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.

Sarah Pratt is an avid fiction writer and a Marketing Consultant.

She is currently working on her first novel but loves diving into short stories to bring a little lightness, intrigue or humour to the day.

Her work has appeared in Sponge Magazine and The Commuting Book.

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) 

Ed lives with his wife plus a magical assortment of native animals in tropical North Queensland.

His efforts at wallaby wrangling are without parallel — at least in this universe.

He enjoys reading and writing science-fiction stories set within intriguing, yet plausible contexts, and invite readers’ “willing suspension of disbelief.”

He believes stories might also contain an element of humour — however small — to enrich the plot and/or heighten the drama.

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>

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.

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>.

Alistair Lloyd is a Melbourne based writer and narrator who has been consuming good quality science fiction and fantasy most of his life.

You may find him on Twitter as <@mr_al> and online at <alistairlloyd.com>.

Geraldine Borella writes adult short stories and stories for children and has been published in anthologies for both. In 2018, one of her children’s short stories placed second in The Buzz Words Short Story Prize and she won an ASA Emerging Writer’s Mentorship. She currently works part-time as a hospital pharmacist and as an online creative writing tutor.

She’s fascinated by stories that expand upon today’s technology, addressing the moral and ethical issues that might arise. Equally, she enjoys the creative freedom that writing for children allows. Right now, she’s writing a young adult novel, reworking a middle grade novel and writing adult short stories when inspiration strikes. She lives with her husband, Tim, in Yungaburra, Far North Queensland and dreams of one day taking a European gap year.

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.

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 and The Tiger's Eye (YA/Fantasy) White Fire (Sci-Fi) and The Good, the Bad and the Undecided (a unique collection of short stories set during the events of White Fire/Sci-Fi). 

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

Rambles, writing and amusing musings

Smile! laugh out loud! enjoy the following

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Ranju Mamachan is on the run from the Indian police for habitually appearing at private brothels, uninvited, inebriated, and dressed as Santa Claus for some reason. He usually arrives in a sledge being pulled by six dalmatians dressed as reindeers and then immediately begins the attempt to climb the chimney whilst shouting, “HOHOHO.”

When Ranju Mamachan is not shopping for antler-look-alikes on e-bay or training his neighbor's dalmatians, he is working on his long sci-fi novel which he hopes will win him the Booker Prize but won’t complain even if it’s only the Nobel Prize.

Previously published in...

Rigorous mag: https://rigorous-mag.com/v4i4/ranju-mamachan.html

Cabinet of Heed: https://cabinetofheed.com/2021/11/07/our-finest-moment-ranju-mamachan/

Story titled Killing Superman published in Chaicopy: https://issuu.com/chaicopy/docs/ripples

Robbie Sheerin was born in Scotland but now lives in the USA.

He writes short stories in his spare time and has been published in various online and paperback literacy magazines.

He is a fan of classic sci-fi, and such writers as Bradbury, Asimov, Heinlein, and Silverberg.

He is the author of the book, Tales From Another Dimension; A Sci-fi Collection. Available on Amazon. 

Robbie can be reached at his website: <www.talesfromanotherdimension.com>

During her MFA in fiction, Elizabeth Broadbent was a top-ten finalist in William Faulkner-William Wisdom Award's novel-in-progress category; in the same year, her novella placed as a semifinalist.

After having children, she turned to nonfiction; her essays have appeared The Washington Post, Insider, and Time; a six-year staff writer for Scary Mommy, the largest parenting site on the web, Broadbent wrote about everything from chestfeeding to true crime. 

Her speculative prose poetry has appeared in Bewildering Stories and Down in the Dirt. 

John Bohr grew up in Sydney, Australia, with an unhealthy fascination for funnelweb spiders and steam engines.

Although writing under a pseudonym tempts him to claim he is an intelligence officer, an ex-submarine captain who took a cuttlefish to the knee, or an astronaut who was experimented on as a child, he is unfortunately a white collar worker with an unimaginative employer.

