SF Scholars
Collecting together the scholars and critics who work on science fiction, fantasy, horror and all that speculative fiction jazz. Largely translating a similar list I had on twitter, if you should be on here let me know
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@grmorgan.bsky.social
@kartook.bsky.social
PhD in myth, religious studies, and fantasy fiction. Expertise on Wicked, fairy tales, and transmedial adaptation. 1/3 of the Danse Macabre project on gothic dance. QA and Acreditations Manager in HE. Mum of 2 kids with additional needs.
@timothysmiller.bsky.social
fantasy, science fiction, medieval studies, plants he/him unicorn book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-53425-6 Earthsea book: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-24640-1
@stephenshapiro.bsky.social
Edinburgh based: read my scholarly books below! I work on contemporary cultural studies, horror, world-systems perspectives, and a Gramscian Marx.
@mariettarosetta.bsky.social
Lecturer in Fantasy Literature at Glasgow Uni. Working on speculative fiction, representations of reproduction, medical humanities. Series editor Palgrave SFF: A New Canon. Twin Peaks/Blindboy obsessive. https://glasgow.academia.edu/AnnaMcFarlane
@witchywonderer.bsky.social
malaysian editor, writer, translator, theatre maker | editor-in-chief at @khoreo.bsky.social | phd in decolonial seasian sff | co-creator and librettist Asian Pirate Musical 🏴☠️ | she/they/dia/伊 ✨| zhuiningchang.com
@andrecarrington.bsky.social
Author of Speculative Blackness/editor of The Black Fantastic & professor, but mostly #birds & dog dad, aspiring plant gay https://dredf.org/protect-504/ insta: audio.futurism
@gillianpolack.bsky.social
Writer, historian, educator, foodie. Maker of seriously bad jokes.
@lyuguangzhao.bsky.social
Lecturer in English and Comparative Literature at Fudan University, Author of The Boom & The Boom (2024), PhD at UCL, “Support a New Scholar” at SFRA
@amycoles.bsky.social
Doctor of English Literature | Gothic, Sci-Fi, Horror, Monsters, Popular Culture | Currently writing “Eight Archetypes of the Double” and “Dickens’s Gothic” | she/her
@riacheyne.bsky.social
Liverpool-based academic. Disability, medical humanities, genre fiction, neurodiversity, accessibility and inclusion in HE. #DisabilityStudies #MedHums Disability, Literature, Genre book (Liverpool UP, 2019) #OpenAccess at https://shorturl.at/5ykqk
@davecl.bsky.social
Astrophysicist at Imperial College London. Works with space missions like Herschel and Planck, on extragalactic astronomy, observational cosmology and astrobiology. Ask about phosphine on Venus! Also writes science fiction. Not speaking for anybody
@tiffaniangus.bsky.social
Multi awards-shortlisted SFFH & non-fic author. Editor & typesetter. SPEC FIC FOR NEWBIES 3 coming 2026! https://linktr.ee/tiffaniangusauthor Leftie, feminist, ex academic, ally, anti-AI. she/her. Now 🇬🇧 was 🇺🇸
@nalohop.bsky.social
Award-winning author of prose & comics, maker of food and small objects she/her/hers http://nalohopkinson.com
@maryannemohanraj.bsky.social
Writer, professor, arts administrator, school board member, cook. Founder of Strange Horizons, Director of Speculative Literature Foundation. She/her. Books here: https://serendibshop.com. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Anne_Mohanraj
@drkatedevlin.bsky.social
Academic; writer. Professor of AI & Society, Chair-Director @kings-dfi.bsky.social, King’s College London. Come for the sex robots; stay for the eye-rolling at AI nonsense on a daily basis. #academicsky . Norn Irish in Norwich.
@halduncan.com
Writer, editor, gardener--sometimes even in that order. Queer. He/thon, but mainly just cause thon's a guid Scots pronoun fur aebdy, whitever thur gender. Contact: hal AT halduncan DOT com
@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
@tobiasbuckell.bsky.social
Grenadian-born, Virgin Island raised, Ohio settled, SF/F author. I also teach creative writing as a prof. Views my own. More at http://www.tobiasbuckell.com
@interzone.press
a European magazine publishing fiction and non-fiction Subscribe: https://interzone.press/patreon Get issues: https://shop.interzone.press Listen: https://interzone.press/pod Banner art by Carly A-F Posts by Gareth Jelley
@jonathanthornton.bsky.social
Writer for The Fantasy Hive, Tor dot com, Gingernuts Of Horror. Books reviews editor for Foundation. Entomology technician at LSTM. Lover of cats, books, music, starships, gardening
@jonathanstrahan.bsky.social
Freelance anthologist. Consulting Editor, Tor.com. Reviews Editor, Locus www.locusmag.com. Co-host, The Coode Street Podcast jonathanstrahan.podbean.com. Hugo and World Fantasy Award recipient.
