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Friday, June 20
 

5:00pm EDT

Opening Ceremonies
Friday June 20, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event Programming)
Come one, come all to Opening Ceremonies!
Guests
avatar for Charles E. Gannon

Charles E. Gannon

LC37 Literary Guest of Honor
Dr. Charles E. Gannon is best known for the Caine Riordan series of hard sf novels, which include multiple best-sellers, 4 finalists for the Nebula, 2 for the Dragon, and a Compton Crook winner. His epic fantasy series, The Vortex of Worlds, has also been an awards finalist and a... Read More →
avatar for Chaz Kemp

Chaz Kemp

LC37 Artist Guest of Honor
Chaz loves SteamPunk, CyberPunk, and Fantasy. SteamPunk and CyberPunk are all about creatively defying authority and forging your own path. It’s resistance as art. Fantasy is all about visualizing your dream and then defying the odds to achieve it no matter who you are or what you... Read More →
avatar for Kim Steadman

Kim Steadman

LC37 STEM Guest of Honor
Kim Steadman received both her Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech. After graduate school, Kim started her career at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. While at JPL, she worked on several missions including the Mars Exploration Rover... Read More →
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Mike Massa

LC37 Master of Ceremonies
Mike Massa has lived an adventurous life, including stints as a sailor, a banker, and a tech-head. He's lived outside the US for several years, beyond the usual military deployments. Mike writes novels and shorts in MilSF, SF, Fantasy, Horror, and non-fiction.A lover of Liberty Con... Read More →
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Ben Yalow

LC37 Special Guest of Honor
Ben Yalow’s very first convention he attended as a fan was Lunacon in 1971, followed later that year by his first Worldcon, Noreascon. Ben first started staffing conventions at the very first Star Trek convention in January 1972, followed by the Worldcon in 1973, Torcon 2. He has... Read More →
avatar for James S. Aaron

James S. Aaron

I'm James Stegall, a guy living in Oregon. I'm currently the author of 14 science fiction novels as James S. Aaron. My work includes the Aeon 14 Sentience Wars with M.D. Cooper, Galactic Law with J.N. Chaney. My latest project is a military science fiction trilogy in Jeffery H. Haskell's... Read More →
avatar for Tim Akers

Tim Akers

Tim Akers is a fantasy novelist, a gamer, and utterly unemployable in the traditional sense. His novels include the dark fantasy Wraithbound, lighter portal series Knight Watch, and high action hard magic world of Bladecaster. He lives in Chicago with his indefatigable wife and a... Read More →
avatar for Tony Andarian

Tony Andarian

Tony Andarian is the author of the Sanctum of the Archmage epic fantasy novels and games. They are published by his personal imprint, Andarian Publishing. Invested from a young age with an overactive imagination, he's had a lifelong love of science fiction, fantasy, computer games... Read More →
avatar for K. Anders

K. Anders

K. Anders is the author of multiple short stories including two which ranked #1 in their respective categories on the Amazon Best Seller list including Science fiction and comedy! His first novel "Dragonsworn" is set to be published by Jumpmaster Press in late summer 2025.
avatar for Rachel Aukes

Rachel Aukes

Rachel Aukes is the bestselling novelist of over forty books, including the Bounty Hunter series with Podium Entertainment. Her post-apocalyptic novel, 100 Days in Deadland, made Suspense Magazine’s Best of the Year list. She writes in a number of genres, including science fiction... Read More →
avatar for David Badurina

David Badurina

David Badurina is a speculative fiction author from the frozen tundra of New Hampshire. David is a father, business owner, 4th degree black belt, host of The MIRTH QUAKE Web Show, and a little too fond of the absurd. In 2024 he released his sci-fi space comedy novel, SPACE PEW PEW... Read More →
avatar for Nathan Balyeat

Nathan Balyeat

A USMC veteran, Nathan has written the fantasy short stories in the "Fellblade" and "Powers of the Night" settings and is working on a science fiction novel based on the life of the William Marshal. He has a degree in history and his hobbies include weightlifting, martial arts, and... Read More →
avatar for Griffin Barber

Griffin Barber

Griffin spent his youth in four different countries, learning three languages, and burning all his bridges. Finally settled in East Tennessee and retired from a day job as a police officer in a major metropolitan department out west, he lives the good life with his lovely wife, crazy-smart... Read More →
avatar for Jim Beall

Jim Beall

Jim Beall (BS-Math, MBA, PE) has been a nuclear engineer for 50 years, beginning as a nuclear engineering officer in the US Navy. Civilian experience includes design, construction, inspection, enforcement, and assessment with a nuclear utility, an architect engineering firm, and the... Read More →
avatar for Rita Beeman

Rita Beeman

Rita Beeman lives with her wiener dogs in Texas, where she loves to tend plants that thrive on her level of neglect.
avatar for Laura Begley

Laura Begley

As a copy editor for Raconteur Press, I have four anthologies to my credit: Goblin Bazaar; From the Brim to the Dregs; Coffee Capers; and Moggie Noir: Dames, Derringers, and Detectives. I also had the pleasure of copy editing “Storm-Dragon,” a boys SF/F action-adventure novel... Read More →
avatar for Ted Begley

Ted Begley

Ted Begley's career has consisted of such fields as cook, farmer, lightning rod salesman, and accountant. He lives in Kentucky with his wife of more than thirty years, Laura, who acts in the capacity of his first reader and editor. He has several short stories published in as many... Read More →
avatar for Tim Bischoff

Tim Bischoff

Tim “Cajun” Bischoff, born in Kentucky and raised in Bourbon country on a dairy farm. Writing along with cooking, fishing and cruising in his restored 1973 Chevelle are some of his passions. Tim has had three short stories published, the newest as author Timothy Hardy in 3 Ravens... Read More →
avatar for David (Brena) Bock

David (Brena) Bock

David Bock (also listed under the nom de plume Brena Bock) is a proud member of #TeamAndMore in several anthologies, including Space Force: Building the Legacy, Can't Go Home Again, and Saint's of Malta. Other stories are in the works along with a full length novel.
avatar for David Bogen

David Bogen

David Bogen (BSEE, PE, Corporate Fellow) has been in the electric utility industry for more than 40 years and has helped implement many changes that analyze, control and monitor the conditions of the electric transmission system. In 1990 David earned his Professional Engineering License... Read More →
avatar for Karen Bogen

Karen Bogen

A cat-loving native of Texas, K.B. Bogen is a self-confessed knit-/yarn-aholic. She spends much time knitting something (with the help of her three cats), inventorying her stash (also with the help of the cats), or fondling yarn anywhere within driving range (the cats don’t like... Read More →
avatar for M.D. Boncher

M.D. Boncher

As an author, artist and musician, M. D. Boncher has lead a “Writer’s Life”. With several careers in many varied industries from security to hospitality to trucking logistics providing him a wide breadth of experience with the human condition from which to draw on for his work... Read More →
avatar for Philip K. Booker

Philip K. Booker

An award-winning editor and genre writer, Philip K. Booker lives near Chattanooga, Tennessee, with his wife and five children collectively known as Clan Booker (trademark pending). Writing stories across any genre, but he focuses on Urban Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror-comedy... Read More →
avatar for Susan Brady

Susan Brady

Susan Brady has been running Make It, Take It since LibertyCon 4. She is into a little bit of everything, and loves making pretty things and playing with feathers and glitter and turning them into incredible, ready to wear costumes. A true Liberty stalwart and creator of a Liberty... Read More →
avatar for Nick Braker

Nick Braker

Nick A. Braker, sci-fi author, crafts thrilling space operas with vivid characters. A computer scientist, he enjoys table tennis and VR with his wife.
avatar for Amy Brewer-Davenport

Amy Brewer-Davenport

Amy Brewer-Davenport is an award winning fantasy artist and lifelong con-goer, always looking for new inspiration or ways to inspire others to create. Through her work she emphasizes whimsy through color, texture, and chance. Along with her studio practice she teaches creativity workshops... Read More →
avatar for Nathan Brindle

Nathan Brindle

Nathan C. Brindle is a senior software engineer with a BA and most of an MA in History. There is a story behind that, of course. He's worked 30 years for a company in Maryland you've probably never heard of, despite living in Indianapolis, Indiana, for all but one year of his life... Read More →
avatar for Bokerah Brumley

Bokerah Brumley

Bokerah Brumley lives on ten permaculture acres, complete with sheep, goats, peacocks, turkeys, geese, guineas, ducks, chickens, five home-educated children, and one husband.
avatar for Douglas Burbey

Douglas Burbey

Doug Burbey is the universe creator of, and author in, the Blood War urban fantasy series. He is constantly preparing to: repel the demon hordes, slay zombies, brew beer and defeat the insidious plots of the bureaucratic machinery. Doug grew up in the Philippines as a military brat... Read More →
avatar for Spearman Burke

Spearman Burke

After retiring from a globe spanning career of swashbuckling adventure in the U.S. Marine Corps, Spearman Burke decided to try his hand at this GI Bill thing he had been hearing about. He earned an interdisciplinary degree in English Literature and Creative Writing with a minor in... Read More →
avatar for Daniel Allen Butler

Daniel Allen Butler

Daniel Allen Butler is a best-selling author, historian, and college-educated semi-professional beach bum. His previous works include "Unsinkable"--the Full Story of RMS Titanic; The Day the Lusitania Died; Warrior Queens - The Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth in World War II; The Age... Read More →
avatar for David (D.J.) Butler

David (D.J.) Butler

Dave (D.J.) Butler has mostly recovered from being a lawyer. He writes fantasy for adults (WITCHY EYE, Baen) and kids (THE KIDNAP PLOT, Knopf), loves languages and board games, and plays bad guitar. He's married and has three kids. Dave is also acquisitions editor for Kevin J. Anderson's... Read More →
avatar for James L. Cambias

James L. Cambias

James L. Cambias is an SF writer and game designer. His most recent novel is The Scarab Mission, in 2023. His short stories have appeared in Nature, F&SF, and several anthologies. His most recent game is Weird War I. He is a partner in Zygote Games and blogs at www.jamescambias.c... Read More →
avatar for Roger and Janet Carden

Roger and Janet Carden

Roger and Janet Carden are the husband-and-wife team behind The Halfling and the Spaceman: Journeys In Active Fandom. (2022-present) The Halfling and the Spaceman is a podcast featuring a series of conversations with creators as they detail their personal journey from becoming inspired... Read More →
avatar for K.B. Carlisle

K.B. Carlisle

KB Carlisle is a husband, father, panda enthusiast, former time traveler and professional desk chair warmer. His debut novel The Book of Rose won the 2024 Imadjin Award for Best Young Adult Novel. Check out all of his work at kbcarlisle.com.
avatar for Richard Cartwright

Richard Cartwright

Richard Cartwright was born and raised in Tennessee when he was not bouncing around the country and Canada in the sleeper of his parents tractor trailer rig that his father bought after retiring from the Navy to go into trucking. His first reading lessons were road signs at four... Read More →
avatar for Debi Chowdhury

Debi Chowdhury

Member of International Costumers Guild, Sick Pups and Noel. Worldcon Masquerade Judge 2023 Chicago, Worldcon Masquerade CoDirector Helsinki 2017, Asst Director Worldcon Masquerade london 2014, Masquerade judge at Philcon, Balticon, Masquerade staff at many conventions. Costume panelist... Read More →
avatar for Stephen Euin Cobb