This is his first published story. @SoBohring

A graduate of University of South Florida, James is a behavioral scientist with degrees in psychology and anthropology.

He is a writer of both fact and fiction and his work appears regularly in numerous professional journals as well as featured in the pages of magazines such as Fate, Aboriginal Science Fiction, Journal of Compressed Creative Arts, and will be seen in the September installment of Close to the Bone.

He is also founder of James R. Coffey Writing Services and Resource Center.

Callan J. Mulligan’s first published piece was a poem about dragons — he was five years old. Since then, he hopes he has improved as a writer.

Working in call centres and marketing agencies, he spent his spare time writing music, creative non-fiction, and ideas for epic novels. At the age of 29 he wrote his debut novella, A Mind of His Own. It received critical acclaim and nominations for several literary awards.

His recent novel, Astraeus, broke into amazon's bestselling science-fiction lists, alongside titles such as James SA Corey's The Expanse, and Frank Herbert's Dune. The sequel is due for release in early 2023.

You can learn more — and get a free book, from <https://callanjmulligan.com>

Andrew writes science-fiction and fantasy from the state of Maryland on the eastern coast of the United States, often drawing ideas from jogs through forest trails at sunrise or a tasty beer at sunset. 

Andrew writes each story with the goal of giving readers something they will enjoy, without relying on the typical, predictable, or cliche'. His work has previously appeared in AntipodeanSF, 365 Tomorrows, and soon Daily Science Fiction. 

When Andrew isn't writing chances are he's playing guitar or bass, exploring abandoned places, or spending quality time with a bulldog. Andrew hopes you enjoy this story, and he will continue to try and write stories that you'll love to read! 

Tee Linden is a writer based south of Sydney.

Her work was longlisted for the 2019 Richell Prize and her short fiction has appeared in anthologies from Margaret River Press, Deadset Press, PS Publishing and various literary magazines.

Find more of her writing at <www.teelinden.com>

I began writing in 2011 using speech recognition software. My first story 'What If’ was published in ‘AntipodeanSF’ in Jan 2012. My short story ‘Serratoria’ appeared in the ‘AntipodeanSF 250’ anthology in 2019. I am currently working on a sequel titled ‘Return to Serratoria’

I enjoy the creativity of writing and my stories reflect my passions, namely science, nature, and all things science fiction.

I am a senior citizen, and live in Western Australia with my husband. 

 My Science Fiction novel, 'Upload', was published in 2018. For more details and a complete list of my stories go to my website at <https://christaleyes.com>

PS Cottier is a poet who lives in Canberra, with a particular interest in speculative poetry.

She has been published widely at home and in Canada, England, New Zealand and the USA.

Two of her horror poems were finalists in the Australian Shadows Awards for 2020. Her latest books are Monstrous, which is a volume of speculative poems, and Utterly, which is non-genre.

PS Cottier is the Poetry Editor at The Canberra Times and blogs at <https://pscottier.com>

Old enough to just remember the first manned Moon landing, Kevin was so impressed he made science his life.

Retired now from teaching he amuses himself by reading, writing, following his love of weather and correcting people on the internet.

He’s been writing since his teens and hopes he will one day get it right.

He can be found on twitter @KevinPhyland where he goes by the handle of CaptainZero and his work is around the place if you search using google or use the antisf.com.au archive.

KJ Hannah Greenberg has been playing with words for an awfully long time. Initially a rhetoric professor and a National Endowment for the Humanities Scholar, she shed her academic laurels to romp around with a prickle of imaginary hedgehogs.

Thereafter, she's been nominated once for The Best of the Net in poetry, three times for the Pushcart Prize in Literature for poetry, once for the Pushcart Prize in Literature for fiction, once for the Million Writers Award for fiction, and once for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. To boot, Hannah’s had more than three dozen books published and has served as an editor for several literary journals.

Find out more at her website: <http://kjhannahgreenberg.net/>.