@hawkwinglb.bsky.social
Ph.D Classics. Reviews @ Reactor Magazine (ex. Tor.com) and Locus Magazine. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hawkwing_lb Wordpress: https://lizbourke.wordpress.com Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@hawkwing_lb
@abigailnussbaum.bsky.social
Blogger, critic, 2017 best fan writer Hugo winner. Blogs at wrongquestions.blogspot.com and www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com Review collection TRACK CHANGES available at briardenebooks.uk/shop/
@fiyahlitmag.bsky.social
Award-winning Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction. • Home of #FiyahLitMag, #FIYAHCON. • Submissions CLOSED. Publisher + Executive Editor: @davaun.bsky.social
@gautambhatia88.bsky.social
Science Fiction. Constitutional Law. Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference.
@thehubble101.bsky.social
Aberystwyth-based writer, researcher, critic, academic. Nonbinary (they/them)🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️. Columnist, Vector: #SFFResistance. Blogs on SFF at Prospective Cultures - current topics: #ScottishSFF #CriticismForInterestingTimes. https://linktr.ee/nick_hubble
@ansiblemag.bsky.social
Writer, editor of sf newsletter Ansible, co-editor with John Clute of the SF Encyclopedia, publisher as Ansible Editions. See https://ansible.uk/ -- Ansible Editions, https://ae.ansible.uk/ -- Ansible website with all back issues, https://news.ansible.uk.
@dimitrafimi.bsky.social
#Tolkien expert, Professor of #Fantasy and Children’s Literature at the University of Glasgow. Co-Director: Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic Website: http://dimitrafimi.com
@vallescurarule.bsky.social
Co-author of Spec Fic for Newbies 1 & 2; author of Neil Jordan: Works for the Page; Sturgeon, BSFA, & BFA finalist; Locus Rec List; stories in Year's Best SF, Best of British SF, Interzone, Andromeda Spaceways, ParSec, Nature Futures... He/Him
@alisonbaker01.bsky.social
BA Primary lecturer at UEL. Children's fantasy literature researcher. Podcast host at Fantasy Book Swap. Trans rights are human rights. No DMs without asking first. I am a prolific blocker.
@stewarthotston.com
Author, LARP (Curious Pastimes), physics and finance. Subjective Chaos and BFA finalist. Treasurer @BFS, Exec @BSFA. Rep: John Baker at BLM. Read: stewarthotston.com. Project Hanuman Nov 2025, Angry Robot
@rblemberg.bsky.social
RB (they/them). Immigrant, SFF writer + academic. Neurodivergent. Le Guin Prize Shortlist 2023. Nebula, Ignyte, World Fantasy, Locus and Crawford finalist. Views always my own. <3 דאָיִקייט http://rblemberg.net/ https://patreon.com/rblemberg
@mbonsall.bsky.social
Ballardian | digitizer | concordancer | code art https://fentonville.co.uk/digital-ballard/
@jonlewis.bsky.social
20th/21st C literature, SF/F, and composition. He/him. 'Contemporary Science Fiction and The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics,' forthcoming, Bloomsbury Books
@danhartland.bsky.social
Writes, variously. Reviews Editor, Strange Horizons. Columns at Ancillary Review. Songs over at Bandcamp. Also see @savinglives.bsky.social.
@jameskneale.bsky.social
Cultural/historical geographer at ucl working on drink/temperance, insurance, literary geographies, sf/fantastic/horror, &c. He/him. Journal of Victorian Culture co-editor @jofvictculture.bsky.social Drinking Studies Network starter pack gardener
@nickdavie.bsky.social
Film/Television PhD Researcher @ UoN: arthouse, authorship, formalism in Twin Peaks: The Return. Here for the Garmonbozia. @ whalefromtv on Twitter/X, words for various. Nickdavie.wordpress.com
@clarkeaward.bsky.social
The Arthur C. Clarke Award science fiction book of the year. clarkeaward.com
@runalongwomble.bsky.social
Womble of Liverpool. Enjoys geekery, bad jokes & may tempt a bit. pronouns - he/they/Womble Also Book Blogger/Tempter run fast, laugh hard, be kind - https://www.runalongtheshelves.net
@nyrsf.bsky.social
35 Years of Reading Science Fiction Like It Matters. Currently on a pause, coming back soon. http://www.nyrsf.com
@benrobertson.bsky.social
@nomad93.bsky.social
I live in transit and specialize in everything but particularly in science fiction, ocular media, House of Leaves, dark musics, indie games, California, unpopular culture, Coil, outsider art, digital literature, Mass Effect, archives, and Southland Tales.
