, and co-author of the Tales of Pell with Delilah S. Dawson. He likes tacos and despises fascism.

Hugh Howey has wanted nothing more in life than to be Han Solo. Since starships are not yet a thing, he spent his years working as a bookseller while penning tales of more interesting times. Originally self-published with terrible cover art, his novels have since become New York Times bestsellers, translated into over forty languages. He now lives on a catamaran that he’s sailing around the world. He has made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs.

Laura Hudson is the culture editor at The Verge. She was previously an editor at Wired and Offworld, a writer at Feminist Frequency, and the founder and editor-in-chief of ComicsAlliance. She likes cats, games, karaoke, and crushing the patriarchy.

Jake Kerr spent fifteen years as a music industry journalist before his first published story, “The Old Equations,” was nominated for the Nebula Award from the Science Fiction Writers of America and was shortlisted for the Theodore Sturgeon and StorySouth Million Writers awards. His stories have subsequently been published in magazines across the world, broadcast in multiple podcasts, and been published in multiple anthologies and year’s best collections. A graduate of Kenyon College, Kerr studied fiction under Ursula K. Le Guin and Peruvian playwright Alonso Alegria. He lives in Dallas, Texas.

Sarah Kuhn is the author of the popular Heroine Complex novels—a series starring Asian American superheroines. The first book is a Locus bestseller, an RT Reviewers’ Choice Award nominee, and one of the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog’s Best Books of 2016. Upcoming projects include her YA debut—the Japan-set romantic comedy I Love You So Mochi—and a graphic novel about Batgirl Cassandra Cain for DC Comics. Sarah is also a finalist for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer and has penned assorted comics and short fiction about geeks, aliens, romance, and Barbie. Yes, that Barbie.

Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali’s publications include Strange Horizons, Fiyah Magazine, Diabolical Plots, and others. Her fiction has been featured in The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 12 edited by Jonathan Strahan and The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Three edited by Neil Clarke. You can hear her narrations at any of the four Escape Artists podcasts, Far Fetched Fables, and Strange Horizons. She can be found online at http://khaalidah.com.

An (pronounce it “On”) Owomoyela is a neutrois author with a background in web development, linguistics, and weaving chain maille out of stainless steel fencing wire, whose fiction has appeared in a number of venues including Clarkesworld, Asimov’s Science Fiction, Lightspeed, and a handful of Year’s Bests. An’s interests range from pulsars and Cepheid variables to gender studies and nonstandard pronouns, with a plethora of stops in-between. Se can be found online at an.owomoyela.net.

Samuel Peralta is a physicist, entrepreneur, storyteller. His projects have hit the USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestseller lists, and been shortlisted in Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy. His poetry has been spotlighted by the BBC and Best American Poetry. He is the creator of the Future Chronicles anthologies—all of which have, in turn, become Amazon #1 category bestsellers. Samuel has designed nuclear tools, built solar fab plants and worked on optoelectronic start-ups. He is a producer of independent films, one nominated for a Golden Globe. And he cooks a mean risotto. Find more of his work at www.samuelperalta.com.

Beth Revis is a NY Times bestselling author with books available in more than twenty languages. Her next title, Give the Dark my Love, is a dark fantasy about love and death. It will be available this fall. Beth’s other books include the bestselling science fiction trilogy, Across the Universe, and a novel in the Star Wars universe entitled Rebel Rising. She’s the author of two additional novels, numerous short stories, and the non-fiction Paper Hearts series, which aids aspiring writers. A native of North Carolina, Beth is currently working on a new novel for teens. She lives in rural NC with her boys: one husband, one son, and two massive dogs.

Madeleine Roux is the New York Times bestselling author of the Asylum series, as well as the House of Furies series, Allison Hewitt Is Trapped, Sadie Walker Is Stranded, and her upcoming science fiction debut, Salvaged. Her short story contributions can be found in collections like Star Wars: From A Certain Point of View, Scary Out There, and New Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Madeleine lives with her beloved dog in Seattle, Washington.

John Scalzi has decided he really needs a refrigerator exclusively for cheese.

David Wellington is the author of over twenty novels, which have appeared around the world in eight languages. His horror series include Monster Island, 13 Bullets, Frostbite, and Positive. His thriller series starring Afghanistan war veteran Jim Chapel includes Chimera, The Hydra Protocol, and The Cyclops Initiative. He also writes fantasy under the pseudonym David Chandler, and science fiction, including the hit Forsaken Skies trilogy, as D. Nolan Clark. He lives and works in New York City.

Troy L. Wiggins is a writer and editor from Memphis, Tennessee. His short fiction has appeared in the Griots: Sisters of the Spear, Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction From the Margins of History, and Memphis Noir anthologies, and has appeared or is forthcoming in Expanded Horizons, Fireside, Uncanny, and Beneath Ceaseless Skies. His essays and criticism have appeared in the Memphis Flyer, Literary Orphans Magazine, People of Colo(u)r Destroy Science Fiction, Strange Horizons, PEN America, and on Tor.com. Troy is Co-Editor of Fiyah Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, and he blogs frequently about writing, nerd culture, and race at afrofantasy.net. Troy lives in Memphis with his wife, Kimberly, and their two dogs. Follow him on Twitter at @TroyLWiggins.

Fran Wilde’s novels and short stories have been nominated for three Nebula awards, two Hugos, and a World Fantasy Award, and include her Andre Norton- and Compton-Crook-winning debut novel, Updraft (Tor 2015), its sequels, Cloudbound (2016) and Horizon (2017), and the novelette “The Jewel and Her Lapidary” (Tor.com Publishing 2016). Her short stories appear in Asimov’s, Tor.com, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Shimmer, Nature, and the 2017 Year’s Best Dark Fantasy and Horror. She writes for publications including The Washington Post, Tor.com, Clarkesworld, io9.com, and GeekMom.com. You can find her at franwilde.net.

Chet Williamson has written in the field of horror, science fiction, and suspense since 1981. Among his many novels are Second Chance, Hunters, Defenders of the Faith, Ash Wednesday, Reign, and Dreamthorp. His most recent publications are The Night Listener and Others (PS Publishing), and Psycho: Sanitarium, an authorized sequel to Robert Bloch’s classic Psycho (St. Martin’s Press). Over a hundred of his short stories have appeared in such magazines as The New Yorker, Playboy, Esquire, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and many other magazines and anthologies. He has won the International Horror Guild Award, and has been shortlisted for the World Fantasy Award, the HWA’s Stoker Award, and the MWA’s Edgar Award. Nearly all of his works are available in ebook format at the Kindle and Nook Stores. A stage and film actor, he has recorded over fifty unabridged audiobooks, both of his own work and that of many other writers, available at www.audible.com. Follow him on Twitter (@chetwill) or at www.chetwilliamson.com.

Daniel H. Wilson is a Cherokee citizen and author of the New York Times bestselling Robopocalypse and its bestselling sequel Robogenesis, as well as nine other books, including How to Survive a Robot Uprising, Guardian Angels & Other Monsters, and Amped. He earned a PhD in Robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, as well as master’s degrees in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. His latest novel is called The Clockwork Dynasty. Wilson lives in Portland, Oregon.

Charles Yu is the author of three books, and has published work in The New Yorker, Wired, The New York Times, and Slate, among other publications. He has also written for HBO, AMC and FX. His next book is forthcoming from Pantheon.