Vol. 2 #1

Annalee Newitz

Editor-in-Chief

In this issue From the Bridge: STARLOG Rides Again · Interview: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combination: Star Trek's LeVar Burton and Particle Physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein · On the Cover: Gabriel Yeganyan

A science journalist who also writes science fiction, Annalee Newitz is the Editor-in-Chief of STARLOG, the founder of io9, and the author of several books, including USA Today bestseller Automatic Noodle, Nebula Award nominee The Terraformers, and A Wall is Also a Road, out from Tor Books.

Meredith Borders

Senior Editor

In this issue Romantasy Rules: The History and Future of a Blockbuster Subgenre

Formerly the Editorial Director of Birth.Movies.Death., Meredith Borders is the Senior Editor of FANGORIA and STARLOG magazines, head of Fango's Single Issue Publications, and the author of First In Fright: The FANGORIA Compendium.

Jason Kauzlarich

Senior Art Director

Jason Kauzlarich is the Senior Art Director at STARLOG and the Creative Director at FANGORIA, laying out the magazines cover to cover. He sometimes writes about Magic: The Gathering on FANGORIA.com.

Gabriel Yeganyan

Cover artist

In this issue On the Cover: Gabriel Yeganyan

For this issue, concept artist and design consultant Gabriel Yeganyan illustrated the first new STARLOG cover in seventeen years. Yeganyan has previously worked with LucasFilm, Disney, Lionsgate and more.

Emma LeRae

Illustrator

In this issue Dinosaurs of the Future

Emma LeRae is an independent illustrator, writer, and sculptor living in the Pacific Northwest. She's currently working on her debut science fiction novel.

Charlie Jane Anders

In this issue Interview: The Rise of Sauron: The Star and Creators of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

Charlie Jane Anders is writing the comic book Star Trek: Zero Point for IDW. Her next book is Good Things Are Coming Your Way, about time-traveling vampires, rough justice, and love.

Riley Black

In this issue Dinosaurs of the Future

Riley Black is the bestselling author of Tyrant Lizard Queen, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, and many other books. Her favorite dinosaur is Deinocheirus.

LeVar Burton

In this issue Interview: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combination: Star Trek's LeVar Burton and Particle Physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

LeVar Burton has played Geordi La Forge across the Star Trek universe, Kunta Kinte in the pivotal ABC miniseries Roots and hosted the PBS educational show Reading Rainbow for 23 years. His memoir Take My Word For It is out this year.

Mike Chen

In this issue All the Failed Robotech Projects, In Order

Mike Chen is the New York Times bestselling author of original novels and tie-in stories for Star Wars, Star Trek, Marvel, and Critical Role. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, daughter, and many rescue animals.

Cyrus Farivar

In this issue Movie Set in a Box: How the LED Tech Used on The Mandalorian Is Changing Hollywood

Cyrus Farivar is an Oakland-based journalist, author, and educator. He currently serves as a deputy local editor at the East Bay Times, when he's not watching Star Trek.

Becky Ferreira

In this issue There Will Always Be Jobs for Space Farmers: Growing Food Beyond Earth

Becky Ferreira is a science reporter for 404 Media and creator of The BeX Files. She is the author of First Contact: The Story of Our Obsession with Aliens.

Nivair H. Gabriel

In this issue The Future Is Solarpunk

Nivair H. Gabriel is a children's book editor and aerospace engineer. She has written for io9, Fantasy Magazine, Weird Tales, Kirkus Reviews, and many more.

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Javier Grillo-Marxuach

In this issue Writer on Deck: So You Want to Write a Sci-Fi Movie?

Javier Grillo-Marxuach is a prolific writer of television, comic books, podcasts, and movies, best known as one of the Emmy Award-winning writers/producers of LOST and Jim Henson's The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. In addition to his work on screen, he serves as Professor of the Practice at the Film and Visual Media program at Carnegie Mellon University.

Bryné Hadnott

In this issue The Next Generation of Satellites Will Be Made Out of Wood

Bryné Hadnott is a former planetary scientist and Python software engineer turned freelance journalist and digital storyteller. They're interested in the intersection of science, technology, and society and writing stories about discoveries in the margins of knowledge.

Alan Henry

In this issue Vampire Therapists and Friendly Villagers: Video Games to Lift Your Spirits

Alan Henry is a service journalist and editor who helps readers embrace a healthier relationship with technology in their lives. He is the author of Seen, Heard, and Paid: The New Work Rules for the Marginalized, currently managing editor at PCMag, and formerly senior editor at WIRED, The New York Times, and editor-in-chief of Lifehacker.

