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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 co-owns the Escape Artists podcast network.
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Alasdair Stuart is a professional enthusiast, pop culture analyst, writer and voice actor. He co-owns the Escape Artists podcasts and hosts their weekly horror fiction show, PseudoPod. He is an Audioverse Award winner, a multiple Hugo Award and BFA finalist, writes the multiple-award nominated weekly pop culture newsletter, The Full Lid, blogs at www.alasdairstuart.com , streams on Twitch, and tweets @AlasdairStuart.
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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 the 2021 Audioverse Award for his voice work in The Magnus Archives.
His nonfiction can be found at numerous genre and pop culture venues, including regular columns at the Hugo Award-winning Ditch Diggers and Fox Spirit Books. His game writing includes ENie-nominated work on the Doctor Who RPG, and After The War co-created with Genesis of Legend.
He co-owns the Escape Artists podcasts and hosts their horror podcast, PseudoPod, along with the Hugo Award nominated science fiction podcast, Escape Pod. He is a frequent guest and presenter on podcasts, with voice acting credits including The Magnus Archives and the upcoming Secret of St. Kilda.
Alasdair’s most recent work is THE DAY OF THE DOCTOR, the 50th instalment in the Black Archive collection of academic Doctor Who treatises by Obverse Books. 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 is on Twitter @AlasdairStuart.
Quotes
“[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
Memberships

Amazon Author Pages
- USA: Alasdair Stuart
- UK: Alasdair Stuart
Awards
Wins
- Best Performer in a New Production (Malachi Tessera, Roguemaker), Audio Verse Awards, 2022
- Karl Edward Wagner award, British Fantasy Society, 2021
- Best Performance of a Supporting Role in an Audio Play Production (Peter Lukas, The Magnus Archives), Audio Verse Awards, 2020
- Legend of Fantasycon award, British Fantasy Society, 2018
- Karl Edward Wagner award, British Fantasy Society, 2016
Nominations
- British Fantasy Awards 2022, Finalist – Best Nonfiction (The Full Lid)
- Hugo Awards 2022, Finalist – Best Fanzine (The Full Lid), Best Semiprozine (Escape Pod)
- Ignyte Awards 2022, Finalist – Best Fiction Podcast (Escape Pod; PseudoPod)
- British Fantasy Awards 2021, Finalist – Best Nonfiction (The Full Lid)
- Hugo Awards 2021, Finalist – Best Fan Writer, Best Fanzine (The Full Lid), Best Related Work (CoNZealand Fringe), Best Semiprozine (Escape Pod)
- Ignyte Awards 2021, Finalist – Best Fiction Podcast (Escape Pod)
- British Fantasy Awards 2020, Finalist – Best Nonfiction (The Full Lid)
- Hugo Awards 2020, Finalist – Best Fan Writer
- British Fantasy Awards 2019, Finalist – Best Nonfiction (The Full Lid)
- Hugo Awards 2019, Finalist – Best Fan Writer
- Parsec Award for Best Small Cast Short Form Story, 2014 (‘Growth Spurt’ by Paul Lorello, PseudoPod)
- Parsec Award for Best Magazine/Anthology, 2009 (PseudoPod)