George Penny is a best-selling author, a voracious speed-reader and an amateur polymath who has lived an eccentric life spanning over fifty locations and counting. 

She has been chased by a rock wielding mob, was nearly rammed off the road in a high-speed chase, dodged a spitting cobra, has been bitten by deadly spiders and has stepped on a stonefish. 

She has studied fine art, sociology, gender theory, cultural theory and psychotherapy. She may one day finish her PHD on energy politics.

She loves British comedy,  would cuddle an entire zoo if she could (even the snakes), loves debating philosophy, enjoys world cinema, absurd anime and new music every day. She considers both Ripley and the Alien Queen to be strong female role models.

She is utterly obsessed with sharks and would like to be eaten on her hundredth birthday by a low-flying great white.

Tony Johnson (AKA The Kraken) is an author and podcaster who has co-written multiple best-selling novels.

In a past life he worked in the oil industry, hammering a creative shaped brain into an analytic shaped career and got to play with most kinds of radiation, chaotic simulation, intelligent wells, neural networks, competitive bacteria and weak AI. His proudest moment was working out that a billion-dollar facility was plugged in backwards. 

Tony has lived all over the planet and once sold everything he owned and travelled the world living in a new country every three weeks until a pandemic said ‘no’.

He loves astrophysics, particle physics, durians, techno-utopianism, excessive complexity and 99.9% of cats. One day he will mash together enough editions of D&D for it to achieve sentience.