Aaron Douglas is a Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as Galen Tyrol on the Sci Fi Channel's television program Battlestar Galactica.
He will headline the upcoming CTV drama The Bridge, which has also been picked up by CBS for broadcast in the United States. Douglas will play Frank Leo, a charismatic police union leader who is simultaneously battling criminals on the street while facing down corruption within the ranks of his own department. CBS ordered thirteen episodes, and production started in May 2009.
Aprilynne Pike has been spinning faerie stories since she was a child with a hyper-active imagin
ation. At the age of twenty she received her BA in Creative Writing from Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho. When not writing, Aprilynne can usually be found at the gym; she also enjoys singing, acting, reading, and working with pregnant moms as a childbirth educator and doula. Aprilynne recently returned to Arizona with her husband and three kids; she is enjoying the sunshine.
Aprilynne is the number one New York Times Bestselling author of Wings and it's sequel Spells about a seemingly ordinary girl with a not-so-ordinary destiny. In this tale of magic and intrigue, romance and danger, everything you thought you knew about faeries will be changed forever...
The Klute (known to the government as Bernard J. Schober) is a southern Arizona slam poet who combines pop-culture saturation with punk rock sensibility to try to make you laugh, get angry, and think (not necessarily in that order).
He's been a member of 4 National Poetry Slam teams from Mesa, AZ (2002-2003, 2005-2006) and traveled the United States and Canada for his "One Foot in the Grave" spoken word tour. Prior published works include 2002's "Escape Velocity" (mercifully out of print), and 2005's "Look at What America Has Done to Me" (on its 9th printing – it's just that good!).
He's performed for the president of the American Communist Party and has broken bread with Republican lawmakers. He believes in God, the 1st Amendment, and the Bermuda Triangle, and once performed a poem outside the White House gates under the watchful eyes of Secret Service snipers.
Slim Smith, former East Valley Tribune columnist: "[The Klute] showed a creativity that was hard to resist."
AZSlim, www.espressopundit.com: "Don't argue with The Klute. His hyperventilating and pure hypocrisy shown in these (and many other) posts makes reasoning with a two-year old who didn't get the popsicle he wanted seem tame by comparison."
Phoenix 944 Magazine says: "If anyone's seen 'The Klute' in action, they'd know it. If they haven't, they must."
Jerome duBois, The Tears of Things: "You have one of the blackest hearts I've ever had the misfortune to glimpse."
Brian Brown is one of the co-hosts of Slice of SciFi bringing his thoughts, ideas, options and love for all things SciFi and Fantasy to the show. He is a uniquely talented host with a sharp wit and a good ear for voice impersonation, which serves him and us well for this type of medium.
Brian comes to Slice of SciFi from Dragon Page: Cover to Cover where he started as a book reviewer. He was quickly brought on as one of the co-hosts. He is an avid reader, movie watcher and comic book collector in the sparse spare time he has. In those not so free moments he is also co-hosting on Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas and Buffy Between The Lines. He is also working on other side voice projects and hopes someday to be as famous as Don LaFontaine.
Named one of the world's "50 Sexiest Women" by "Femme Fatales Magazine," Chase Masterson first became known for her break-out role as Leeta in the final five seasons of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine." Known to millions of fans worldwide, TV Guide's online readers poll voted Chase the "Favorite Science Fiction Actress on Television," "Sci-Fi Universe Magazine" honored her as one of the "Top 20 People to Watch in Hollywood," and in 2009 AOL named her one of the "Ten Sexiest Aliens" in television history. Chase has held recurring roles on "General Hospital" and "Live Shot"; guest starred on programs such as "E.R.," "Presidio Med," "Sliders," and "Acapulco H.E.A.T."; and served as host of "Sci-Fi Entertainment," "Showtime: Nighttime," and Encore's STARZ On Demand. Her film credits include "Yesterday Was a Lie," "Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles," Stephen King's "Sometimes They Come Back For More," "Robin Hood: Men In Tights," "In a Moment of Passion," "Married People Single Sex," "Sammyville," "Manticore," "Chastity," "Terminal Invasion," "Creature Unknown," and "Comic Book: The Movie." Chase's recent producing credits include the documentary "Through Your Eyes" with Michael Madsen and David Carradine (featured twice on Dr. Phil), and the short "L.A. Actors" with Tony Shalhoub and Brandon Routh. An accomplished jazz singer, she has received high praise for her music from magazines such as "Film Score Monthly" and "Entertainment Today." Chase hosted her own weekly internet radio show on TheFandom.com, and has been singing in USO Tours for the Navy and the Marine Corps. She was selected as one of the "Hot Leading Ladies" of film by Film Fetish for her role in "Yesterday Was a Lie," and was named "Best Feature Film Producer" last year by the LA Femme Film Festival.