Stephen Euin Cobb

Stephen Euin Cobb is an author, novelist, magazine writer, futurist, award-winning podcaster, and host of The Interstellar Research Group's video series “From Here to the Stars,” for which he won the Iridani Award in 2021. For over ten years, he produced a weekly podcast, "The... Read More →
avatar for Stewart Cobb

Stewart Cobb

Stewart Cobb designs satellite navigation systems for a living and reads SF&F for inspiration. He earned a PhD in Aerospace Engineering and holds more than a dozen patents. He's been an Air Force officer and a flight controller for the Space Shuttle, but hasn't yet reached orbit... Read More →
avatar for Julie Cochrane

Julie Cochrane

Julie Cochrane was born in Ohio and begin crafting her first stories when she was five years old. She made her first attempts at novels in Social Studies and English classes. Cally's War with John Ringo was the first manuscript she ever finished. Sister Time and Honor of the Clan... Read More →
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Atlanta Radio Theatre Company

Since 1984, the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company has been performing, recording, and broadcasting dramatic audio -- fully dramatized, fully sound-scaped audio drama, far beyond the readings and "audio books" you can find in every bookstore. We like to think that what we do is classic... Read More →
avatar for James Copley

James Copley

James Copley is a former Non-Commissioned Officer of the U.S. Army, having served over twenty-one years in both Active and Reserve/Guard units, variously trained as Infantry, Communications, and Ordnance specialties before finally retiring from the Army National Guard in 2016. During... Read More →
avatar for Jason Cordova

Jason Cordova

Bestselling author Jason Cordova was born in California and is both a John W. Campbell Award and Dragon Award finalist (though not in the same year). He is the editor of the anthology Dancing with Destruction, author of the novel Mountain of Fire, and co-author of Monster Hunter Memoirs... Read More →
avatar for Charli Cox

Charli Cox

Charli Cox writes in multiple genres including SciFi, Military SciFi, and Military Fantasy. She recently finished writing her first novel set in the world of Joint Task Force 13 and is working on a Car Warriors trilogy for Three Ravens Publishing. She is also working on a Fae Wars... Read More →
avatar for Isaac Craft

Isaac Craft

Isaac Craft writes science fiction and fantasy with horror elements. His flash-fiction stories are in nearly a dozen of the Cornerscribblers anthologies via Three Ravens Publishing and continues to work toward honing his craft. When not writing or reading, Isaac does digital illustration... Read More →
avatar for Tammie Darden

Tammie Darden

Tammie Darden is an everyday scientist in charge of a small production lab. Much to her surprise her work and insight has been found useful to story development by author friends. Academically she continues her studies independently with a special emphasis on food science (which encompasses... Read More →
avatar for Dr. Ben Davis

Dr. Ben Davis

Ben Davis has a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics and an M.S. in Nuclear Astrophysics from the University of Notre Dame. He taught at the college level for several years on a number of technical subjects ranging from computer programming and math to, of course, astronomy and physics. In the... Read More →
avatar for A.C. Dawn

A.C. Dawn

A.C. Dawn is an active and enthusiastic author and reader of short stories, novellas, and novels. She enjoys bringing her characters to life and strives to stir the imagination of her readers. She believes the best writing touches the reader in ways they hadn’t expected and will... Read More →
avatar for Randee Dawn

Randee Dawn

Randee Dawn is a Brooklyn-based author and journalist focusing on speculative fiction across the categories (science-fiction, fantasy and horror) at night, while writing entertainment and lifestyle stories during the day for publications including Today.com, NBCNews.com, Variety... Read More →
avatar for Amy DuBoff

Amy DuBoff

A.K. (Amy) DuBoff is an award-winning and USA Today bestselling indie author and screenwriter. She is a lifelong sci-fi and fantasy fan—and if it involves outer space, even better! Amy is most known for creating the acclaimed Cadicle Universe, which includes interconnected space... Read More →
avatar for Greg Eden

Greg Eden

Greg Eden is from New Zealand where he trained in radio communications and has worked in England, Wales, Austria, Ghana Nigeria, Sudan and Chad. He has installed radio equipment in garbage trucks, has been a communications officer for the UK Fire Service, has set up paging networks... Read More →
avatar for Nancy Edwards

Nancy Edwards

Nancy Edwards has been in fandom for 40+ years and has the stories to back it up.  She was the FGOH at the ninth NASFC, Tuckercon, due to her long friendship with Bob Tucker.  She threw an adult relaxicon for several years called Czarcon  which was totally  non-PC.  
avatar for Devon Eriksen

Devon Eriksen

Devon Eriksen is a recent Chattanooga transplant, marksman, and life-long reader, with a particular fondness for classics from the golden age of science fiction. After growing up with images of the galaxy brought home by his JPL engineer father, he spent most of his career as a software... Read More →
avatar for Robert S. Evans

Robert S. Evans

Robert S. Evans is a Georgia native film writer and director. He attended the New York Film Academy, and shortly afterwards caught the attention of industry veteran Jeff Burr (Leatherface: Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3) . Robert caught his first break with the film "The Last Piece Standing... Read More →
avatar for Kacey Ezell

Kacey Ezell

Kacey Ezell is a helicopter pilot with 3000+ hours in the UH-1N Huey, Mi-171, and EC130 helicopters. When not beating the air into submission, she writes sci-fi/fantasy/horror/noir/ alternate history fiction. She is a two-time Dragon Award Finalist for Best Alternate History and won... Read More →
avatar for Jesse James Fain

Jesse James Fain

Jesse James Fain is a Science Fiction and Fantasy Author, Editor, and retired powerlifting champion. Jesse’s extensive experience in martial arts and weapons training leads to vibrant martial tales of revenge and combat that bring a taste of reality to fictional battles, along with... Read More →
avatar for Bill Fawcett

Bill Fawcett

Bill Fawcett is an American writer, editor, anthologist, and game designer. He co-authored the official Mycroft Holmes Mysteries and over a dozen other novels. Bill has also written almost a dozen historical non-fiction books. He founded Mayfair Games and also designs board and computer... Read More →
avatar for C.S. Ferguson

C.S. Ferguson

C. S. Ferguson is the #1 bestselling author of the Transhuman War series. In his spare time he enjoys rock collecting, hiking, kenjutsu, escrima, jiu jitsu, and gardening. He lives in the PNW with a very special dog, an assassin cat, two birds, two aquascapes, and a hundred house... Read More →
avatar for Lyndie Ferguson

Lyndie Ferguson

Lyndie Ferguson is the author of the Urban Fantasy Series, THE ANGELQUEST CHRONICLES. She loves paranormal books and movies with quirky characters and larger-than-life storylines. When she’s not writing, she loves to travel and spend time with her family.
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avatar for Stephen Fleming

Stephen Fleming

At various times, Stephen Fleming has been paid to be an optical physicist, laser fabricator, software developer, field engineer, product manager, corporate trainer, marketing executive, salesman, general manager, entrepreneur, author, venture capitalist, board member, investment... Read More →
avatar for Marina Fontaine

Marina Fontaine

Marina Fontaine is a Russian by birth, an American by choice, and a writer of optimistic fiction. She uses her experience of living in a totalitarian society to demonstrate how human yearning for freedom and love endures in the darkest of circumstances. Her dystopian works include... Read More →
avatar for Monalisa Foster

Monalisa Foster

Monalisa is an award-winning science fiction author whose writing career really began when she taught herself English by translating Heinlein juveniles at the public library. She would copy sentences in English, translate them into Romanian, and then write out new words ten times... Read More →
avatar for Julie Frost

Julie Frost

Julie Frost is an award-winning author of every shade of speculative fiction. She lives in Utah with a herd of guinea pigs, her husband, and a “kitten” who thinks she’s a warrior princess. She enjoys birding, and is on a quest to photograph 500 bird species in a calendar year... Read More →
avatar for Karl Gallagher

Karl Gallagher

Karl K. Gallagher is a systems engineer, currently performing data analysis for a major aerospace company. In the past he calculated trajectories for a commercial launch rocket start-up, operated satellites as a US Air Force officer, and selected orbits for government and commercial... Read More →
avatar for Michael Gants

Michael Gants

Michael Gants is a science fiction and fantasy author and retired Navy submariner. He currently works as an inspector at Sequoyah Nuclear Plant. His other jobs have included nuclear mechanic, anti-terrorism trainer, small craft boarding specialist, programmer, journalist, and aquarium... Read More →
avatar for J.B. Garner

J.B. Garner

Talented top flight author and editor Jamie Beth "J. B." Garner has written over twenty novels across multiple genres and edited hundreds more. J.B.’s seen and done many things in her life, from honors student to factory worker to garbage collector to construction worker. In addition... Read More →
avatar for Melissa Gay

Melissa Gay

Melissa Gay thinks of creating art as illustrating personal myths-- half-dreamed bedtime stories, chance encounters in misty woods, hazy glimpses of far-flung civilizations through a handmade telescope, scenes to fire the imagination. Beginning her career as a scientific illustrator... Read More →
avatar for Amie Gibbons

Amie Gibbons

Amie was born and raised in the Salt Lake Valley. She started making up stories before she could read and would act them out with her dolls and stuffed animals. She started actually writing them down in college, just decided to do it one day and couldn't stop. She loves urban fantasy... Read More →
avatar for Brian Gifford

Brian Gifford

A 27 year veteran, Cannon author Brian Gifford is a science fiction and fantasy nerd of the highest order. A lifelong student of physics and the arcana of IT alike, Brian spent a lifetime accumulating his unique view of the world. Unfortunately, he now insists on sharing it with... Read More →
avatar for Sara Glassman

Sara Glassman

Sara Glassman is a jewelry artist who focuses on bringing fiber art techniques to wire jewelry. She also has an interest in combining books with jewelry and has designed pieces around books or characters as well as used upcycled books in her art. In 2006 she founded Medusa’s Mirror... Read More →
avatar for Brian Lee Gnad

Brian Lee Gnad

Brian Lee Gnad is a software developer specializing in marine electronics integration. He currently works for a major marine products manufacturer and serves on the National Marine Electronics Association Technical Standards Committee working primarily on the NMEA 2000 and NMEA OneNet... Read More →
avatar for Doug Goodall

Doug Goodall

Douglas Goodall lives in rural North Carolina with the smartest wife, cutest daughter, and softest cat. You can keep up with him (and read lots of unofficial Elder Scrolls lore if you're into that) at dgoodall.substack.com.
avatar for Dorothy Grant

Dorothy Grant

Dorothy Grant is an Alaskan pilot who married a South African and settled in north Texas. She happily writes in domestic chaos with two cats, plenty of chocolate, and weather that's trying to kill her every which way but frostbite. Her latest book is Dust of the Ocean.
avatar for Peter Grant

Peter Grant

Peter Grant was born and raised in South Africa. Between the military, the IT industry and humanitarian involvement, he traveled throughout sub-Saharan Africa before emigrating to the USA. He currently lives in Texas, and writes science fiction and westerns. His latest book is Wood... Read More →
avatar for Jeff Greason

Jeff Greason

I grew up with middle class parents in rural Oregon, with some of my earliest memories being Star Trek, the Apollo 17 launch, and reading classic science fiction. As far as I know, I've always been interested in science and technology. I thought that by the time I was an adult, there... Read More →
avatar for H.Y. Gregor

