Jeremy Szal is an Australian space opera and fantasy author. From 2014 to 2020, he was the fiction editor and audio producer for the Hugo-winning podcast StarShipSofa. Authors he's worked with on the show include George R. R. Martin, Harlan Ellison, and William Gibson. Jeremy’s first novel, Stormblood, was published by Gollancz in 2020, with the sequel Blindspace following in 2021.

David Walton is an American science fiction author. His first novel, Terminal Mind, won the 2008 Philip K. Dick Award for the best SF paperback published in the United States for that year. In 2018, his book The Genius Plague won John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel. The Wall Street Journal wrote that “Walton has brought hard sci-fi roaring back to life.”