Dr Craig Cormick is an award-winning author and science commun- icator. He is former President of the Australian Science Communicators and former Chair of the ACT Writers Centre. He has published over 40 books of fiction and non-fiction and has twice been shortlisted for an Aurealis Award. He has been a guest at several international conventions, including leading panels at WorldCon, and. has been a writer in residence in Malaysia and Antarctica.