H.Y. Gregor

H.Y. Gregor was born in Portland, Oregon, but will always call the mountains of Colorado home. She holds a bachelor's degree in political science but put it down often enough to narrowly avoid law school. Now she spends as much free time as possible weaving fantasy tales and battling... Read More →
avatar for Shane Gries

Shane Gries

Shane Gries is a career soldier, student of history and writer. He spent over seventeen years serving overseas. He’s a graduate of Airborne School, Ranger School, earned his Expert Infantryman Badge and did some time in combat. Now he writes books about zombies and stuff that blows... Read More →
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Rich Groller

Programming Director
Our own LibertyCon Director of Programming, Dr. Richard Groller, is also an author in his own right. He is co-author of The Warrior's Edge (with Janet Morris and COL John Alexander), and a contributing author to The American Warrior (Janet and Chris Morris, Eds.), and to 7 volumes... Read More →
avatar for Al Hagan

Al Hagan

Al Hagan is a retired IT project manager. His career also included a four-year tour of duty with the Marine Corps and a number of years in the intelligence community, working in Washington, D.C. and in foreign countries.
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Gerald Hall

Gerald Hall has had an extraordinarily diverse background. A lifelong science fiction fan, Gerald is a graduate of the N.C. State University's School of Engineering. After graduation, he served in uniform as part of the Intelligence Community for more than thirty years, deploying... Read More →
avatar for Robert E. Hampson

Robert E. Hampson

Dr. Robert E. Hampson is a Neuroscientist and author. By day, he is a professor at Wake Forest School of Medicine, studying how our brains encode memory. By night, he writes military, adventure and hard-science Science Fiction as well as nonfiction articles explaining science to the... Read More →
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Kyle Hannah

With a face for radio and a voice for silent movies, writing was his only recourse. R. Kyle Hannah is a self-professed geek and lover of most things sci-fi. He began writing in high school as an outlet for an overactive imagination. Those humble beginnings, combined with real life... Read More →
avatar for Mary Hare

Mary Hare

I’m a wife, mother, and grandmother, who had a four-year stint in the USAF in the Manned SpaceFlight Support Group at the Johnson Space Center in the 80’s, where I met and married my husband, also in the USAF at the time. Since then, almost every job I’ve had has involved computers... Read More →
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Kevin Harris

Kevin grew up on fantasy and science fiction, finding inspiration for his writing in the Halls of Moria, with the man-eaters of Zamboula, and on the 'hurtling moons of Barsoom'. His first novel, 'A Darkness Come Again', is a Military Fantasy coming out this summer with Cannon Pub... Read More →
avatar for Aaron Haskins

Aaron Haskins

A.C. Haskins is an economist, data geek, and combat veteran, and occasionally he writes stuff related to his many interests, including (but not limited to) ancient and medieval history, mythology, martial arts, guns, and theoretical economics. He lives in Michigan with his lovely... Read More →
avatar for Bjorn Hasseler

Bjorn Hasseler

Bjorn Hasseler found Eric Flint's novel 1632 in a public library. Then he discovered that fans were not just allowed but encouraged to write in the 1632 universe. He writes the Neustatter's European Security Service thread (A Matter of Security, Missions of Security, Security Threats... Read More →
avatar for Ross Hathaway

Ross Hathaway

Ross Hathaway has been involved with the aerospace world for 50+ years as a C-141 navigator and a propulsion engineer—ramjets, scramjets, turbo jets, and nuclear; he has worked them all. He and his wife live in the mid-West and have just enough art, rocks, and cats.
avatar for Jonna Hayden

Jonna Hayden

Jonna Hayden is a professional Costume Designer, clothing historian, and long-time SF geek. After many years of hiding in the Science Fiction section of the school library, she found her tribe when she attended Orycon 5. She builds shows for the Opera, Ballet, and anyone else who... Read More →
avatar for Mark Haynes

Mark Haynes

I’m a renaissance man trapped in a specialist’s body. My degree is in biology. That’s why I’m IT. I’ve worked as a software developer, with an elegant language for a more civilized age. I became a QA guy because breaking things is therapeutic. I became a process specialist... Read More →
avatar for Sean Patrick Hazlett

Sean Patrick Hazlett

Sean Patrick Hazlett is an Army veteran and former captain, speculative fiction writer and editor, and finance executive in the San Francisco Bay area. He was born in Wilmington, Delaware, but trekked across the country to pursue an AB in history and BS in electrical engineering from... Read More →
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Brandy Bolgeo Hendren

Brandy Bolgeo Hendren is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of LibertyCon and the daughter of the founder of LibertyCon, Richard T. "Uncle Timmy" Bolgeo. Brandys first convention was Chattacon 2 in 1976 and since that time she has been actively involved in the fandom community... Read More →
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James V. Henson

Jamie Henson is the founder of Alpha Mercs, a private fellowship of writers forging craft, resilience, and timeless virtues. Together they stand for what storytelling was—and must be again. The forge is lit. Join the fellowship at omicronstation.com.
avatar for Louise Herring-Jones

Louise Herring-Jones

Louise Herring-Jones writes speculative fiction including science fiction, fantasy, historical fantasy, and alternate mystery. Her stories, appearing in fourteen anthologies, include “The Poulterer’s Tale” in God Bless Us, Every One—Christmas Carols beyond Dickens (Voodoo... Read More →
avatar for Dan Hollifield

Dan Hollifield

Dan L. Hollifield is the author of the ‘Mare Inebrium Spaceport Bar’ series of short stories. Other works include the “Adventures of Tom Darby” ongoing series of stories, one of which is titled ‘Abducted,’ and is available on Amazon. Further Tom Darby stories are awaiting... Read More →
avatar for John Holmes

John Holmes

J.F. Holmes is a retired Army Senior Noncommissioned Officer, having served for 22 years in both the Regular Army and Army National Guard. During that time, he served as everything from an artillery section leader to a member of a Division level planning staff, with tours in Cuba... Read More →
avatar for Frank Hood

Frank Hood

When I graduated college I wanted to be a great writer like Shakespeare, Bradbury, Hardy, or Heinlein. Five years later and $14 richer off my writing career, I decided I needed a career that put food on the table as well. My wife, a chemist and wonderful writer herself (S. T. Gaffney... Read More →
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Rob Howell

Rob Howell is the publisher of New Mythology Press, including his work as editor of the Libri Valoris anthologies of heroic fantasy. He’s the creator of the Firehall Sagas, an author in the Four Horsemen Universe, and a writer and editor in Luke Gygax’s World of Okkorim. He writes... Read More →
avatar for Daniel M. Hoyt

Daniel M. Hoyt

Daniel M. Hoyt is a systems architect for trajectory physics software, when not writing or wrangling royalty calculations. Dan has appeared in premier magazines like Analog and several anthologies, notably the recent Paladins of Valor and Bonds of Valor, with connected stories in... Read More →
avatar for Sarah A. Hoyt

Sarah A. Hoyt

Sarah A. Hoyt writes... Almost everything. And has. But this last year she's been wrestling with a monstrous-size space opera. She lives with her husband and a plethora of cats. Sons and daughters-in-law sometimes visit. Sarah has published, she thinks, about fifty novels. She doesn't... Read More →
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G. Scott Huggins

Having been born in California and raised in Kansas, Scott Huggins grew up as confused as one might expect. He began writing whilst traveling in post-Soviet Russia and Germany, and was one of the 20th Century’s last Writers of the Future (1999). The future arrived immediately thereafter... Read More →
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Fred Hughes

The International Bestselling Amazon Author of seven books of 'The Prince of Britannia' series. I'm currently working on my new series, 'The First Solar War.' Having served 20 years in the US Navy, most of it on submarines, I developed a great appreciation for the written word. Naval... Read More →
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Mark Huston

Mark Huston is a Chicago based author. He is published in Eric Flint's Ring of Fire Series and is a long-time contributor to the Grantville Gazette. His first novel, "Up-time Pride and Down-time Prejudice", was a Dragon Award Finalist. His work has also appeared in F&SF. Mark is and... Read More →
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Kendra Irwin

Kendra Irwin is a tapestry artist, specializing in portraits and landscapes, as well as abstract fiber art, that can be viewed on IG @ladycentaur358. She works on a handmade loom, taking her inspiration from pop culture, animals and the colors and textures of Nature and was awarded... Read More →
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Steve Jackson

Steve Jackson graduated from Rice University in Houston. While there, he spent most of his time playing wargames and working on the student paper, the Thresher (he spent two years as editor). He became a writer and game publisher, proving that college can be very valuable as long... Read More →
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Les Johnson

Les is a physicist, author, and NASA technologist. He has been a LibertyCon GoH 3 times, winner of the Phoenix Award, and was featured in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic. Les leads two NASA space missions, holds 3 patents, and is a member of the International Academy of... Read More →
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Steve Johnson

Steve Johnson is a teacher from Virginia. He writes science-fiction and fantasy adventure stories when not hosting sf and fantasy adventure games. He prefers Kirk to Picard, Superman to Batman, and is married to Virginia, both glamorous and grounded, so he didn’t have to choose... Read More →
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April Kelley Jones

April Jones has navigated countless fictional worlds as a writer, editor, and teacher. When not wrangling words or cats, she’s learning languages and traveling the world. She lives in South Carolina with her favorite people and felines. Her latest project is Hell’s Judgement... Read More →
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Becky R. Jones

Becky R. Jones is a recovering political science faculty member turned sci-fi/fantasy author. She is the author of the Academic Magic series (Academic Magic, Night Mage, and Magic Abroad) and several short stories in various anthologies, in addition to academic articles. She has been... Read More →
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Bryan Jones

Bryan Jones is a chainmail smith and digital artist who proudly hails from Huntsville, Alabama, the "Rocket City." He grew up in a computer-literate home long before computers were cool and enjoys transferring his imagination into digital space vistas. On the other end of the space-time... Read More →
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David Alan Jones

David Alan Jones is a veteran of the United States Air Force, where he served as an Arabic linguist, a role that sharpened his ear for language and deepened his appreciation for complex storytelling. A 2016 Writers of the Future Silver Honorable Mention recipient, David writes across... Read More →
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Carolyn Kay

Carolyn Kay grew up surrounded by fantasy and science fiction. Legos and Star Wars figures were her favorite toys, and Madeleine L’Engle and Tolkien graced her bookshelves. Carolyn melded her two favorite genres—steampunk and fantasy—into a series titled, “Galessel’s Tale... Read More →
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Diane Kelly

Diane Kelly is a biologist at UMass Amherst who studies the functional morphology and neural control of vertebrate reproduction. She is also a science communicator: she has written for FiveThirtyEight, Wired.com, and Gizmodo,co-designed two science-themed card games, and is part ofthe... Read More →
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Daniel Kemp

A couple history degrees, the Army, and a turbulent personal life inspired the Athenaeum Inc military thriller trilogy at Cannon (Door Number Three, Doubling Down and Triple Play). He’s also done shorts on everything from the sinking of the Bismarck to feeding dragons.
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Bart Kemper

Bart is a writer, photographer, inventor, and consulting Professional Engineer based in South Louisiana. He served over 34 years in the US Army, Active and Reserve, enlisted and officer, including as a Sergeant in the 82nd Airborne Division up to a Lt. Colonel engineer officer in... Read More →
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Chris Kennedy