@danhf.bsky.social
All-purpose movie guy and media studies scholar @ Utrecht University. Intransigent curmudgeon. Forthcoming: books on the political economy of the Fast & Furious franchise and a minute-by-minute analysis of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
@gerrycanavan.bsky.social
Doomsayer, Utopologist. Minor but representative. Professor of 20th- and 21st-Century Literature at Marquette University.
@bsfa.bsky.social
The British Science Fiction Association. Est 1958. Publisher of Vector, Focus, and the BSFA Review. Join us at http://bsfa.co.uk/join-the-bsfa
@epikt.bsky.social
Critic in residency at the Institute of Impure Science. He/him. Failure wizard. Views not those of my employer except by accident.
@theblochian.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature & Culture at Birkbeck, University of London. Executive Director of @openlibhums.bsky.social & Co-Director of @ojcollective.bsky.social. Utopia, mushrooms, trees, sci-fi, weird stuff, open access, higher ed.
@klnoone.bsky.social
writer, professor, medievalist, lgbtq romance author, happily married bisexual, she/they pronouns, fan of craft beer & board games
@strangehorizons.bsky.social
Publishing speculative fiction, poetry, reviews, & articles Mondays, free to read at http://strangehorizons.com. IGNYTE Community Award winner. Hugo Award winner 2024. linktr.ee/strangehorizons
@megintransition.bsky.social
PhD belief & gods in fantasy @angliaruskin, work in R&D @UofGlasgow, DH Promotions @Glasgowin2024. Tendency to pun-escalate. She/Her Cis/Bi 🌈🏳️🌈
@yenooi.bsky.social
Narrative designer, writer, editor, researcher @ intersection of culture/technology, excited about zoefuturism. Rep: @abirfellows.bsky.social Rén: the ancient Chinese art of finding peace and fulfilment (book) Road to Guangdong (game) www.yenooi.com
@older.bsky.social
nerd with narrative disorder • humanitarian • sociopunk • evidence-based creativity • speculative resistance • predictive fictions • INFOMOCRACY • THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES • …AND OTHER DISASTERS • GlobalVoices.org • ASU-CSI • opinions my own
@adamroberts.bsky.social
Writer, FRSL. Prof, RHUL. Literature and science fiction. https://profadamroberts.substack.com/
@alothian.bsky.social
Scholar and sometimes practitioner of queer speculation, critical fandom, digital social justice, and feminist world building. Associate Professor in the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at University of Maryland.
@kbuse.bsky.social
I study science fiction, cultures of science and technology, environmental & digital media. Assistant Prof. at University of Chicago Cinema and Media Studies and CEGU. Speculative Planetology! 🪐🌍🌔
@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!
@chaosbogey.bsky.social
dissertating anthropologist, lapsed lawyer, occasional critic. https://chaosbogey.com
@sarahlohmann.bsky.social
Academic working on science fiction, utopian studies, climate fiction and the Gothic. German/American/British, based in Tübingen, Germany and soon Zurich, Switzerland. Into cats, plants, choir, yoga, trail running and socialism. 🌹🌱
@shewolfmanc.bsky.social
Freelance Wondermonger & Heritage Manager at the Pankhurst Centre. Author of a book about Hannah Beswick, the Manchester Mummy. My alter ego is Hannah Kate (North Manchester FM).
@locusmag.bsky.social
Locus Magazine: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror. The Guide to the World's Imagination. https://locusmag.com linktr.ee/locusmagazine
@sfrareview.bsky.social
Reviews, Articles, and Updates from the SFRA since 1971 https://sfrareview.org/ Posts by @cephalopoda.bsky.social
@amycchambers.bsky.social
science/culture • history/theory • media #WomenInSTEM #SciEnt #SciComm #WomenMakeSF #WomenMakeSFPod she/her/Dr | https://linktr.ee/amycchambers
@amandarees.bsky.social
Historian of science working on histories of the future, the nature of human/animal relationships, and relationships between science and religion, as well as histories of the field sciences. Will witter on about SF at the drop of a warp drive. Cymraes.
@oddityofwings.bsky.social
SFF, gothic, time&gender&history, Victoriana. Time travelling women historians are my jam. UEA History, sometimes UEA LDC. FHEA, Expat PA/VA. Wrangler of academics, books, & words. Sometime flutist. #wiasn Views own; she/her.
@lykarar.bsky.social
Union activist. Conlang enthusiast. Higher education exponent and worker bee. Liberation advocate and campaigner. Disabled immigrant.
@tonykeen58.bsky.social
Teacher/academic/classicist/critic/reviewer/sf fan. Writes on classical reception & popular culture, comics, & Doctor Who. Available for talks. UK. He/him.
@josietaylor.bsky.social
Researcher of Energy Transition and Community Narratives in Ireland at UCD. Bipolar rage and love. Beyond Gender Research Collective Member
@cherylmorgan.bsky.social
Writer, editor, publisher. Science fiction and fantasy, also queer history. Welsh. May rant about rugby.
