Month: August 2025

From military SF to body horror futures, Roderick Leeuwenhart (Netherlands, born in 1983) writes science fiction stories with a quintessentially Dutch character – and often a link to Japan and East Asia. His most recent Dutch SF novels are THE GENTLEMEN XVII (which takes place in a world where the Dutch East India Company never ceased to be) and STAR BODY (about a doomed mining crew inside a colossal alien corpse, also published in China). Roderick is a Harland Award winner and his short stories have featured in magazines such as Nature, Future Fiction and Analog.Website: https://www.roderickleeuwenhart.nl

Charles van Wettum (b. 1957, degrees in physics and astronomy, followed by economics) started writing SF a few years ago, after a long career in teaching. Some of his SF is science-oriented, such as his novel Kwantumschuim, some of it is speculative, like the collection ‘Anderen’, containing a wide variety of stories featuring aliens. He has also written climate fiction, like his collection of near-future stories ‘Koepel Goes’, and even thrillers, such as his latest novel ‘Viraal’. All his books and stories have a human touch. They’re intriguing, surprising and thought-provoking. And that is how speculative fiction should be. In his own words: ‘SF is about us and our world, even when it isn’t.’

Read more on www.wettum.org