Readercon 35 Guests of Honor

July 9 – 12, 2026

Boston Marriott Burlington in Burlington, MA

Phenderson Djèlí Clark

P. Djèlí Clark is the award winning and Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, and World Fantasy nominated author of the novels Abeni’s Song and A Master of Djinn, and the novellas The Dead Cat Tail Assassins, Ring Shout, The Black God’s Drums, and . His stories have appeared in online venues such as Tor.com, Daily Science Fiction, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Apex, Lightspeed, Fireside Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and in print anthologies including, Griots, Hidden Youth, and Clockwork Cairo. He is also a founding member of FIYAH Literary Magazine and a one-time reviewer at Strange Horizons. At present time, he resides in a small Edwardian castle in New England with his wife, twin daughters, and pet dragon (who suspiciously resembles a Boston Terrier). When so inclined he rambles on issues of speculative fiction, politics, and diversity at his aptly named blog The Disgruntled Haradrim.

David Gerrold

David Gerrold has been writing science fiction for fifty years, leaving a long trail of novels, scripts, short stories, columns, and articles in his wake.  He has worked on a dozen different television series, including Star Trek, Land Of The Lost, Sliders, Tales From The Darkside, Twilight Zone, and Babylon 5. 

He has published over sixty novels and short story collections. Gerrold's published series are The War Against The Chtorr series (A Matter For Men, A Day For Damnation, A Rage For Revenge, A Season For Slaughter), The Dingilliad Trilogy (Jumping Off The Planet, Bouncing Off The Moon, Leaping To The Stars), and The Star Wolf Trilogy (The Voyage Of The Star Wolf, The Middle Of Nowhere, Blood And Fire). His other novels include  the Hugo-nominated When HARLIE WAS ONE, and the Hugo and Nebula-nominated The Man Who Folded Himself. His most recent novels are thirteen, fourteen, fifteen o'clock, Jacob, and Hella.

In 1994, Gerrold shared the adventure of how he adopted his son in The Martian Child, a semi-autobiographical tale of a science fiction writer who discovers his adopted child might be a Martian. The Martian Child won the science fiction triple crown:  the Hugo, the Nebula, and the Locus Poll. It was the basis for the 2007 film "Martian Child" starring John Cusack and Amanda Peet. (The book is better.)

But despite all of that, David Gerrold is best known as the man who created tribbles for Star Trek, and Sleestaks for Land Of The Lost.

Memorial Guest of Honor

To be announced