Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of many books, including The Lost Cause , a solarpunk science-fiction novel of hope amidst the climate emergency. His nonfiction book The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation is a Big Tech disassembly manual. Other recent books include Red Team Blues , a science fiction crime thriller; Chokepoint Capitalism , nonfiction about monopoly and creative labor markets; the Little Brother series for young adults; In Real Life , a graphic novel; and the picture book Poesy the Monster Slayer. In 2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. J.R. Doyle is an Indonesian-American comic and storyboard artist for games and animation.

They live in the mountains with their partner and two cats. Blue Delliquanti is a comic artist and writer who lives in Minneapolis with a woman, a cat, and a dog. They teach comics courses at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. From 2012 to 2020 Blue drew and serialized the Prism Award-winning science fiction comic O Human Star . Blue is also the creator of graphic novels like Meal, Across a Field of Starlight, and Adversary . They enjoy cooking, traveling by train, and playing mahjong.