A Webster Award winner and three-time Dragon Award finalist, Chris Kennedy is a Science Fiction/Fantasy author, speaker, and small-press publisher who has written over 70 books and published more than 500 others. Get his free book, “Shattered Crucible,” at his website, https://chriskennedypublishing.com... Read More →
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Bethanne Kim

Bethanne Kim is a publisher with the new alternate history magazine “Eric Flint’s 1632 & Beyond” and a writer in the 1632verse. She also writes about emergency preparedness (including on TheSurvivalMom.com), zombies, being a Scout leader, the US Constitution, and whatever else... Read More →
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Michael Kingswood

Michael Kingswood has published over 100 titles and has appeared anthologies from WMG Publishing, Stark Publishing, and Knotted Road Press. He produces a weekly podcast, Story Time With Michael Kingswood, which can be found in both video and audio formats everywhere great podcasts... Read More →
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Alexandra Klimek-Sidor

Alexandra's work includes abstracted portraits, twisted creatures, and fantastical monsters from myth and fandoms alike. She specializes in alcohol ink paintings and engraved game accessories. She has shown her work in galleries in Greenville SC, the Oddities and Curiosities Expo... Read More →
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Martha Knowles

Now retired, Martha Knowles was a professional librarian and records management specialist. She was the TVIW Treasurer from 2014-2020, and administrator and Registrar for the first four TVIW symposia. Since TVIW became the Interstellar Research Group, she has continued to be involved... Read More →
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Jonathan Koan

Jonathan Koan is a Professional Book Reviewer on YouTube. His YouTube channel, "Jonathan Koan", features book reviews, author interviews, rankings, book hauls, unboxings, recommendations and more! He reviews Science Fiction, Fantasy, Media Tie-in Fiction, Thrillers, and more!
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Gini Koch

Gini Koch started writing in the American Southwest as something to do in between staring at pictures of good-looking leading men, but now sweats out the words, both literally and figuratively, in Hotlanta and dreams of dry heat. She has over 70 titles but is best known for her bestselling... Read More →
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Jonathan LaForce

Born in southern Arizona, Jonathan LaForce spent his formative years in northern Los Angeles County before moving to Texas at the age of 19. Two years later, he enlisted in the USMC and found himself stationed in Hawaii. Had it not been so expensive, he'd have stayed in Hawaii at... Read More →
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Michael LaVoice

Michael LaVoice is a Science Fiction/Fantasy writer. He is the author of the Galaxy’s Most Wanted series from Aethon Books, the Gladius Leagues series from Chris Kennedy Publishing, as well as the upcoming SARCOM series with co-author Peter Stanley. He has multiple short stories... Read More →
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Philip Ligon

Philip Ligon has been trying to satisfy the writing bug that took hold since before he can remember. He fell in love with science fiction and fantasy in high school and began dabbling with writing fantastical stories, a passion which continues to this day. Adding an engineering background... Read More →
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John Locke

John M. Locke is a Retired Veteran of the United States Army. Notable assignments included the 3rd Armored Div, 82nd Airborne Div and 2nd Infantry Division. He served in the first Gulf War with 3rd Bn, 73rd Armor, the only Airborne Armor unit in the free world. John retired from the... Read More →
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Christopher Loric

A retired US Navy officer-turned-novelist, Christopher Loric grew up and attended school in Norman, OK. Earned his MBA in 1990 and his MA in National Security and Strategic Studies in 2004 (recertified in 2013). Joined the US Navy and went active on 14 Feb 1993. Deployed with the... Read More →
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Doug Loss

Doug Loss is retired, but was an IT security analyst from Maryville, TN. He has been an SF reader since childhood (more than 55 years) and a war gamer for over 50 years. He's an avid blues music fan and is currently serving on the Board of Directors for the Interstellar Research Group... Read More →
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Tamara Lowery

Tamara Lowery, author of The Adventures of Pigg & Woolfe serial and the Waves of Darkness series, is a native of Chattanooga. She writes pirates that aren't nice and vampires that don't sparkle as well as high-flying steampunk adventure.
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Terry Maggert

Terry has authored 79 books, including the Backyard Starship, Peacemaker Wars, and Messenger series. He lives on a compound near Nashville, and is actively seeking to purchase a giraffe. He's a car enthusiast, a runner, and a collector of vintage science fiction in all forms. He is... Read More →
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Ian J. Malone

Ian J. Malone is the bestselling author of numerous works, including the MAKO space opera series and FREE BIRD RISING, the military scifi epic from the Four Horsemen Universe. Malone has written in a variety of arenas over the years, ranging from public health to news and sports... Read More →
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Geoffrey Mandragora

Geoffrey Mandragora is a storyteller, not an author. He refuses to take himself seriously, or write anything too serious. His work is exciting, scary, and thrilling; but overall he strives to make his books fun, both to write and read. Which is why he writes in different genres.
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Lucas Marcum

Lucas Marcum is a critical care nurse practitioner, Army reservist and independent author. Since high school, he has written recreationally; but never really took the idea of publishing a book seriously until 2017, when he wandered into a Facebook group curated by and populated with... Read More →
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MG Martin

M.G. Martin was born to a flamenco dancer and an International Man of Mystery in the great state of New York ‘lo these many years ago. A precocious child, she started writing while still in elementary school and dreamt of becoming a published author. As she became an adult, she... Read More →
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Sarah Martin

Treasurer & Webmaster, LibertyCon™
Sarah has been hanging around LibertyCon for years, so it was only a matter of time till Brandy and Don roped her into volunteering as staff and even convincing her to join the Board of Directors, now serving as LibertyCon's Treasurer and Webmaster. Conveniently, she has years of... Read More →
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Charles Matheny

Charles Matheny is a military veteran of fifteen years, serving six years in the Navy as an electronic technician on the USS Carl Vincent and nine years in the Army as a tanker in the 303rd Armored. After his service ended abruptly in a medical discharge, he eventually started a Twitch... Read More →
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Jay Maynard

Jay Maynard is a lifelong computer geek whose career spans everything from embedded systems — like the ones in microwave ovens — to IBM mainframes. When he’s not in front of a keyboard, he’s on ham radio, serving on the Fairmont, Minnesota city council, tinkering with his... Read More →
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Tom Mays

Thomas A. Mays is an active duty Surface Warfare Officer and former Major Command Afloat Captain in the United States Navy. When the day-job permits, Tom writes short stories and novels of military SF, hard SF, space opera, and fantasy for his own Patron Cycle and the CKP 4HU, among... Read More →
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Matthew McClafferty

Matt McClafferty has Noir, SF, both Traditional and Weird Westerns, Steampunk, GameLit, and Alt-History short stories in print. So far. When not traveling, taking photos, researching, or writing, he relaxes in the Florida Panhandle sunshine with his totally awesome wife, their Swamp-doodle... Read More →
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ML McIntosh

ML hails from the dark, beautiful places in Appalachia. Her childhood was cluttered, in the best possible way, by her father’s copies of Poe, Bradbury and their contemporaries as well as her mother’s pretty random vinyl LP collection. She grew up beneath misty mountains with a... Read More →
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Patricia McIntosh-Mize

Patty McIntosh-Mize is a lifelong nerd-girl and freelance editor. Most recently, she edited Theft of Fire, the amazing debut novel in the Orbital Space series by Devon Ericksen. When not editing, she knits and enjoys spending quality time with The World's Most Perfect Grandson, and... Read More →
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Ian McMurtrie

Born on the island of Malta to an Oklahoma oil engineer and a Texas school teacher, author Ian McMurtrie a.k.a. LawDog was raised in Africa, the Middle East, and Europe. He has been a soldier, an EMT, a volunteer fireman, a short-order cook, the world's worst rodeo clown, and a peace... Read More →
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Claire Merrick

Tired of writing about bad news as a broadcast TV producer, Claire Merrick began using her free time to write urban fantasy stories, set to be released in 2025. Merrick's work is inspired by her love of small town mill smokestacks and the secrets they hide.
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Kara Metz

Kara captures the unique beauty of nature from the enchanted forests of Maine to the stars above.  Fantastical creatures, fictional planets, and popular references are just the first few layers in the labrynth of her mind.  Watercolors and Spraypaint are her current focus but anything... Read More →
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Amanda Montandon

Amanda Montandon is a Colorado mountain girl living in North Carolina with her husband, author Kal Spriggs, their son, & 4 mischievous felines. A Jane-of-All-Trades, she has experience in law enforcement, veterinary care, private security, & more. She runs her own editing business... Read More →
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Anita Moore

Hello!  I'm Anita S. Moore and I'm an artist.  Art background: Self taught from early age, Sketching, scribbling, doodling in note paper margins, later pastels and eventually oil painting in high school.  I kept painting after high school for a few years. But it was the mid 90's... Read More →
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Lisa D. Moore

Lisa D. Moore is a copy editor at Raconteur Press and aspiring journalist in North Texas. She is a military brat, Chestertonian, and MSTie. Her latest undertaking is learning videography, currently documenting SF/fandom history with her infinitely patient friend, Ben Yalow.
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Casey Moores

Casey Moores was a USAF rescue/special ops C-130 pilot for over 17 years- airdropping, air re-fueling, and flying into tiny blacked-out dirt airstrips in bad places using night vision goggles. He’s been to those places and done those things with those people. Now he lives a quieter... Read More →
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Cassandra Morgan

Cassandra Morgan is an award-winning, multi-genre author residing in NW Ohio with her husband, daughter, and five ferocious felines. She is best known for her Silver Fox Mysteries series. When she’s not writing, she enjoys traveling, trying new foods, hitting the movies, and wrangling... Read More →
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Nick Nethery

Nick Nethery writes science fiction, fantasy, mystery, westerns and whatever else presents a challenge or will entertain his friends and family. He has been published by the United States Naval Institute, Foreign Policy, Dragon Soul Press, and Raconteur Press, among others. He works... Read More →
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James P. Nettles

With a 30-plus-year career in consulting, Nettles has advised a diverse range of clients, from startups to Fortune 100 companies in financial technologies, media, entertainment, and green technologies. His work focuses on privacy, futurism, and disruptive technologies, exploring how... Read More →
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Nancy Northcott

Nancy Northcott has loved comic books, mysteries, fantasy, history, and romance since childhood. A sucker for fast action and wrenching emotion, she combines the action and high stakes she loves in the books she writes. On the way to becoming a published author, she taught courses... Read More →
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Jody Lynn Nye

Jody Lynn Nye lists her main career activity as ‘spoiling cats.’ When not engaged upon this worthy occupation, she writes fantasy and science fiction books and short stories.Before breaking away from gainful employment to write full time, Jody worked as a file clerk, book-keeper... Read More →
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Chris Oakley

Chris Oakley owned and operated Oakley’s Gently Used Books, a bricks & mortar used bookshop with a specialty in Sci Fi/Fantasy, for more than 20 years (1995-2016) in Charlottesville, VA. She has been a bookseller at Madicon, MarsCon, MystiCon, RavenCon, Libertycon DSC50, DSC60 and... Read More →
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Melissa Olthoff

Melissa Olthoff spent her youth daydreaming about riding dragons and slaying monsters. After joining the United States Air Force, she might not have gotten to ride any dragons, but she had plenty of real-world adventures over the years—including flying the T-6, becoming a certified... Read More →
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Stephanie Osborn

Few can claim the varied background of award-winning author Stephanie Osborn, the Interstellar Woman of Mystery. Veteran of more than 20 years in the civilian space program, as well as various military space defense programs, she worked on numerous space shuttle flights and the International... Read More →
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Jon R. Osborne

