Ion Newcombe is the editor and publisher of AntipodeanSF, Australia’s longest running online speculative fiction magazine, regularly issued since January 1998, and conceived back around November 2007. He has been a zealous reader and occasional writer of SF since his childhood in the 1960s, and even sold a few stories here and there back in the '90s.

“Nuke”, who it turns out loves editing more than writing, lives in the New South Wales North Coast holiday destination of Nambucca Heads, where he is self-employed in IT training, computer support, desktop publishing, editing, writing, and website implementation. He is also the resident tech-head, skeptic, and board member of community radio station 2NVR, where he produces a number of shows including The AntipodeanSF Radio Show.

Mark Webb's midlife crisis came in the form of attempting to write speculative fiction at a very slow pace. His wife maintains this is a good outcome considering the more expensive and cliched alternatives. Evidence of Mark's attempts to procrastinate in his writing, including general musings and reviews of books he has been reading, can be found at www.markwebb.name.

One of Mark’s very best forms of writing procrastination is to produce the eBook series for AntipodeanSF, which he has been doing since issue 175.

Terry Persun’s poems and stories have appeared in many magazines including Wisconsin Review, Kansas Quarterly, Riverrun, Rattle, Hiram Poetry Review, Bluestem, NEBO, Cirque, Eclipse, Bacopa, and many others.

His poems have appeared in six, chapbooks and five collections.

He was recently included in the 2019 Rhysling Anthology for sicnce fiction and fantasy poetry. He is also a novelist and has recently won first place in the Book Excellence Awards for science fiction.

Terry speaks at writers’ conferences and universities across the country. <www.TerryPersun.com>.

Joshua Bealson is a Washington, DC-based bilingual and bi-cultural author, gardener, and traveler.

He seeks to help people discover a world outside their own through fiction, cross-cultural narratives, history, and stories about our place in the world.

He was the Hugo Awards Ceremony Director at Worldcon 75 in Helsinki & Worldcon 77 in Dublin.

He Tweets <@joshuabealson>.

Marcel Gherman was born in 1978, in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova. Since the age of 15, he has published over 100 articles and essays in the press in Moldova, and for over a decade has had regular columns in cultural magazines Sud-Est Cultural and Contrafort. Between 1994 and 2003 Marcel hosted weekly shows on electronic music at Radio Moldova — and makes his own music under the pseudonym Megatone. 

Mr Gherman currently works as secretary in charge ofthe magazine Sud-Est Cultural, and writes prose and essays in his native Romanian language. He is a member of the Writers Union of Moldova, the Writers Union of Romania and of the International PEN Club.

He is two-times winner of the Writers Union of Moldova Award —for "Debut", 2012, and at the category Books for Children and Youth, 2015, the City Hall of Chisinau Award for Youth in the category Literature, 2012, and the Publishers Union of Moldova Award 2015.

Published books: "Cartea viselor" (The Book of Dreams), Arc Publishing House, 2011; fantasy short fiction "Generatia Matrix" (The Matrix Generation), 2013; essays "Cer albastru deasupra Arcadiei" (Blue Skies Over Arcadia), Prut Publishing House, 2014; science-fiction novel for teenagers "Universuri paralele" (Parallel Universes), Stiinta Publishing House, 2017, (includes science-fiction modular novel Multiverse, darkfantasy novel "Last Testament of the Kingdom of Nirgalia", and the collection of fantasy short stories "Tales from the Realm of Pandava").

James Stothard has loved fiction since he was a child and used to read all day if he could get away with it.

Now he spends much of his time coming up with fantastical characters and creations such as the time-looping Two of Three King, the labyrinthine Weirdways, and the dimension warping Umbra Engine.

He hopes to one day become a professional writer and share his ideas with the rest of the world.

Conor Ross is a student and avid traveller.

He is either studying literature in Melbourne or else somewhere else on the planet teaching English as a second language.

A great fan of being useless he finds literature to be the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

Maree Collie loves the idea of Flash Fiction. So much to say in such alittle space. She also dabbles in short stories, monologues and plays.

Maree has had pieces published in anthologies, a play performed in 2018, and a monologue slated for performance October 2019.

She hascompleted a BA in Professional and Creative Writing at DeakinUniversity.

Brenda Anderson’s fiction has appeared in various places including ASIM, Daily Science Fiction and Flash Fiction Online. She lives in Grange, SA, and tweets irregularly @CinnamonShops.

Susan Cornford is a retired public servant, living in Perth, Western Australia, with pieces published or forthcoming in 50-Word Stories, Akashic Books, Antipodean Science Fiction, CarpeArte Journal, Ghost Parachute, Medusa’s Laugh, Speculative 66, Subtle Fiction, Switchblade, The Fable Online, The Gambler, The Vignette Review and The Were-Traveler.

She considers herself an emerging flash writer.

