Alanna Horgan – Writer & Editor

Alanna is a wily and excitable lass from NSW who currently resides in Brisbane. She is not only the creator of Shades of Sentience, but is a master of studying, having completed a degree in English, Communications and Political Science as well as being on her way to a degree in Philosophy, Cognitive Science and Game Design.

As you can tell by her assortment of study choices, Alanna enjoys a wide range of things, including reading, writing, gaming, philosophising, designing and making clothes, pretty colours and shiny objects, to name but a few. She likes collecting clocks and swords, and has a special place in her heart for toast.

Lara Horgan – Writer & Editor

Using talents learned from her many years as a seamstress of funky and unusual clothes, Lara turned a few heads at this year’s Supanova as Yoko Littner. She is a Harry Potter aficionado and has written a fanfic about the Marauders in their school days, but wouldn’t be caught dead in a Hogwarts Uniform.

She is currently working on a very secret novel of the metaphysical fantasy variety, and her interests include reading, singing, the philosophy of music, religion and life in general, as well as speculating on the undoubted supremacy of Goku in all things (except the movie, but that wasn’t really Goku so it doesn’t count).

She is planning on studying early education, believes incubus should be the leaders of the free world, and is often sleepy.

Katharine Stubbs – Writer

Katharine likes to think she is the following: Writer, Sky Pirate, geek, Slytherin, snarkier than thou, easily obsessed, traveler in time and space, and a forest dame.

She started writing at age 12, has written almost every day since, and now dreams of someday living in a rain forest, writing to her heart’s content, with many cats and a loving husband that she’ll pick on for his ability to beta her work the best.

Katharine loves many things, the main obsessions being sushi, her kitten, her friends, and Japan.

Matthew Hartmann – Writer

Matthew Hartmann is an aspiring journalist from the USA. He is currently in his final year of study at Central Washington University and hopes to be finished on schedule in June 2010. When not writing he really enjoys travelling to whatever distant land catches his fancy at that given time. Matt has always been interested in science related stuff because of his Grandpa who worked on the Apollo Project as well as the Space Shuttles.

He is planning on writing a series of articles on the transhuman movement, as he wants to explore this very interesting and misunderstood area.

Kaelee Dean – Writer

Kaelee Dean is a rare species of chameleon whose most telling characteristic is her ever changing hair colour and complete inability to settle on one colour. She is an aspiring (read: struggling) writer, and dreams of writing books in a whimsical house in the country decorated with elements of Alice In Wonderland, indie pop art and Cirque du Soleil sets. She is an avid reader of Vertigo comics, and has a burning desire to meet Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean.

Her current works include several unfinished novels, their word counts numbering somewhere in the tens of thousands, and spends far too much time reading instead of doing important things (like cleaning and sleeping). She has probably the most eclectic personality in the world and enjoys hard rock, classical music, scene makeup and fashion, the goth lifestyle, collecting small plastic woodland animals, pink tea sets and chocolate milk. She also loves her Google phone, and has a hard time separating herself from it.

Adrian Love – Website Annihilator

Ever since I was using an earlier version of my firmware I longed to control the populace of the planet. My feelings cerebrum tells me to feel this is a step in the right direction.

Rayblx – Code Ninja

Descending from the secluded HTeMpLe of the CSSanctuary high on the Tibetan plateau, Rayblx has set out into the world in order to step the ancient cosmic path of DHTML. Practising the hidden arts of JS-kune-DOM, he can be found rendering aid to those in need or locked in mortal combat with his sworn enemies – the insidious Flash clan.