Jon R. Osborne turned a journalism education and a passion for role-playing games into writing science fiction and fantasy. His second book in The Milesian Accords modern fantasy trilogy, “A Tempered Warrior”, was a 2018 Dragon Awards finalist for Best Fantasy Novel. Jon is a... Read More →
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Erin Palette

Erin Palette is a Prepper, an Eagle Scout, and a Floridian. She believes that anyone can be prepared for most emergencies with some common sense and basic materials. She curates Blue Collar Prepping, a blog which has been teaching readers since 2014 how preparedness doesn’t have... Read More →
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Blaine Pardoe

Blaine Pardoe is a New York Times Bestselling and award winning author of numerous books in the true crime, science fiction, military non-fiction, political thriller, paranormal, and business management genres. He has appeared on a number of national television and radio shows to... Read More →
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Rick Partlow

Rick Partlow is an Army veteran with a degree in History from Florida Southern College. He is the author of 51 military SF and space opera novels including the Dragon Award finalist Direct Fire
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Dr. Mark Paulk

Dr. Mark Paulk is currently on the faculty at the University of Texas at Dallas teaching software engineering. Before UTD, he was with Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh for 25 years, researching and teaching on best practices for software engineering and service management... Read More →
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Pat Pebley

Many phrases describe Pat Pebley. Lover of fine foods, strong drink, and women of questionable moral fiber. Pro Wrestler. Degenerate gambler. Metal head. Thespian. Dungeon Master (of the D&D variety). After years of adventures Caryville’s favorite son has decided to put his fingers... Read More →
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Jay Peterson

Jay Peterson has been everything from a nightclub bouncer to a chess coach. He once considered taking over the world, but balked once he had a look at the paperwork involved. His debut novel, Renfield Blues, was released in 2023. A sequel, Ghost Light, is currently in the works. When... Read More →
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J. Kenton Pierce

J. Kenton Pierce’s Science Fiction short stories and novels known collectively as the Tales from the Long Night. He lives near Pittsburgh and enjoys writing, shooting, and cheese. His work has been published in Abyss & Apex, the Grantville Gazette Baen's Universe Annex, and several... Read More →
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Nic Plume

Nic Plume is the author of the military science fiction series ’Shadows of Peace’ and the short story ‘Rebels’ Cause’ in the Lost Brigade Universe’s anthology ‘Standing Fast on Foreign Shores’. She has also edited over forty science fiction novels for a best-selling... Read More →
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Gary Poole

Gary Poole is the founder and longtime host of Robot Battles, has edited three national bestselling anthologies set in John Ringo's "Black Tide Rising" universe (which a fourth coming in 2023), and runs the Southern Fandom Resource Guide website. And if that wasn't enough, he has... Read More →
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Leia Powell

Master Stained Glass Artisan Leia Powell has been creating glass masterpieces, breaking down barriers, and rejuvenating the old world artistry for over 25 years. The first stained glass artist to be nominated for the coveted Chesley Award, Leia is also the first glass artist in history... Read More →
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Charles Prael

Charles Prael is a long-time fan and west coast SMOF of dubious repute, with a resume that looks like a scarf by its length. At the moment I'm launching a hedge fund that will fund several different space/satellite projects, and may wind up paying for a lunar mining base - among other... Read More →
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Kevin Pulliam

Kevin Pulliam, an Aerospace engineer, farms 130 acres of woods and pasture in North Alabama producing Grass Finished Beef, Forest Raised Pork, and Pastured Poultry and markets his regenerative farmstead’s products direct to the consumer. Regenerative farming improves the land through... Read More →
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Gregory Radabaugh

Greg Radabaugh, an author published by Raconteur Press and others, retired from the US Department of Defense after a 44-year career. He now works as a consultant for various commercial and government entities. Prior to his retirement, he was a member of the Department of Defense Senior... Read More →
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Eric S. Raymond

Eric S. Raymond is a wandering anthropologist and troublemaking philosopher who happened to be in the right place at the right time, and has been wondering whether he should regret it ever since. He's probably best known for having wrtitten the foundational papers on open-source software... Read More →
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Rob Reed

Rob Reed writes science fiction, fantasy, mysteries and thrillers. His fiction has been featured in the best-selling anthologies “Forged in Blood” and “Freehold: Resistance,” both edited by Michael Z. Williamson. Rob co-edited (with Amie Gibbons) and published the urban fantasy... Read More →
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LL Richman

L.L. Richman has a diverse career background, having spent more than a decade working in radiation physics, and twice that as a director of film and video. Richman is also a pilot and has close ties to the special forces community. Richman's series feature the pulse-pounding action... Read More →
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Gray Rinehart

Graham W. "Gray" Rinehart Rinehart is a writer, an editor, a singer/songwriter, and a retired Air Force officer. He is the only person to have commanded a USAF satellite tracking station, written speeches for Presidential appointees, devised a poetic form, and had music on The Dr... Read More →
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John Ringo

John Ringo's science fiction is action-oriented and abounding in characters to root for. He is the creator of the New York Times best-selling military science fiction series The Posleen Wars, with over one million copies in print. Ringo is also the author of the far-future science... Read More →
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William Alan Ritch

As President, Technician, Writer, Director, Producer - Bill Ritch is a long-serving member of ARTC and has directed and produced countless live and studio productions. He is the author of The Doom of the Mummy, The Menace From Earth (adapted from the Robert A. Heinlein short story... Read More →
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Ann Robards

Reading her way through the children's section of the local Public Library, 10 year old Ann found Ray Bradbury's "R is For Rocket" and "S is For Space" in the back corner. Thank you, Mr. Bradbury for sparking a lifelong love of the Science Fiction and Fantasy genres. Both parents... Read More →
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Sam Robb

Sam Robb is an urban fantasy writer from Pittsburgh who draws inspiration from back alleys, graffiti, and urban exploration. He’s published in his flash fiction collection, One October Night, as well as multiple anthologies, and edited the Stories in the Key of Tull anthologies... Read More →
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Shari Robb

Shari Robb is a loving wife, mother, technical writer, and counselor. She has worked as an editor for political campaigns, multiple non-fiction books, and shorts from the Alpha Mercs. Her work as a freelance editor includes multiple SF/Fantasy anthologies, including game fiction... Read More →
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William Joseph Roberts

William Joseph Roberts has been called a Renaissance man, and an insane squirrel wrangler by his peers. Since his enlistment ended, he has pursued careers as an industrial and architectural designer, design engineer, and is now an award-winning author, editor, and publisher with Three... Read More →
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Brent Roeder

Brent Roeder, PhD, is a neuroscience researcher that is exploring how to restore damaged memory function. A life long geek, he enjoys writing sci-fi and fantasy to relax from work. Very occasionally he even remembers to finish a story
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Caitlin Roppoli

Caitlin Roppoli is a Senior Apprentice to Master Stained Glass Artist Leia Powell. She takes great inspiration from her grandfather, who was also a glazier, and she is following in his footsteps, learning as much as she can about the old world art medium. She travels to Wildcat Mountain... Read More →
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E.G. (Gene) Rowley

E.G. Rowley is a nationally recognized voice actor, radio host, award-winning playwright, and novelist, twice nominated for a Voice Arts Awards: Audiobook Narration of the Year - Best Voiceover. He is a U.S. Army veteran and served in both Afghanistan and Iraq. He is an avid outdoorsman... Read More →
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Ken Roy

Kenneth Roy is a retired, professional engineer who is currently living in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. As a long-time hobby he has been working with the idea of terraforming. He invented the “Shell Worlds” concept as a way to terraform planets well outside a star’s Goldilocks’ zone... Read More →
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Steve Ruskin

Steve Ruskin writes thrillers with a hint of magic, and science fiction with a streak of rebellion. He is also an award-winning historian. He has been a university professor, a mountain bike guide, and a number of things in between. He can be found at www.steveruskin.com.
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Joe Salem

Joe Salem writes technothrillers such as "Arrow Storm", alternate history short stories and sci-fi. The sci-fi novel has been in progress for so long, it will soon be sci-fact. He works in the oilfield in Houston.
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Courtney Lytle Sarnow

Courtney Lytle Sarnow is a partner at Culhane Meadows and an Adjunct Professor at Emory Law. Her practice focuses on protecting creative works and providing consulting for innovative businesses. She has written a law school text book and several academic articles which are not really... Read More →
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Dave Sarnow

Dr. David Sarnow (Lt Col USAF ret) is an MD, MPH with over twenty years of real-world public health experience in the Air Force and civilian sectors. His hands-on experience with public health planning and preparedness give him a unique perspective on disease and all-hazard respo... Read More →
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Hans G. Schantz

Hans G. Schantz is a scientist, inventor, entrepreneur, and author. Principal Scientist at Geeks and Nerds Corporation, he was formerly a co-founder and Chief Technical Officer of the Q-Track Corporation, and co-inventor of the company’s near-field precision indoor location systems... Read More →
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James Schardt

James Schardt is a 21 year veteran of the US Army as an AH-64 Apache Attack Helicopter Armament Systems Repairer and a graduate of Austin Peay State University. He lives in Kentucky with his wife and too many cats. He enjoys shooting muzzleloaders, painting toy soldiers, and miniatures... Read More →
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Danette Schardt-Cordova

Danette Schardt-Cordova started tabletop gaming at twelve and computer gaming at fourteen with a TRaSh-80 from Radio Shack. Now she regularly streams her gaming (RPGs, Minecraft and whatever Charles(Ghost_Prime) drags her into) under the name Tamriel Mother in between taking care... Read More →
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M. M. Schill

M. M. Schill is an award winning artist and illustrator, and writer. She also serves as associated editor at Pseudopod (a pro-market, award winning, short horror podcast and E-zine).
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Dave Schroeder

Dave Schroeder (SHRAY-der) is the author of the Guardian Keeps and Congruent Mage fantasy series as well as the Xenotech Support science fiction humor series. He is a retired IT executive from Atlanta who enjoys performing with the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company. Dave also runs a... Read More →
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David Shadoin

David "Shady" Shadoin is a trouble-making, scotch-drinking, corn-fed Nebraska boy the United States Air Force managed to turn into a somewhat decent pilot of whirly birds. All of his publications can be found at Chris Kennedy Publishing or Amazon, as some are a part of the famous... Read More →
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Gary W. Shelton

Recently retired and returned to the Family farm in North Alabama. 30 years of experience working with the USDA - Agricultural research service in Mississippi, specializing in soybean genetics. Also Known as "Da Fish," has traveled the continental US in search of card games, good... Read More →
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David Sherrer

David Sherrer is a born storyteller and has been an obsessive gamer ever since he was seduced by Magic the Gathering at the tender age of fourteen. He has alternately owned a gaming store, street performed for a living, and survived eleven years in the soul crushing world of telecommunications... Read More →
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Lydia Sherrer

Award-winning and USA Today-bestselling author of snark-filled adventures, Lydia Sherrer thrives on creating stories you love to love, and hate to leave. She is the author of the bestselling urban fantasy Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus universe of books featuring several series, which... Read More →
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Stephen J. Simmons

Stephen J. Simmons started writing shortly after he retired from the Navy, primarily because his children had grown too old to listen to bedtime stories and the cats never laughed at the funny bits. He sold over a dozen flash-fiction stories to various online publishing venues, every... Read More →
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Chris Smith

