Bart van der Griendt's Starter Pack
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@scalzi.com
I enjoy pie. Social Media FAQ: https://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
@lincolnproject.us
"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” – Abraham Lincoln 🏴☠️ | Home of #TheBreakdown and LP Podcast
@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)
@chuckwendig.bsky.social
I like apples. I post photos. I dig birds. I write books. The next book is THE STAIRCASE IN THE WOODS, April 2025. Yes, I'm cringe. What do you want from me, I'm a 48-year-old dad and my brain is a mouse-eaten shoebox.
@charliejane.bsky.social
Author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster (Tor Books, 2025), about a woman who teaches her mother how to do magic — and uncovers a queer scandal hidden in a 300 year old book. SFF book critic @WashingtonPost.com. Co-host @ouropinions.bsky.social.
@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social
NYT bestselling author of the Southern Reach series, including Absolution. Repped by Joe Veltre at Gersh. Gigs: The Tuesday Agency. he/him
@marthawells.com
SF/F Writer - The Books of the Raksura, The Murderbot Diaries, Witch King, and more. Nebula and Hugo Award winner. NYT and Sunday Times Bestseller. (She/her) Agent: Jennifer Jackson
@aptshadow.bsky.social
Author: Children of Time, Shadows of the Apt, Final Architecture, City of Last Chances and others. adriantchaikovsky.com
@cstross.bsky.social
SFF author, triple Hugo award winner, over a million books sold. Mostly on Mastodon: @cstross@wandering.shop Blog: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/
@maryrobinettekowal.com
Hugo-award winning author, narrator, and professional puppeteer. Also has a talking cat. The Martian Contingency is available where books are sold.
@amalelmohtar.com
Wrote half of This Is How You Lose the Time War. Next book: The River Has Roots, March 4, 2025. I have a newsletter you can sign up for at amalelmohtar.com
@premeemohamed.com
Writer, scientist, bug. she/her. #yeg. 🇨🇦 🇬🇾 Winner of a Nebula, World Fantasy, Ignyte, and Aurora award! Hugo, BSFA, BFA, Locus, Crawford award finalist. 📚🪲 Rep: Michael Curry. www.premeemohamed.com
@ianbremmer.com
president of @eurasiagroup.net and @gzeromedia.com political scientist, author. if you're not following some people you dislike, you're doing it wrong. i'm happy to help.
@clarkesworldmagazine.com
Neil Clarke: Editor of Clarkesworld Magazine, The Best Science Fiction of the Year series, and more. Three-time Hugo Award Winner for Best Editor Short Form. Four-time Chesley Award-winning art director. clarkesworldmagazine.com neil-clarke.com
@paulcornell.bsky.social
Writer of SFF in TV, books, comics, audio and games! (Doctor Who, I Walk With Monsters, Lychford.) He/him. #comics #sciencefiction #doctorwho Free newsletter: https://pauls-newsletter-2914ab.beehiiv.com/ New podcast: https://www.patreon.com/TelefantasyT
@matociquala.bsky.social
Multiple award winning science fiction author. Cat furniture. Horse patsy. Almost certainly two ornimegalonyxes in a trenchcoat. Newsletter: https://buttondown.email/matociquala Next book: THE FOLDED SKY June 2025 https://books2read.com/u/mBB0QZ
@garethlpowell.bsky.social
Award-winning science fiction author. FUTURE’S EDGE out now. Editor at Stars and Sabers Publishing. Also wrote a Doctor Who novel. Rep: Lucienne Diver. https://linktr.ee/garethlpowell
@aliettedebodard.com
Engineer. SFF Writer. Triple Nebula Award winner. Việt/French. Asian auntie. Weird. She/Her. Queer. 🏳️🌈 Loves tea. Profile: @yendraws @readatmidnight
@tadethompson.bsky.social
Writer: Rosewater, Murders of Molly Southbourne, Far from the Light of Heaven, Making Wolf, Jackdaw, shorts, screenplays. Arthur C. Clarke Award winner. Hugo nominated. Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Etcetera Opinions mine. He/him
@laurenbeukes.com
Novelist, TV writer, comics writer and recovering journalist. Winner of the Arthur C Clarke and the University of Johannesburg Prize. Author of The Shining Girls (now on Apple TV) Zoo City and multiverse-lost-mother-thriller, BRIDGE - out now
@rachelahandley.com
Philosopher @ucdphilosophy.bsky.social🦉 SFF Author. Poet. They/Them. Dublin. rachelahandley.com
@joeabercrombie.com
Lord Grimdark (self-appointed). Writer of the First Law and Shattered Sea books. Part-time Witch King of Nihilism, deep in a Jaded Literary Sewer, etc. etc.
