S G Bell is the author of more than 100 published academic articles and papers, and several academic books, including recent work on mindfulness and the mechanics of fear. He is Emeritus Professor in Innovation and Methodology at the Open University.
He's fiction is concerned with what happens when technology outstrips the human beings it was built to serve.
S G Bell remains deeply concerned with the sustainability of the human project — and genuinely reassured by the apparently limitless scope of human resourcefulness.
Pinar Guvenc is Partner at SOUR - an award-winning global design studio with the mission to address social and urban problems - where she leads business and design strategy. She is an educator teaching ethical leadership and co-design at Parsons School of Design, MS Strategic Design and Management and School of Visual Arts MFA Interaction Design. Pinar serves on the Board of Directors of Open Style Lab and advises local businesses in NYC through Pratt Center for Community Development. She is a frequent public speaker and lecturer, and is the host of SOUR’s “What's Wrong With: The Podcast”, a discussion series with progress makers in diverse fields across the world.
Alex Shvartsman is the author of Kakistocracy (2023), The Middling Affliction (2022), and Eridani’s Crown (2019) fantasy novels. Over 120 of his stories have appeared in Analog, Nature, Strange Horizons, etc. He won the WSFA Small Press Award for Short Fiction and was a three-time finalist for the Canopus Award for Excellence in Interstellar Fiction.
His translations from Russian have appeared in F&SF, Clarkesworld, Tor.com, Analog, Asimov’s, etc. Alex has edited over a dozen anthologies, including the long-running Unidentified Funny Objects series.
Alex resides in Brooklyn, NY. His website is http://www.alexshvartsman.com.