A native Texan by birth (if not geography), Chris moved 'home' as soon as he could. Attending Texas A+M​, he learned quickly that there was more to college than beer and football games. He relocated to San Antonio, attending SAC and UTSA, graduating in late 2000 with a BA in Lit... Read More →
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Wayland Smith

WAYLAND SMITH is the pen name for a native Texan who has lived in Massachusetts, New York, Washington DC, and presently makes his home in Virginia. His rather unlikely list of jobs includes private investigator, comic book shop owner, ring crew for a circus (then he ran away from... Read More →
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Paul Sparks

Paul Sparks served as a combat medic in the US Army with three combat deployments overseas. He has been a lifelong geek, plays various RPG's and enjoys reading and writing military science fiction. He lives with his cats in Ohio, where he volunteers with various animal adoption a... Read More →
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Janet Spaulding

Janet has taught English for over twenty years She holds a Doctorate in Creative Invective as well as a black belt in sarcasm. All her puns are 100% intentional. In addition to teaching and editing, she has been a military contractor, a mortgage officer, a stand-up comedian and a... Read More →
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Kal Spriggs

Kal Spriggs is a US Army combat veteran, gamer, and science fiction and fantasy author. He has visited over 35 countries and has worked in a variety of industries including environmental remediation, farming, civil engineering, the military, and transportation. Kal has drawn upon... Read More →
avatar for Mark Stallings

Mark Stallings

Mark Stallings is an Internationally published and Amazon Best Selling author, speaker at International conferences on technology topics, is a writer of Wuxia, Fantasy, and Military Sci-Fi. He is a competitive shooter, avid martial artist, drinker of craft beer, and motorcycle enthusiast.You... Read More →
avatar for Craig Stanfill

Craig Stanfill

Craig W. Stanfill obtained his PhD in artificial intelligence in 1983, and has spent his career doing ground-breaking research in AI and enterprise computing. He has written numerous scientific papers, co-founded a software company, and been awarded more than 80 patents. He continues... Read More →
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Kevin Steverson

Kevin Steverson is a retired veteran of the U.S. Army. With several best-selling novels, including the Salvage Title Trilogy, picked up for development into feature film, he is also a published songwriter. When not at a convention or concert, he can be found in the foothills of the... Read More →
avatar for Nick Steverson

Nick Steverson

Nick Steverson is a 2023 Imadjinn Award winner for Best Science Fiction Novel. Multiple works with Chris Kennedy Publishing in the Salvage Title Universe, Four Horsemen Universe, Ashes of Entecea, and Fallen World. Other works include co-editing 13 Stories Of Horror and a short in... Read More →
avatar for Shami Stovall

Shami Stovall

Shami Stovall is a multi-award-winning author of fantasy and science fiction. Before that, she taught history and criminal law at the college level. She loves John, reading, and writing about herself in the third person.
avatar for John Van Stry

John Van Stry

John Van Stry writes Science Fiction and Fantasy. His best selling series are 'Portals of Infinity' and 'The Valens Legacy,' which is written under his Jan Stryvant pen name. He's had a varied career, ranging from tactical nuclear weapon systems to pacemakers. Hobbies are training... Read More →
avatar for Martin Tays

Martin Tays

Martin Tays has done many things in his life, some of them frankly quite odd. He ran a nuclear reactor on a fast attack submarine, built props for movies and TV shows, ran security for a 50,000 resident apartment complex, and professionally wrangled rats. He has also washed dishes... Read More →
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A.G. Thompson

Reared on a West Texas ranch, A.G. Thompson is a veteran of the US Air Force, having served during the Cold War and earned the rank of Staff Sergeant. He earned Bachelor of Arts degrees in both English Literature and History from the University of Louisville. He has been a competition... Read More →
avatar for Shane Tourtellotte

Shane Tourtellotte

Shane Tourtellotte has been a pro SF writer since 1998, making his primary residence in Analog. His eight-year detour into baseball writing included some alternate history, so it counts too. Don’t hold that one Hugo nomination against him: it was many years ago. Shane lives in western... Read More →
avatar for Oren Truitt

Oren Truitt

Woodley Oren Truitt III is a man of many parts.  In his 64 years he has packed in several careers and adventures.  Oren holds a BS in biology & chemistry and a MA in History with a Certificate of Archival Administration. He hopes someday to go back for his doctorate in history... Read More →
avatar for Brian Urbanek

Brian Urbanek

Brian has been making games since the mid 90s, and still hasn't learned his lesson. He works primarily in online video games, and specializes in economies, systems work, and social mechanics. Some of his highest profile recent titles are XCom 2 and the last eight years of Call of... Read More →
avatar for Zane Voss

Zane Voss

Zane Voss holds bachelor's and master’s degrees in engineering from the Missouri University of Science & Technology. His day job is working as a partner in an engineering consulting firm in the steel industry. If you’re either interested or unable to flee quickly enough, he will... Read More →
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Benjamin Wallace

Benjamin Wallace is the bestselling author of Post-Apocalyptic Nomadic Warriors, Junkers, the Dad vs. series and other nonsense. He lives in Dallas, Texas where he complains about the heat. A lot.
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C.V. Walter

Get ready to blast off into a galaxy of romance with C.V. Walter, the mastermind behind the pulse-pounding alien love story, “The Alien’s Accidental Bride”! This interstellar indie sensation is just the beginning – C.V. is currently crafting a whole universe of out-of-this-world... Read More →
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Wally Waltner

Wally Waltner is a tech consulting executive and gentleman science fiction/fantasy author. Born and raised on a farm in South Dakota, his early creative muses led him down a musical path and earned music scholarships and eventually a BMus degree in brass performance from Saint Olaf... Read More →
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Mark Wandrey

International bestselling author of military sci-fi, space opera, and zombie apocalypse, Mark Wandrey is also the only 4 time DragonCon Dragon Award finalist! Newest Release - Winged Hussars: Andromeda - Book 9 in the 4HU Phoenix Initiative series, set in the Four Horsemen mil-sf... Read More →
avatar for D.S. Watson

D.S. Watson

D.S. Watson started his professional writing career as a reporter for the Shelbyville Times Gazette. He also worked for the U.S.D.A Forest Service, and as a writer-editor for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. He wrote disability opinions for the Social Security Administration... Read More →
avatar for David M. Weber

David M. Weber

David Weber was born in Cleveland a long, long time ago, and grew up in rural South Carolina. He was a bookworm from childhood, blessed with a father who collected autographed copies of every E. E. Smith hardcover and introduced him to Jack Williamson at the tender age of 10 and a... Read More →
avatar for Toni Weisskopf

Toni Weisskopf

Toni Weisskopf is the publisher of Baen Books, a leading publisher of SF and fantasy for 40 years. She is also a member of the Interstellar Research Group board of advisors. She is the mother of a delightful daughter, and presides over a household that includes three dogs, one cat... Read More →
avatar for Rich Weyand

Rich Weyand

Rich Weyand started writing eight years ago and has published over thirty-five novels in seven series: CHILDERS (Military), EMPIRE (Galactic Empire), COLONY (Colonization), PANTHEON (Hard Fantasy), AGENCY (Espionage), TALBOT (Exploration), and SHARP (Espionage). He writes ‘competent... Read More →
avatar for Michael Z. Williamson

Michael Z. Williamson

Michael Z. Williamson is an SF author, military consultant, and Editor at Large for Survivalblog. His novels include the popular Freehold universe, and "The Hero" (with John Ringo). He has consulted for productions on Discovery Networks, the Outdoor Channel, and National Geographic... Read More →
avatar for Marisa Wolf

Marisa Wolf

Marisa Wolf is a second-generation nerd who started writing genre stories at six. At least one was good enough to be laminated, and she's been chasing that high ever since. Over the years she taught middle school, was headbutted by an alligator, built a career in education, earned... Read More →
avatar for Brisco Woods

Brisco Woods

Brisco retired from the USAF and TNANG in 2015 and became a REALTOR working in east Tennessee. Seeing the success two of his siblings were having as authors, he decided to give it a try. Now, five short stories, one novella, and two novels later, he’s an official multi-national... Read More →
avatar for Chris Woods

Chris Woods

Christopher Woods, writer of fiction, teller of tales, and professional liar was born way too long ago to be talking about it and has spent the majority of his life with a book in hand. He is known for his popular Soulguard series and creating the shared universe in The Fallen World... Read More →
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Irene Zielinski

Irene Zielinski is a game designer, editor, performer, and menace from Atlanta, Georgia. She created Scurvy Buggers, a troupe-style dramedy about found family and romance in the Golden Age of Piracy. Her newest project, Dahlia's Diversions for Peculiar Parties, is an anthology of... Read More →
Friday June 20, 2025 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event Programming) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402
  Main Programming, Event

6:00pm EDT

A TRMN Interview with David M. Weber
Friday June 20, 2025 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom B
David Westover, 4th Space Lord of The Royal Manticoran Navy (TRMN), will interview Past Literary Guest of Honor David M. Weber.
Guests
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David M. Weber

David Weber was born in Cleveland a long, long time ago, and grew up in rural South Carolina. He was a bookworm from childhood, blessed with a father who collected autographed copies of every E. E. Smith hardcover and introduced him to Jack Williamson at the tender age of 10 and a... Read More →
Friday June 20, 2025 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom B Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Main Programming, Event

7:00pm EDT

Meet the Guests of Honor
Friday June 20, 2025 7:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom B
Futurist, magazine writer and host of the award-winning podcast The Future And You, Stephen Euin Cobb will do a recorded interview with the Guests of Honor.
Guests
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Stephen Euin Cobb

Stephen Euin Cobb is an author, novelist, magazine writer, futurist, award-winning podcaster, and host of The Interstellar Research Group's video series “From Here to the Stars,” for which he won the Iridani Award in 2021. For over ten years, he produced a weekly podcast, "The... Read More →
avatar for Chaz Kemp

Chaz Kemp

LC37 Artist Guest of Honor
Chaz loves SteamPunk, CyberPunk, and Fantasy. SteamPunk and CyberPunk are all about creatively defying authority and forging your own path. It’s resistance as art. Fantasy is all about visualizing your dream and then defying the odds to achieve it no matter who you are or what you... Read More →
avatar for Charles E. Gannon

Charles E. Gannon

LC37 Literary Guest of Honor
Dr. Charles E. Gannon is best known for the Caine Riordan series of hard sf novels, which include multiple best-sellers, 4 finalists for the Nebula, 2 for the Dragon, and a Compton Crook winner. His epic fantasy series, The Vortex of Worlds, has also been an awards finalist and a... Read More →
avatar for Kim Steadman

Kim Steadman

LC37 STEM Guest of Honor
Kim Steadman received both her Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering from Georgia Tech. After graduate school, Kim started her career at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. While at JPL, she worked on several missions including the Mars Exploration Rover... Read More →
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Ben Yalow

LC37 Special Guest of Honor
Ben Yalow’s very first convention he attended as a fan was Lunacon in 1971, followed later that year by his first Worldcon, Noreascon. Ben first started staffing conventions at the very first Star Trek convention in January 1972, followed by the Worldcon in 1973, Torcon 2. He has... Read More →
Friday June 20, 2025 7:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom B Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Main Programming, Event

