David Kernot is a South Australian author who writes fantasy, science fiction, climate fiction, crime, and horror and has eighty short story publications throughout Australia, the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. He is the indie author of The Seventeenth (2026), Maralinga Winds (2026), Not Like Us (2024), Gateway Through Time (2020), Impossible Futures: The Collected Works (2020), Beam Rider (2015), The Search for Giselle (2014), Future Worlds (2014), Autumn Comes Slowly (2013), Panspermic Earth (2013), and The Early Years (2013).