Stephanie Brail
I’m a California new age-y kinda gal. I teach yoga, surf, write, sing, and, of course, watch sci-fi for a little downtime. I have a number of other blogs, including Green Tech Girl and Namasteph Yoga Blog. I offer wellness coaching and healing services at The Feel Good Girl.
When I was growing up, I tended to get my sci-fi and fantasy in book form. Now that special effects have caught up to our imaginations, I prefer getting my sci-fi fix on film, and I save most of my reading time for non-fiction. Some of my all-time sci-fi favorites are: Star Trek: TOS, Farscape, and the original Star Wars (I guess I go for the classics). My current obsessions are: Lost, Supernatural, and Eli Stone.
Edwin McRae
I’m a fiction engine from the frigid frontiers of the south; where the rain falls from left to right, woolly beasts prowl and howl in the desolate hills, and the hardy natives have a hundred different words for mud.
I’ve published SF/F/H short stories, and written and produced a cyberpunk musical (Fatal Error). Now I’m a professional television writer, for NZ’s ‘Shortland Street’.
And when a story of my own whispers its need to be told, I repair to the upper floors of the Gothic mansion in my head, pull some levers on the fiction engine and wait for lightning to strike so that I may animate another misshapen monster from my lunatic literary laboratory.
Website: http://fictionengine.blogspot.com
Larry Parrigin (LarryJP)
It all started years ago on the dusty plains of West Texas. My first exposure to the world of Sci-Fi was the far-out universe of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson set in the impossible future of 1999. From that first Eagle crash, I was hooked. “The Devil in the Dark” was my first Trek, followed closely by Logan’s Run. The movie, not the series. Heck, I watched the series, too. By the time “Star Wars” hit, I was a seasoned fan, and George Lucas’ zeitgeist swallowed me whole…hook, line, and sinker. “Warrior’s Gate” was my first brush with Who. Yes, I own a Tom Baker scarf. But who can say (or WANT to say) they own a Colin Baker jacket?
I do technical writing to pay the bills. I live in a world of commercial aviation and federal regulations by day. By night, I write for me. Cartooning is my passion, and “Gaily Forward” is my baby.
It’s all a rich tapestry. We claim aliens, robots, telepaths, teleporters, speedsters, and web-slingers. On the fringes are elves, wizards, zombies, and ghosts. It’s a magic thing, this Sci-Fi realm. And I’m proud to be one of its geeks.
Website: http://gailyforwardtoons.blogspot.com
Nikki Douglas (mrs. kirk)
Hello, I am Nikki Douglas, aka mrs. kirk, a sci-fi geek who is unabashedly out of the closet! I have several websites, one where I make a living as a witch (for real!) at www.magickrituals.com and the other my gaming site for women at www.grrlgamer.com. You can also read about my magickal life at www.amitadragonspell.com.
I dig Star Trek (TOS), Star Wars and Philip K. Dick and plan on writing about those topics and many more.
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