Yvonne Howell is Professor of Russian and Global Studies at University of Richmond, USA. She has published extensively on Russian and Soviet science fiction and is the editor of Red Star Tales (2015).

Nikolai Krementsov is Professor at the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, University of Toronto, Canada. He is the author of many publications, including Revolutionary Experiments (2014) and With and Without Galton (2018).