Paul Sheringham lives and works in Coffs Harbour, as a species project coordinator for several threatened plant species.

He has his renewed passion for field botany in recent times, a recent stroke having limited his ability to run marathons. He hopes to publish a flora field guide of the Gibraltar Range National Park.

A proficient bathroom guitarist and singer, he has been learning several Triffids songs, and learning about their brilliant lead singer David McComb, which has influenced his story “Wrong Turn.”

Nicholas Sheppard is a software engineer and academic based in Wollongong, New South Wales. He has read science fiction and fantasy since encountering The Hobbit in primary school, but somehow found himself writing tedious articles on information security at university. For lighter reading, he has written on the history of science for Cockatrice, on science fiction and economics for Aurealis, and fiction for AntipodeanSF.

husband, father, brother, son
poet, writer, artist, friend (et al.)
the list of pigeon holes
into which I fit, is endless

By Terry Persun

Billions of bytes of data pass
            through the ships cables
            the electronics hardware
            for decades or centuries.

We’re all encased in pods
            of treated and frozen stasis
            waiting for the opening door
            to allow us to live again.

Without a thought we agreed
            and were sent away forever
            wishing to be the first
            to find something new.

Yet everything could end early
            a mistake in programming
            parameters changing
            one small glitch.

About the Author

Terry Persun

Terry Persun’s poems and stories have appeared in many magazines including Wisconsin Review, Kansas Quarterly, Riverrun, Rattle, Hiram Poetry Review, Bluestem, NEBO, Cirque, Eclipse, Bacopa, and many others.

His poems have appeared in six, chapbooks and five collections.

He was recently included in the 2019 Rhysling Anthology for sicnce fiction and fantasy poetry. He is also a novelist and has recently won first place in the Book Excellence Awards for science fiction.

Terry speaks at writers’ conferences and universities across the country. <www.TerryPersun.com>.

David Whitaker is originally from the UK though has travelled around a bit and now resides in India. He has a degree in Journalism, however decided that as he’s always preferred making things up it should ultimately become a resource rather than a profession.

His stories, covering everything from sci-fi to philosophy, have been published across the globe and links to each can be found at <wordsbydavid.com>

Timothy Gwyn is a professional pilot in Canada, where he flies to remote communities. During a lull in his flying career, he was a radio announcer for three years, and he is also an author.

In addition to short stories at AntipodeanSF and NewMyths.com, his SF novel is available internationally in print and ebook formats. "Avians" draws on his love of alternative aviation to tell the tale of a girl who runs away from home to join a cadre of glider pilots on a world without metal or fossil fuels.

On Twitter, he is @timothygwyn, and his blogs are at <timothygwyn.com>.

Laurie Bell lives in Melbourne, Australia. She was that girl you found with her nose always buried in a book. She has been writing ever since she was a little girl and first picked up a pen. From books to short stories, radio plays to snippets of ideas and reading them aloud to anyone who will listen.

She is the author of The Butterfly Stone (YA/ Fantasy — available now) and White Fire (Sci Fi — available now)

You can read more of her work on her blog Look for her on Facebook <www.facebook.com/WriterLaurieBell/> or Twitter: <@LaurienotLori>

Pixie is a voice actor, cabaret performer & slam poet From the Blue Mountains in NSW.

She enjoys writing short fiction, plays for radio and stage as well as her own brand of weird poetry.

She hosts the 'Off-Beet Poetry Slam' held bi-monthly in Katoomba, and is a theatre reviewer for 2SER FM in Sydney.

Garry Dean lives on the Mid Coast of New South Wales Australia, and has been a fan of SF for most of his natural life. Being vision impaired, he makes good use of voice recognition and text to speech in order to write. Many of his stories have appeared in AntipodeanSF over the years, and his love of all things audio led him to join the narration team in 2017.

You can read examples of Garry's fiction on his website <https://garrydean.wordpress.com>

Mark is an astrophysicist and space scientist who worked on the Cassini/Huygens mission to Saturn. Following this he worked in computer consultancy, engineering, and high energy research (with a stint at the JET Fusion Torus).

All this science hasn't damped his love of fantasy and science fiction. It has, however, ruined his enjoyment of rainbows, colourful flames on romantic log fires, and rings around the moon. He has previously been published in Stupefying Stories Showcase, Everyday Fiction, Escape Pod, Perihelion and also on AntipodeanSF where he is part of the narration team.

Carolyn's work spans devising, performance, theatre-in-education and a collaborative visual art practice.

She tours children's works to schools nationally with School Performance Tours, is a member of the Bathurst physical theatre ensemble Lingua Franca and one half of darkroom — a visual arts practice with videographer Sean O'Keeffe.

(Photo by Jeremy Belinfante) 

Margaret lives the good life on a small piece of rural New South Wales Australia, with an amazing man, a couple of pets, and several rambunctious wombats.

She feels so lucky to be a part of the AntiSF team.