What is Incensepunk?

For a short answer: high tech, high church.

It's science fiction that envisions a future where faith is a living part of culture.

For a long answer, see the incensepunk manifesto.

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Who Are We?

Master of the Administratum | Editor in Chief

Jon James

Jon James has a million hobbies and writing is one of them. Accordingly, he doesn’t spend long in one particular genre, or even form. He likes weird stuff, which you will probably quickly figure out if you read anything he has written. He has a spouse and two kids.

Jon James studied English Literature at Michigan State Universe and currently traffics his time to a bank as a Technical Writer, though he tries not to let that rub off on his other work.

Follow him: Twitter, bsky, Substack, jonjameswrites.com


Guild Steersman | Developmental Editor

Yuval Kordov

Yuval Kordov is a chronically creative nerd, tech professional, husband, and father to two amazing girls. Over the course of his random life, he has been a radio show DJ, produced experimental electronic music, created the world of Dark Legacies®, and built custom mechs with LEGO® bricks.


Hierodule | Marketing

Andrew Gillsmith

Andrew Gillsmith is a science fiction writer living in St. Louis, Missouri. He is the author of the Deserted Vineyard series, the Planet Gallywood series, and The Jerusalem Passage.

Gillsmith grew up in the Golden Age of Cyberpunk. Fittingly, his first job out of school was delivering mail for Jeff Bezos when he was still selling books via Listserv. Since then, he's worked in a number of interesting roles, including head of customer experience for the Kentucky Derby, leader of a proposed hyperloop project in the United States, head of data analysis for a healthcare company, and SVP of sales for a digital marketing agency. He currently works in publisher development in the programmatic advertising space.

He is married to Cheryl and has two young sons, a Great Dane, and a pet rat named Reggie.


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