Biography

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Alasdair Stuart is a professional enthusiast, pop culture analyst, and writer behind the award-nominated weekly newsletter, The Full Lid. He is a multiple Hugo finalist and serves on the board of the Escape Artists Foundation.

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Alasdair Stuart is a professional enthusiast, pop culture analyst, writer and voice actor. He serves on the board of the Escape Artists Foundation and hosts their weekly horror fiction podcast, PseudoPod. Alasdair is an Audioverse Award winner, a Hugo and BFA finalist, and has won the Karl Edward Wagner award twice. He writes the award-nominated free weekly pop culture newsletter THE FULL LID. Follow him on Bluesky for daily writing exercises, podcast and movie recommendations, and photos of his cat.

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Alasdair Stuart is a professional enthusiast, pop culture analyst, writer and voice actor. He is a multiple Hugo Award finalists including Best Fan Writer, a British Fantasy Society Best Non-fiction finalist for his weekly pop culture newsletter The Full Lid, and won multiple Audioverse Awards for his voice acting, including Roguemaker, Re: Dracula, Super Suits, The Magnus Archives and Among the Stacks.

He writes regularly for Sarah Gailey’s Stone Soupe and has written nonfiction for numerous genre and pop culture venues, including regular appearances at the Hugo Award-winning Ditch Diggers and for Fox Spirit Books. His game writing includes work for Star Trek, Chill, ENie-nominated work on the Doctor Who RPG, and After The War co-created with Jason Pitre of Genesis of Legend.

He serves on the board of the non-profit Escape Artists Foundation, along with being lead host of their horror podcast, PseudoPod. He’s also a regular on their science fiction podcast, Escape Pod, where he’s celebrating the show’s 20th birthday with a series of flashbacks to some of the ‘big number’ stories of the Pod’s voyage to date. He is a frequent guest and presenter on podcasts, with voice acting credits including Red Valley, Shadows at the Door, The Secret of St. Kilda, and The Magnus Archives.

Alasdair’s most recent longform work is ‘Brasso’s War’, an essay for the first volume of Andor Analysed, a series discussing Andor through the lens of socialism and community organising. He’s written several books for the Black Archive collection of academic Doctor Who treatises by Obverse Books, including providing bookend pieces for their recent volume on Flux. He has two volumes of expanded essays from PseudoPod — as well as multiple short stories — available from Fox Spirit Books.

A frequent awards judge including the Arthur C. Clarke, The Kitschies, Brave New Words and the BFS, he blogs at www.alasdairstuart.com and posts photos of his cat on Bluesky.

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“[then we have] Alasdair Stuart, whose enthusiasm for genre art in the widest possible sense could power the entire national grid in perpetuity. His Full Lid newsletter will give you a much-needed injection of fiercely intelligent enthusiasm every Friday.” — Kit Power

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