9:00pm EDT

Shabbos Service
Friday June 20, 2025 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room
Please join us for a (relatively) short, simple Friday evening service for Shabbos. You don't have to be Jewish to attend! If we have a proper minyan (to be counted for that, you do have to be Jewish), we will do a Mourner's Kaddish.
Friday June 20, 2025 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Main Programming, Event

10:00pm EDT

Friday Night Karaoke
Friday June 20, 2025 10:00pm - Saturday June 21, 2025 1:00am EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
Sarah Martin will DJ Friday Night Karaoke! Come out and show us your pipes!
Guests
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Sarah Martin

Treasurer & Webmaster, LibertyCon™
Sarah has been hanging around LibertyCon for years, so it was only a matter of time till Brandy and Don roped her into volunteering as staff and even convincing her to join the Board of Directors, now serving as LibertyCon's Treasurer and Webmaster. Conveniently, she has years of... Read More →
Friday June 20, 2025 10:00pm - Saturday June 21, 2025 1:00am EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
  Main Programming, Event
 
Saturday, June 21
 

8:30am EDT

Walking with the Pros
Saturday June 21, 2025 8:30am - 9:30am EDT
CC - Ballroom F/G (Dealer's Room) - Autographs in Hall Outside
Toni Weisskopf hosts Walking with the Pros, a chance to get a little exercise before the con on Saturday morning. Meet outside the dealer's room.
Guests
avatar for Toni Weisskopf

Toni Weisskopf

Toni Weisskopf is the publisher of Baen Books, a leading publisher of SF and fantasy for 40 years. She is also a member of the Interstellar Research Group board of advisors. She is the mother of a delightful daughter, and presides over a household that includes three dogs, one cat... Read More →
Saturday June 21, 2025 8:30am - 9:30am EDT
CC - Ballroom F/G (Dealer's Room) - Autographs in Hall Outside Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402
  Main Programming, Event

2:00pm EDT

Baen Travelling Road Show
Saturday June 21, 2025 2:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event Programming)
Toni Weisskopf will be running the crowd through the best of what's going on in the Baen universe in this perennial event. (And there will be giveaways!)
Guests
avatar for Kacey Ezell

Kacey Ezell

Kacey Ezell is a helicopter pilot with 3000+ hours in the UH-1N Huey, Mi-171, and EC130 helicopters. When not beating the air into submission, she writes sci-fi/fantasy/horror/noir/ alternate history fiction. She is a two-time Dragon Award Finalist for Best Alternate History and won... Read More →
avatar for Les Johnson

Les Johnson

Les is a physicist, author, and NASA technologist. He has been a LibertyCon GoH 3 times, winner of the Phoenix Award, and was featured in the March 2019 issue of National Geographic. Les leads two NASA space missions, holds 3 patents, and is a member of the International Academy of... Read More →
avatar for Lydia Sherrer

Lydia Sherrer

Award-winning and USA Today-bestselling author of snark-filled adventures, Lydia Sherrer thrives on creating stories you love to love, and hate to leave. She is the author of the bestselling urban fantasy Love, Lies, and Hocus Pocus universe of books featuring several series, which... Read More →
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John Ringo

John Ringo's science fiction is action-oriented and abounding in characters to root for. He is the creator of the New York Times best-selling military science fiction series The Posleen Wars, with over one million copies in print. Ringo is also the author of the far-future science... Read More →
avatar for Jody Lynn Nye

Jody Lynn Nye

Jody Lynn Nye lists her main career activity as ‘spoiling cats.’ When not engaged upon this worthy occupation, she writes fantasy and science fiction books and short stories.Before breaking away from gainful employment to write full time, Jody worked as a file clerk, book-keeper... Read More →
avatar for Marisa Wolf

Marisa Wolf

Marisa Wolf is a second-generation nerd who started writing genre stories at six. At least one was good enough to be laminated, and she's been chasing that high ever since. Over the years she taught middle school, was headbutted by an alligator, built a career in education, earned... Read More →
avatar for Bill Fawcett

Bill Fawcett

Bill Fawcett is an American writer, editor, anthologist, and game designer. He co-authored the official Mycroft Holmes Mysteries and over a dozen other novels. Bill has also written almost a dozen historical non-fiction books. He founded Mayfair Games and also designs board and computer... Read More →
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Jason Cordova

Bestselling author Jason Cordova was born in California and is both a John W. Campbell Award and Dragon Award finalist (though not in the same year). He is the editor of the anthology Dancing with Destruction, author of the novel Mountain of Fire, and co-author of Monster Hunter Memoirs... Read More →
avatar for Toni Weisskopf

Toni Weisskopf

Toni Weisskopf is the publisher of Baen Books, a leading publisher of SF and fantasy for 40 years. She is also a member of the Interstellar Research Group board of advisors. She is the mother of a delightful daughter, and presides over a household that includes three dogs, one cat... Read More →
avatar for Charles E. Gannon

Charles E. Gannon

LC37 Literary Guest of Honor
Dr. Charles E. Gannon is best known for the Caine Riordan series of hard sf novels, which include multiple best-sellers, 4 finalists for the Nebula, 2 for the Dragon, and a Compton Crook winner. His epic fantasy series, The Vortex of Worlds, has also been an awards finalist and a... Read More →
avatar for Griffin Barber

Griffin Barber

Griffin spent his youth in four different countries, learning three languages, and burning all his bridges. Finally settled in East Tennessee and retired from a day job as a police officer in a major metropolitan department out west, he lives the good life with his lovely wife, crazy-smart... Read More →
avatar for Chris Kennedy

Chris Kennedy

A Webster Award winner and three-time Dragon Award finalist, Chris Kennedy is a Science Fiction/Fantasy author, speaker, and small-press publisher who has written over 70 books and published more than 500 others. Get his free book, “Shattered Crucible,” at his website, https://chriskennedypublishing.com... Read More →
avatar for David (D.J.) Butler

David (D.J.) Butler

Dave (D.J.) Butler has mostly recovered from being a lawyer. He writes fantasy for adults (WITCHY EYE, Baen) and kids (THE KIDNAP PLOT, Knopf), loves languages and board games, and plays bad guitar. He's married and has three kids. Dave is also acquisitions editor for Kevin J. Anderson's... Read More →
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Bjorn Hasseler

Bjorn Hasseler found Eric Flint's novel 1632 in a public library. Then he discovered that fans were not just allowed but encouraged to write in the 1632 universe. He writes the Neustatter's European Security Service thread (A Matter of Security, Missions of Security, Security Threats... Read More →
avatar for Robert E. Hampson

Robert E. Hampson

Dr. Robert E. Hampson is a Neuroscientist and author. By day, he is a professor at Wake Forest School of Medicine, studying how our brains encode memory. By night, he writes military, adventure and hard-science Science Fiction as well as nonfiction articles explaining science to the... Read More →
avatar for Monalisa Foster

Monalisa Foster

Monalisa is an award-winning science fiction author whose writing career really began when she taught herself English by translating Heinlein juveniles at the public library. She would copy sentences in English, translate them into Romanian, and then write out new words ten times... Read More →
avatar for Gary Poole

Gary Poole

Gary Poole is the founder and longtime host of Robot Battles, has edited three national bestselling anthologies set in John Ringo's "Black Tide Rising" universe (which a fourth coming in 2023), and runs the Southern Fandom Resource Guide website. And if that wasn't enough, he has... Read More →
avatar for Gray Rinehart

Gray Rinehart

Graham W. "Gray" Rinehart Rinehart is a writer, an editor, a singer/songwriter, and a retired Air Force officer. He is the only person to have commanded a USAF satellite tracking station, written speeches for Presidential appointees, devised a poetic form, and had music on The Dr... Read More →
avatar for Tim Akers

Tim Akers

Tim Akers is a fantasy novelist, a gamer, and utterly unemployable in the traditional sense. His novels include the dark fantasy Wraithbound, lighter portal series Knight Watch, and high action hard magic world of Bladecaster. He lives in Chicago with his indefatigable wife and a... Read More →
avatar for Sean Patrick Hazlett

Sean Patrick Hazlett

Sean Patrick Hazlett is an Army veteran and former captain, speculative fiction writer and editor, and finance executive in the San Francisco Bay area. He was born in Wilmington, Delaware, but trekked across the country to pursue an AB in history and BS in electrical engineering from... Read More →
avatar for Brent Roeder

Brent Roeder

Brent Roeder, PhD, is a neuroscience researcher that is exploring how to restore damaged memory function. A life long geek, he enjoys writing sci-fi and fantasy to relax from work. Very occasionally he even remembers to finish a story
avatar for David M. Weber

David M. Weber

David Weber was born in Cleveland a long, long time ago, and grew up in rural South Carolina. He was a bookworm from childhood, blessed with a father who collected autographed copies of every E. E. Smith hardcover and introduced him to Jack Williamson at the tender age of 10 and a... Read More →
avatar for James L. Cambias

James L. Cambias

James L. Cambias is an SF writer and game designer. His most recent novel is The Scarab Mission, in 2023. His short stories have appeared in Nature, F&SF, and several anthologies. His most recent game is Weird War I. He is a partner in Zygote Games and blogs at www.jamescambias.c... Read More →
avatar for Amanda Montandon

Amanda Montandon

Amanda Montandon is a Colorado mountain girl living in North Carolina with her husband, author Kal Spriggs, their son, & 4 mischievous felines. A Jane-of-All-Trades, she has experience in law enforcement, veterinary care, private security, & more. She runs her own editing business... Read More →
avatar for Mike Massa

Mike Massa

LC37 Master of Ceremonies
Mike Massa has lived an adventurous life, including stints as a sailor, a banker, and a tech-head. He's lived outside the US for several years, beyond the usual military deployments. Mike writes novels and shorts in MilSF, SF, Fantasy, Horror, and non-fiction.A lover of Liberty Con... Read More →
avatar for Bethanne Kim

Bethanne Kim

Bethanne Kim is a publisher with the new alternate history magazine “Eric Flint’s 1632 & Beyond” and a writer in the 1632verse. She also writes about emergency preparedness (including on TheSurvivalMom.com), zombies, being a Scout leader, the US Constitution, and whatever else... Read More →
avatar for Melissa Olthoff

Melissa Olthoff

Melissa Olthoff spent her youth daydreaming about riding dragons and slaying monsters. After joining the United States Air Force, she might not have gotten to ride any dragons, but she had plenty of real-world adventures over the years—including flying the T-6, becoming a certified... Read More →
avatar for Chris Smith

Chris Smith

A native Texan by birth (if not geography), Chris moved 'home' as soon as he could. Attending Texas A+M​, he learned quickly that there was more to college than beer and football games. He relocated to San Antonio, attending SAC and UTSA, graduating in late 2000 with a BA in Lit... Read More →
avatar for John Van Stry

John Van Stry

John Van Stry writes Science Fiction and Fantasy. His best selling series are 'Portals of Infinity' and 'The Valens Legacy,' which is written under his Jan Stryvant pen name. He's had a varied career, ranging from tactical nuclear weapon systems to pacemakers. Hobbies are training... Read More →
avatar for Casey Moores

Casey Moores

Casey Moores was a USAF rescue/special ops C-130 pilot for over 17 years- airdropping, air re-fueling, and flying into tiny blacked-out dirt airstrips in bad places using night vision goggles. He’s been to those places and done those things with those people. Now he lives a quieter... Read More →
avatar for Michael Z. Williamson

