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    Founder and EIC of Futurist Letters. Writer and director. Bylines in UnHerd, VICE, OMNI, default.blog, Hawkeye. I also make films and write novels.

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    Nuance, honesty and telling it like it is. No teams. I'll piss you off at some point. Civil disagreement is crucial.

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    man of antic dimension

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    i'm walking there

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    Works in The Metropolitan Review, The Republic of Letters, Puerto del Sol, and others. I read, write, and translate.

  • Lillian Wang Selonick

    Reviews of classic literature & sci-fi. Past lives: science publisher, UChicago Classics BA, college radio punk/folk DJ. Chicago-born, DC-based.

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    Serializing a realist otherworld novel entitled "Age of Peace." My tastes and sensibilities are in the line of: Chatwin, Naipaul, Kundera, Coetzee, inter alia.

  • W. G. Lloyd

    Sci fi writer

  • Grace Forrester-Young

    I'm a human based out of the Northwest of the USA. I'm ready to talk regular and this is the place you can see me do that. I'm about to release some wild animals (stories) and I'm gonna release them towards ya.

  • Stephen Pimentel

    Stephen Pimentel is an engineer and essayist in the San Francisco Bay Area. He’s interested in the classics, political philosophy, governance futurism, and AI. You can follow him on X @StephenPiment.

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    JS June is at least 10 years old. He lives in the solar system and enjoys Indian food from its southern regions, like Andhra and Hyderabad. He is at work on his first novel, Blue Angel.

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    Wow!!!!!!!!!!!

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    secrecy-shrouded word alchemist narrating the cosmic background radiation of experience

  • Keith Vile

    Weird stories for weird times (speculative, sci-fi, humor, dark humor, satire). From NJ, USA. Read more at keithvile.medium.com

  • Kate Hodges

    Kate Hodges was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA. She taught science in area schools before moving to the UK where she has had fiction and photographs published. She is working on a graphic novel.

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