Jordan Hoffman

In this issue Interview: Rarely Going Where No One Has Gone Before: Star Trek: Lower Decks' Mike McMahan

Jordan Hoffman hosts The STARLOG Podcast and composes STARLOG's weekly newsletter, The Lodestar. He is the coauthor of The Star Trek Book of Friendship, and writes about culture for Foreign Policy magazine, Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, and elsewhere.

Lisa Laman

In this issue Through the Wardrobe and Over the Moon: Upcoming SFF Indie Movies You Must See

Located on the autism spectrum and in Texas, Lisa Laman is a film critic and writer whose writing's been published in IndieWire, Polygon, and Looper, among other publications.

Evan Narcisse

In this issue Interview: The Ego-Death of Superman: Comics Writer Christopher Priest · Interview: The Trojan Horse of Pop Culture: Comics Writer Greg Pak

Evan Narcisse is a multimedia storyteller whose past work includes the Rise of the Black Panther graphic novel, Marvel's Black Panther: Wakanda Atlas, The New Day: Power of Positivity, Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Marvel's Avengers and the award-winning Dot's Home.

C.L. Polk

In this issue Into the Feywild: On Writing the D&D Romance The Feywild Job

C.L. Polk's first D&D campaign was The Temple of Elemental Evil. They bake bread, knit, and write fantasy novels in Calgary, Alberta.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

In this issue Interview: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combination: Star Trek's LeVar Burton and Particle Physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is a theoretical cosmologist, particle physicist and the author of The Disordered Cosmos and this year's The Edge of Space-Time. She sits down with LeVar Burton in this issue to talk Star Trek's influence on her own life and scientific journey.

Josie Riesman

In this issue Before It Was Scripture, It Was Rumor: How STARLOG Covered Star Wars Before the Movie Changed Everything

Josephine Riesman is a Chicago-born, Portugal-based journalist and the author of True Believer (Hugo finalist), Ringmaster (New York Times bestseller), and the newly released The Last Temptation of Beck.

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SI Rosenbaum

In this issue Comic: Case By Case

SI Rosenbaum is a writer, artist and musical saw player, originally from Boston, living in Lisbon since January 19, 2025.

Mahmud El Sayed

In this issue The Hidden Politics of Dune

Mahmud El Sayed is a British-Egyptian science fiction writer based in London. His debut novel, The Republic of Memory, is out now.

Janelle Shane

In this issue PEW PEW PEW: A Laser Scientist Grades Lasers from Science Fiction

Janelle Shane is a laser scientist with a PhD in photonics. She is the author of You Look Like a Thing and I Love You and creator of the blog AI Weirdness.

R.U. Sirius

In this issue Cyberpunk Was No Game: A Weird History of Mondo 2000

R.U. Sirius is a writer and musician who was editor and co-publisher of the legendary 1990s cyberpunk magazine Mondo 2000. With Shira Chess, he has co-authored Freaks in the Machine: Mondo 2000 in Late 20th Century Tech Culture, out from Strange Attractor Press in early 2027.

Grayson Thompson

In this issue Poem: Upon Learning My Favorite Planet Is The Only One With A Heart

Grayson Thompson is a Black, Jamaican-American, queer transgender cowboy poet who moonlights as a therapist. He is the inaugural Slam Poetry Champion of Santa Rosa and winner of the 2024 Jack McCarthy Book Prize for his full-length collection, A Congregation of Alligators.

Mia Tsai

In this issue STARLOG Bookshelf: Assassin Magic, Generation Ships, and a Shape-Shifting Demon

Mia Tsai is the author of Bitter Medicine and The Memory Hunters. She is also an associate editor at Giganotosaurus, a Hugo Award finalist for Best Semiprozine.

Brandon Wainerdi

In this issue The Ten Most Iconic Movie Starships, and How They Were Made

Brandon Wainerdi is a writer and interviewer, whose work can also be found on StarWars.com, Marvel.com, ILM.com, and FANGORIA. He is the author of two Star Wars books, including the recent Star Wars Encyclopedia of Starfighters and Other Vehicles.

Gary K. Wolfe

In this issue Bob Pepper and the Art of the Trippiest Paperbacks Ever

Gary K. Wolfe is an award-winning science fiction critic and editor, and co-host of The Coode Street Podcast with Jonathan Strahan. His lecture series How Great Science Fiction Works is available from The Great Courses, and his reviews appear in Locus magazine.