Ian Randal Strock (IanRandalStrock.com) is the editor and publisher of Fantastic Books (FantasticBooks.biz). He formerly edited Artemis Magazine, and served on the editorial staffs of Analog, Asimov’s, Baen Books, Science Fiction Chronicle, and many more. As a writer, his fiction has appeared in Analog, Nature, several anthologies, and much of it was recently collected in Wandering Through Time. He won two AnLab Awards for his work in Analog, and was named the 2025 recipient of the Edward E. Smith Memorial “Skylark” Award.