Out of the Ruins

Carmen Maria Machado is the author of Wastelands, a collection that explores themes of horror and the uncanny. Her work often blends genre fiction with sharp, insightful prose.

China Miéville (born 6 September 1972 in Norwich) is an English writer of speculative fiction, best known for the Bas-Lag novels beginning with Perdido Street Station and for The City & The City. His work is often placed under the label "weird fiction" and within the New Weird. He holds the record for most Arthur C. Clarke Award wins, with three, and has also won the Hugo, World Fantasy and Locus awards. He studied social anthropology at Cambridge and took a PhD in international law at the Londo...

Clive Barker (born 5 October 1952) is an English writer, film director, and visual artist. Barker came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories, the Books of Blood, which established him as a leading horror writer. He has since written many novels and other works, and his fiction has been adapted into films, notably the Hellraiser and Candyman series. He was also the executive producer of the film Gods and Monsters. Barker's paintings and illustrations have been f...

Emily St. John Mandel is a Canadian novelist born in 1979 in Merville, British Columbia. Raised on Denman Island, she studied contemporary dance at the School of Toronto Dance Theatre before turning to fiction, and now lives in New York City. Her novels include Last Night in Montreal, The Singer's Gun, Station Eleven, The Glass Hotel, and Sea of Tranquility. Station Eleven won the 2015 Arthur C. Clarke Award and was adapted into an HBO Max limited series.

Preston Grassmann writes compelling stories about survival in broken worlds. His debut, "Out of the Ruins," offers a vivid look at what comes after collapse.