@hannahyangwrites.bsky.social
Professional daydreamer. Locus Award finalist. Stories in Apex, Analog, Clarkesworld, Nightmare. SFWA. 📖 Rep’d by Rebecca Eskildsen at Writers House. Read my work: hannahyang.com/stories Subscribe: hannahyang.com/newsletter
@ruthejbooth.bsky.social
SFFH Author/Critic. BSFA & British Fantasy Award Winner. Shoreline of Infinity columnist. GSFWC. #SGSAH funded. #StrathLife Queer Neurodivergent Human with Chronic Illness. ***2024 award eligible works and more: https://linktr.ee/ruthejbooth
@stinaleicht.bsky.social
SFF #author PERSEPHONE STATION, LOKI'S RING she/they Feminist queer ADHD PTSD Dyslexic. Agent: Hannah Bowman Publisher: Saga Press New SF/Space Opera coming soon: HELIX FALLS
@bookshelfie.bsky.social
The Self-Pub Hub (Indie Book Review Site) Accepting book submissions now! https://book-shelfie.com/submit-book/
@jasonsanford.bsky.social
Archaeologist turned author with a science fiction take on life. Author of Plague Birds, member of SFWA and SPJ. He/His. Represented by Lucienne Diver. www.jasonsanford.com
@effjayem.bsky.social
SF fan, writer etc etc. 🏴🌈🏳️⚧️ Author of The Pleasant Profession of Robert A. Heinlein and Rhetorics of Fantasy. Publishing a book on Joanna Russ's The Female Man with Luna Press in 2026. Pre Order now!
@cornellwriter.bsky.social
Nebula, Aurora, and World Fantasy-nominated Chilean-Canadian writer. Winner Short Works Prize. SFWA, CSFFA, ALCiFF Chile. Odyssey ’02. Codex. Stories in Apex, Fantasy, Lightspeed, and others. Linktree: http://linktr.ee/pacornell
@monicabyrne13.bsky.social
Writer living on the road, currently in Vietnam. Buy THE ACTUAL STAR: https://www.monicabyrne.org/the-actual-star. Reps at CAA, DG&B, and Kaplan/Perrone. She/her. monicabyrne.substack.com patreon.com/monicabyrne
@emmanewman.bsky.social
SFF author (Planetfall sequence, Split Worlds series, The Vengeance), audiobook narrator, podcaster, tea drinker. Loves LARP, dressmaking and nerdery. www.linktr.ee/emma_newman
@philbc3.bsky.social
Does political sociology @DerbyUni | Blogger | Author: 'The Party's Over: The Rise and Fall of the Conservatives from Thatcher to Sunak' | Bylines @Tribune & @Jacobin | Bits of SF too | Writes things: http://averypublicsociologist.blogspot.co.uk
@rykaaoki.bsky.social
Science-fiction writer and stuff. ✨🎻🍩🚀🎵💖 Agent: Meredith Kaffel Simonoff.
@adamroberts.bsky.social
Writer, FRSL. Prof, RHUL. Literature and science fiction. https://profadamroberts.substack.com/
@unlikelyworlds.bsky.social
Stay Awake. Latest novel: Beyond the Burn Line Incoming (12th Feb 2026): Loss Protocol Working on: Heaven's Grand Design Website: https://www.unlikelyworlds.co.uk Agent: Oliver Cheetham at Mic Cheetham Agency
@abraham.bsky.social
Novelist, screenwriter, and the James half of James SA Corey. He/him office@danielabraham.com
@saraluckelman.bsky.social
#Logician, #Onomast, #Medievalist, #AcademicMama, #Author, #Immigrant, founder of SFFReviews.com and @EllipsisImprint. Co-president of @ducu. Own views. Robot.
@octavia-cade.bsky.social
New Zealand writer, PhD science communication! Seven time SJV winner. Author of The Stone Wētā, The Impossible Resurrection of Grief, and You Are My Sunshine and Other Stories. Robert Burns Fellow for 2025 at Otago University.
@clarkeaward.bsky.social
The Arthur C. Clarke Award science fiction book of the year. https://beacons.ai/clarkeaward
@urbanbarbarian.bsky.social
I like you. Creator @ Marvel, DC Comics, Image Comics, BOOM Studios, Mad Cave Studios, Dark Horse Comics, Dynamite Comics
@emilyinkpen.bsky.social
Sci-fi and fantasy author, writer of The Dex Legacy BSFA Award-winning audio drama, Social Media Officer @BSFA, gamer, bi, proud epileptic and aspiring grown-up 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@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.’
@edfortune.bsky.social
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.
@verabrook.bsky.social
Neuroscientist turned science fiction, fantasy, romance #writer. Stories in Analog, Escape Pod, Cast of Wonders, Utopia SF. Latest novel: THE MISFIT & THE BEAST, YA romance about first love & high school theater. Based in Edinburgh. verabrook.com. she/her
@bsky.app
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@bartvandergriendt.bsky.social
Vakidiote merk- en UX-ontwerper bij underflow.studio. Poëzieliefhebber en -schrijver. Typografie-nerd. Pianoman. Het moet wel een beetje ziel hebben. Hyperfocus op karakter, bij mensen en merken. Overal het beste woord voor. Wannabe Gandalf.