@bschillace.brandyschillace.com
Author+Historian 🧪🗃️, Mystery Novelist, Host of Peculiar Book Club, as seen on THE UNBELIEVABLE. Nonfiction: THE INTERMEDIARIES #trans rights history. Latest mystery: FRAMED WOMEN OF ARDEMORE HOUSE. @SciAm @WSJ @wired #ActuallyAutistic #NB she/her
@anyahvdl.bsky.social
Lecturer in Eng Lit; 📚 'Monstrous Textualities', 'Posthuman Gothic', 'Writing Romantic Climate Change'. Probably on a train right now. Still masking. She/they/whatever.
@byzantienne.bsky.social
speculative fiction (Teixcalaan series, ROSE/HOUSE), climate & energy policy (New Mexico, 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.
@annaleen.bsky.social
bestselling author * Hugo winner * nerd latest books: Stories Are Weapons, The Terraformers bylines: New Scientist, Washington Post, etc. pod: www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com pronouns: they/them all the stuff: www.techsploitation.com
@sztockmann.bsky.social
Book nerd interested in utopia/dystopia, SF & modernism. Senior Lecturer in English Lit. Currently thinking about deserts (& usually also dessert) ✡️🌈He/him
@anarresproject.bsky.social
The Anarres Project is a forum for conversations, ideas, and initiatives that promote a future free of domination, exploitation, oppression, war, and empire. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AnarresProject
@unamccormack.bsky.social
NYT bestselling and BSFA award-winning writer. Intersectional feminist science fiction with Gold SF. Fighting the long defeat since December 1981. https://linktr.ee/unamccormack
@isdoighliom.bsky.social
Reader, writer, teacher. Literature professor @unioflimerick.bsky.social. West Cork-based gardener and cat servant, with @siobhanodowd.bsky.social. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇮🇪
@markusschwarz.bsky.social
phd @ university of salzburg // thinking about black and indigenous speculations, ecology, and the unsettled cosmos. he/him.
@dracopoullos.bsky.social
Klein Librarian for Science Fiction & Fantasy @ UC Riverside. Yale Ph.D. SFWA. HWA. Work in F&SF, The Dark, & more! Rep: Angeline Rodriguez, WME Books. 🏳️🌈🇨🇾
@catherinespooner.bsky.social
Academic and creative writer | Professor of Literature and Culture, Lancaster University | all things Gothic | fashion | folk horror | she/her
@tpmoylan.bsky.social
Utopian citizen, writer, teacher. Professor Emeritus, Ralahine Centre for Utopian Studies, University of Limerick.
@reginakanyuwang.bsky.social
Writer, scholar, editor based in Oslo/Shanghai. Ph.D in cultural studies from University of Oslo, MFA in in creative writing & BA in management science from Fudan University. Multiple Chinese Nebula Award winner, Hugo and Locus Award Finalist.
@larsschmeink.bsky.social
Futures Studies and Science Fiction Studies Researcher, based in Germany
@guynes.bsky.social
critic and cultural historian of sff + acquiring editor, Lever Press (@leverpress.bsky.social / esp. American studies, Asian studies, film and media studies, literary studies, and more) + read more: seanguynes.com
@melanieamarotta.bsky.social
Visiting Assistant Teaching Professor, English & Gender, Sexuality & Women's Studies at William & Mary | Monograph: African American Female Heroes: 21st c YA Neo-Slave Narrative #upmiss | Researching YA and Horror | She
@smittermeier.bsky.social
Largely unknown historian @ Uni Kassel Versität. “Smart heavy hitter” doing work on pop culture (Disney, TV) & queer history. Does stand up comedy. Frustrated idealist. Very bisexual. Podcast @infrontofira.bsky.social. https://linktr.ee/sabrinamittermeier
@virginiaconn.bsky.social
-Socialist SF -Chinese SF -really embarrassing powerlifting
@sfencyclopedia.bsky.social
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction -- founded 1979, Hugo winner for 1979, 1993 and 2011 editions, now free online at https://sf-encyclopedia.com/ with principal editors John Clute and David Langford.
@sffoundation.bsky.social
Founded by George Hay in 1971, the SFF promotes the study and understanding of science fiction, both in the UK and overseas. Home to the journal Foundation and the SFF Collection at Liverpool. Become a member at www.sf-foundation.org and support our work!
@ancillaryreview.bsky.social
culture, power, speculation https://ancillaryreviewofbooks.org/ Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AncillaryReview
@grmorgan.bsky.social
Head of Collections and Principal Curator at The Science Museum, London | Storyteller | PhD | Sometime Lecturer, Interviewer, Writer | He/Him | Views mine | https://linktr.ee/glynmorgan