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Our Guests of Honor

We look forward to welcoming the following Guests of Honor:

Becky Chambers is the bestselling author of the Wayfarers series, the Monk and Robot novellas, and other works of science fiction. She is a two-time Hugo Award winner, a Locus Award winner, and has been nominated for the Nebula Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the Women's Prize for Fiction, among others. Her latest book is A Prayer for the Crown-Shy, the second installment of Monk and Robot. She just finished writing a new standalone novel, which we will hear about at the con.

Becky has a background in performing arts, and grew up in a family heavily involved in space science. She spends her free time playing video and tabletop games, watching bugs, and looking through her telescope. Having hopped around the world a bit, she has settled down (for the moment) in Humboldt County, California, where she lives with her wife. She hopes to see Earth from orbit one day.

Becky Chambers

American SF Writer

Aiki Mira (they/them) creates queer futures at the intersection of code and body. Their novels won the Kurd Laßwitz Preis (KLP) from 2023 to 2025, while their short fiction — published in English, French, and Chinese — has been honored with the KLP, the Deutscher Science Fiction Preis DSFP, and the Chrysalis Award of the European Science Fiction Society ESFS (2023). Essays on embodiment and utopia have appeared in Zeit Online and SWR Kultur.

Neongrau was adapted into an ARD radio drama series. Proxi is currently being translated into English for a US edition, and the latest novel Denial of Service, published by Fischer Tor in October 2025, is nominated for the KLP. Their first short story collection, Deshalb kann ich nicht fort, was released in March 2026 by Carcosa.

Beyond writing, Aiki co-hosts the podcast Das war morgen and divides their time between Hamburg and the realms of their imagination.

Aiki Mira

German SF Writer

Stjepan Šejić is a comic creator from Croatia. He is known for his years-long run on Witchblade alongside other Top Cow titles like Artifacts and Aphrodite IX. He also did art on DC Comics titles Aquaman, Suicide Squad, and Justice League Odyssey.

These days, he predominantly writes and draws his creator-owned series Sunstone, Fine Print (or how a divine contract may not be the best cure for a broken heart), Death Vigil, and his upcoming series Achilles Shield Maidens and The Queen and the Woodborn. Alongside those titles, he is known for his work as a writer/artist on the DC Comics series Harleen.

Stjepan Šejić

Croatian Comic Artist

Linda Šejić is a comic creator from Croatia. She provided the art on Top Cow's series Wildfire, Tales of Honor, and Swing, but she is best known for her creator-owned comics Blood Stain and Punderworld, which garnered massive popularity on the webcomic site Webtoons.

Linda Šejić

Croatian Comic Artist

Bernhard Hennen studied German lit, archaeology, and history at the University of Cologne. During his studies, he worked as a journalist. At the age of 18, he travelled to Nicaragua in the midst of civil war. Further travels took him to the Gaza Strip, Lebanon, Syria, and Ukraine.

In 1993, his first novel (Das Jahr des Greifen, written together with Wolfgang Hohlbein) was awarded the prize for best German fantasy novel. Bernhard Hennen has published more than 60 historical and fantasy novels, plus short stories and novellas. His books have been translated into 10 languages, sold over 5 million copies worldwide, and spent more than 100 weeks on the bestseller list in Germany.

In 2019, his novel Die Chroniken von Azuhr – Der Verfluchte was awarded the Seraph. In 2024, the album Finsterwacht by the band Saltatio Mortis, on which he collaborated, reached number 1 in the German album charts.

Photo credit: Stefan Sasse