Michael Z. Williamson

Michael Z. Williamson is an SF author, military consultant, and Editor at Large for Survivalblog. His novels include the popular Freehold universe, and "The Hero" (with John Ringo). He has consulted for productions on Discovery Networks, the Outdoor Channel, and National Geographic... Read More →
avatar for Ben Yalow

Ben Yalow

LC37 Special Guest of Honor
Ben Yalow’s very first convention he attended as a fan was Lunacon in 1971, followed later that year by his first Worldcon, Noreascon. Ben first started staffing conventions at the very first Star Trek convention in January 1972, followed by the Worldcon in 1973, Torcon 2. He has... Read More →
avatar for Jonathan Koan

Jonathan Koan

Jonathan Koan is a Professional Book Reviewer on YouTube. His YouTube channel, "Jonathan Koan", features book reviews, author interviews, rankings, book hauls, unboxings, recommendations and more! He reviews Science Fiction, Fantasy, Media Tie-in Fiction, Thrillers, and more!
Saturday June 21, 2025 2:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event Programming) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402
  Main Programming, Event

5:00pm EDT

Costume Promenade Awards
Saturday June 21, 2025 5:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
CC - Mtg Room 2 (Kids Programming/Readings)
The Costume Promenade Awards for the best costumes will be presented by Artist Guest of Honor Chaz Kemp.
Guests
avatar for Oren Truitt

Oren Truitt

Woodley Oren Truitt III is a man of many parts.  In his 64 years he has packed in several careers and adventures.  Oren holds a BS in biology & chemistry and a MA in History with a Certificate of Archival Administration. He hopes someday to go back for his doctorate in history... Read More →
avatar for Tamara Lowery

Tamara Lowery

Tamara Lowery, author of The Adventures of Pigg & Woolfe serial and the Waves of Darkness series, is a native of Chattanooga. She writes pirates that aren't nice and vampires that don't sparkle as well as high-flying steampunk adventure.
avatar for Susan Brady

Susan Brady

Susan Brady has been running Make It, Take It since LibertyCon 4. She is into a little bit of everything, and loves making pretty things and playing with feathers and glitter and turning them into incredible, ready to wear costumes. A true Liberty stalwart and creator of a Liberty... Read More →
avatar for Chaz Kemp

Chaz Kemp

LC37 Artist Guest of Honor
Chaz loves SteamPunk, CyberPunk, and Fantasy. SteamPunk and CyberPunk are all about creatively defying authority and forging your own path. It’s resistance as art. Fantasy is all about visualizing your dream and then defying the odds to achieve it no matter who you are or what you... Read More →
avatar for Debi Chowdhury

Debi Chowdhury

Member of International Costumers Guild, Sick Pups and Noel. Worldcon Masquerade Judge 2023 Chicago, Worldcon Masquerade CoDirector Helsinki 2017, Asst Director Worldcon Masquerade london 2014, Masquerade judge at Philcon, Balticon, Masquerade staff at many conventions. Costume panelist... Read More →
Saturday June 21, 2025 5:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
CC - Mtg Room 2 (Kids Programming/Readings) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402
  Main Programming, Event

6:00pm EDT

Art and Charity Auction Setup - Closed
Saturday June 21, 2025 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
CC - Mtg Room 5 (Main Event Programming)
Closed for setup of the LC 37's Art and Charity Auction.
Saturday June 21, 2025 6:00pm - 7:00pm EDT
CC - Mtg Room 5 (Main Event Programming) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402
  Main Programming, Event

7:00pm EDT

Art and Charity Auction
Saturday June 21, 2025 7:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
CC - Mtg Room 5 (Main Event Programming)
Come out and bid at LC 37's Art and Charity Auction. Our charity of choice this year is Isaiah 117 House.
Guests
avatar for Brandy Bolgeo Hendren

Brandy Bolgeo Hendren

Brandy Bolgeo Hendren is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of LibertyCon and the daughter of the founder of LibertyCon, Richard T. "Uncle Timmy" Bolgeo. Brandys first convention was Chattacon 2 in 1976 and since that time she has been actively involved in the fandom community... Read More →
avatar for Steve Jackson

Steve Jackson

Steve Jackson graduated from Rice University in Houston. While there, he spent most of his time playing wargames and working on the student paper, the Thresher (he spent two years as editor). He became a writer and game publisher, proving that college can be very valuable as long... Read More →
avatar for Dr. Mark Paulk

Dr. Mark Paulk

Dr. Mark Paulk is currently on the faculty at the University of Texas at Dallas teaching software engineering. Before UTD, he was with Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh for 25 years, researching and teaching on best practices for software engineering and service management... Read More →
avatar for Ann Robards

Ann Robards

Reading her way through the children's section of the local Public Library, 10 year old Ann found Ray Bradbury's "R is For Rocket" and "S is For Space" in the back corner. Thank you, Mr. Bradbury for sparking a lifelong love of the Science Fiction and Fantasy genres. Both parents... Read More →
avatar for Terry Maggert

Terry Maggert

Terry has authored 79 books, including the Backyard Starship, Peacemaker Wars, and Messenger series. He lives on a compound near Nashville, and is actively seeking to purchase a giraffe. He's a car enthusiast, a runner, and a collector of vintage science fiction in all forms. He is... Read More →
Saturday June 21, 2025 7:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
CC - Mtg Room 5 (Main Event Programming) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402
  Main Programming, Event

7:00pm EDT

Atlanta Radio Theatre Company Setup - Closed
Saturday June 21, 2025 7:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event Programming)
Room closed for Atlanta Radio Theatre Company setup
Guests
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Atlanta Radio Theatre Company

Since 1984, the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company has been performing, recording, and broadcasting dramatic audio -- fully dramatized, fully sound-scaped audio drama, far beyond the readings and "audio books" you can find in every bookstore. We like to think that what we do is classic... Read More →
Saturday June 21, 2025 7:00pm - 9:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event Programming) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402
  Main Programming, Event

9:00pm EDT

Art and Charity Auction Teardown - Closed
Saturday June 21, 2025 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
CC - Mtg Room 5 (Main Event Programming)
Closed for teardown of the LC 37's Art and Charity Auction.
Saturday June 21, 2025 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
CC - Mtg Room 5 (Main Event Programming) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402
  Main Programming, Event

9:00pm EDT

Havdallah
Saturday June 21, 2025 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room
Please join us in bidding farewell to Shabbos. This will be a short, informal service, and you don't have to be Jewish.
Saturday June 21, 2025 9:00pm - 10:00pm EDT
M - Director's Room Chattanooga Marriott Downtown 2 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402, USA
  Main Programming, Event

9:00pm EDT

Atlanta Radio Theatre Company (ARTC)
Saturday June 21, 2025 9:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event Programming)
Atlanta Radio Theatre Company (ARTC) will perform:

An episode of Rory Rammer, Space Marshal: The O'Chronos Option - The infamous scientist and would-be time traveler Sinead O'Chronos is at it again! But the last two times she attempted a time travel experiment a Godlike Superbeing from the future appeared to thwart her and this time he's nowhere to be found. What could the not-so-good doctor be up to that wouldn't attract attention? Written and created by Ron N. Butler

and

Mae and J.U.N.E. - Dr. Annie Mae and her team are developing their AI, J.U.N.E., to be a therapy assistant. But when J.U.N.E. starts to show signs of higher intelligence, questions arise. When does a machine become a person? How will we know when it does? Written by Ellie Cook
Guests
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William Alan Ritch

As President, Technician, Writer, Director, Producer - Bill Ritch is a long-serving member of ARTC and has directed and produced countless live and studio productions. He is the author of The Doom of the Mummy, The Menace From Earth (adapted from the Robert A. Heinlein short story... Read More →
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Dave Schroeder

Dave Schroeder (SHRAY-der) is the author of the Guardian Keeps and Congruent Mage fantasy series as well as the Xenotech Support science fiction humor series. He is a retired IT executive from Atlanta who enjoys performing with the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company. Dave also runs a... Read More →
avatar for Atlanta Radio Theatre Company

Atlanta Radio Theatre Company

Since 1984, the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company has been performing, recording, and broadcasting dramatic audio -- fully dramatized, fully sound-scaped audio drama, far beyond the readings and "audio books" you can find in every bookstore. We like to think that what we do is classic... Read More →
Saturday June 21, 2025 9:00pm - 11:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event Programming) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402
  Main Programming, Event
 
Sunday, June 22
 

9:00am EDT

Non-denominational Prayer Service
Sunday June 22, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
Non-denominational Prayer Service, hosted by Gray Rinehart
Guests
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Sam Robb

Sam Robb is an urban fantasy writer from Pittsburgh who draws inspiration from back alleys, graffiti, and urban exploration. He’s published in his flash fiction collection, One October Night, as well as multiple anthologies, and edited the Stories in the Key of Tull anthologies... Read More →
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Gray Rinehart

Graham W. "Gray" Rinehart Rinehart is a writer, an editor, a singer/songwriter, and a retired Air Force officer. He is the only person to have commanded a USAF satellite tracking station, written speeches for Presidential appointees, devised a poetic form, and had music on The Dr... Read More →
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Shari Robb

Shari Robb is a loving wife, mother, technical writer, and counselor. She has worked as an editor for political campaigns, multiple non-fiction books, and shorts from the Alpha Mercs. Her work as a freelance editor includes multiple SF/Fantasy anthologies, including game fiction... Read More →
Sunday June 22, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am EDT
M - Plaza Ballroom C
  Main Programming, Event

3:00pm EDT

Closing Ceremonies - Come Bitch at Brandy!
Sunday June 22, 2025 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event Programming)
Did you have a great time at the convention? Or was there something that absolutely irritated you? Either way, come out and let us know at our Closing Ceremonies.
Guests
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Sarah Martin

Treasurer & Webmaster, LibertyCon™
Sarah has been hanging around LibertyCon for years, so it was only a matter of time till Brandy and Don roped her into volunteering as staff and even convincing her to join the Board of Directors, now serving as LibertyCon's Treasurer and Webmaster. Conveniently, she has years of... Read More →
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Brandy Bolgeo Hendren

Brandy Bolgeo Hendren is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of LibertyCon and the daughter of the founder of LibertyCon, Richard T. "Uncle Timmy" Bolgeo. Brandys first convention was Chattacon 2 in 1976 and since that time she has been actively involved in the fandom community... Read More →
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Rich Groller

Programming Director
Our own LibertyCon Director of Programming, Dr. Richard Groller, is also an author in his own right. He is co-author of The Warrior's Edge (with Janet Morris and COL John Alexander), and a contributing author to The American Warrior (Janet and Chris Morris, Eds.), and to 7 volumes... Read More →
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Michael Gants

Michael Gants is a science fiction and fantasy author and retired Navy submariner. He currently works as an inspector at Sequoyah Nuclear Plant. His other jobs have included nuclear mechanic, anti-terrorism trainer, small craft boarding specialist, programmer, journalist, and aquarium... Read More →
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Ann Robards

Reading her way through the children's section of the local Public Library, 10 year old Ann found Ray Bradbury's "R is For Rocket" and "S is For Space" in the back corner. Thank you, Mr. Bradbury for sparking a lifelong love of the Science Fiction and Fantasy genres. Both parents... Read More →
Sunday June 22, 2025 3:00pm - 4:00pm EDT
CC - Ballroom E (Main Event Programming) Chattanooga Convention Center 1 Carter St, Chattanooga, TN 37402
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