Dr. David A. Williams is currently serving as a Faculty Research Associate in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University. He served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at ASU in 2001-2002, in which he co-taught Physical Geology and a graduate seminar in Planetary Volcanology. David is currently performing research in volcanology and planetary geology, with a focus on planetary mapping, geochemical, and remote sensing studies. His research has included computer modeling of seismic wave propagation through planetary interiors, visible and near-infrared spectroscopy of the lunar surface, planetary geologic mapping of the satellites of Jupiter and the planet Mars, computer modeling of the physical and geochemical evolution of lava flows in a variety of planetary environments, and petrologic study of lava samples from Mount St Helens. He was involved with NASA's Magellan Mission to Venus and Galileo Mission to Jupiter, and he is currently serving as an Associate US Investigator on the European Space Agency's Mars Express mission. David is currently the First Vice Chair of the Planetary Geology Division of the Geological Society of America, has served on several NASA committees including the 2007 Jovian System Observer Science Definition Team, and is currently a steering committee member of the NASA Outer Planets Advisory Group.
Diana Gabaldon is the author of the award-winning, NYT-bestselling Outlander novels, described by Salon magazine as "the smartest historical sci-fi adventure-romance story ever written by a science Ph.D. with a background in scripting "Scrooge McDuck" comics," and the Lord John Grey novels, which are only slightly more describable. Dr. Gabaldon holds several advanced degrees in science, (plus an honorary degree as Doctor of Humane Letters (though no one has yet explained to her just what a humane letter is) and spent a dozen years as a university professor with an expertise in scientific computation before beginning to write fiction. None of this has anything to do with her novels, but there you are. She has also written a graphic novel based on her Outlander series, The Exile: An Outlander Graphic Novel, with art by Hoang Nguyen, which will be released this fall.
Gary Lockwood is an American actor perhaps best known for his iconic 1968 role as the astronaut Dr. Frank Poole in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Gary Lockwood also appeared in the second pilot episode for the original TV Star Trek series, "Where No Man Has Gone Before." It was produced in 1965 after the first pilot, "The Cage", had been rejected by NBC. The episode was eventually broadcast third in sequence on September 22, 1966, and was re-aired on April 20, 1967.
He is father of the actress Samantha Lockwood. Both currently live in Los Angeles.
Jack Mangan is an author, podcaster, musician, father, etc., born in New Jersey, but now residing in Arizona. His Jack Mangan's Deadpan Podcast features over 100 episodes of interviews, commentary, comedy skits, original music, and a great deal of community-contributed content. Jack's Spherical Tomi was among the first wave of podcast novels, and was the first number one title at Podiobooks.com. Jack has made countless guest appearances and performances on other podcast shows, and has had his work independently converted to audio format by a number of other New Media creators. His fiction and non-fiction writings have appeared in numerous online, print, and podcast venues, including such prestigious outlets as Interzone Magazine, Variant Frequencies, Amityville House of Pancakes, the Beam Me Up Podcast and terrestrial radio show, and Tales of the Talisman. He seeks to shake up perceptions and provoke independent thinking, through music, comedy, writing, and his outspoken, sometimes controversial views.
Jaime Paglia is the co-creator and Executive Producer of the Syfy Channel record-setting series, Eureka, which is currently in production on its fourth season of 20 episodes. Having started in feature films, Paglia sold his first spec script, Bombshell, (written with David Draffin) to Team Todd at New Line Cinema, followed by Kringle (written with Andrew Cosby), which sold to Oscar-winning screenwriter/producer Akiva Goldsman and producer Mark Canton. Paglia went on to co-create Eureka with Cosby for the Syfy Channel and NBC Universal Television Studios, and adapted the feature film Damn Nation for MTV Films and Paramount Pictures.
James Kerwin's recent feature film, "Yesterday Was a Lie," screened at Phoenix Comicon in 2009 before being picked up by E1 Entertainment and given a commercial release last December, followed by DVD release this April. His directing style has been honored by critic Paul Birchall for two consecutive years in Back Stage Magazine's "Best of the Year" list. In addition to a dozen festival jury and audience prizes for "Yesterday Was a Lie," Kerwin was named "Best Director" and "Best Screenwriter" last year by New York Visionfest. He has served as a production/cinematography instructor at T.C.U. and a guest artist at U.T. Austin, and has spoken on filmmaking in venues as diverse as San Diego Comic-Con, Space Camp, and the University of Arizona's Center for Consciousness Studies. Kerwin's directorial work has been analyzed by scholarly organizations and journals such as the Shakespeare Association of America and "Shakespeare Newsletter," and is studied in several universities' curricula. His live stage credits include critically acclaimed adaptations of the rare Shakespeare piece "Venus and Adonis"; an adaptation of "The Second Maiden's Tragedy" controversially performed as Shakespeare's "Cardenio," for which he was named one of the "Los Angeles Times" Faces to Watch; the world premiere of Amber Benson's "Albert Hall;" and David Ives' "Seven Menus" and "Mere Mortals" for Noah Wyle and Daniel Henning's Blank Theatre Company.
John Scalzi is an author and online writer, best known for his Hugo Award-nominated science fiction novel Old Man's War, released by Tor Books in January 2005, and for his blog Whatever, at which he has written daily on a number of topics since 1998. He has also written a number of non-fiction books.
Scalzi's first published novel was Old Man's War, in which 75-year-old citizens of Earth are recruited to join the defense forces of human colonies in space. Scalzi noted the book's similarities to Robert A. Heinlein's Starship Troopers by thanking Heinlein in the acknowledgments of the book. Old Man's War came to publication after debuting online: Scalzi serialized the book on his web site in December 2002, which resulted in an offer for the book by Tor Books Senior Editor Patrick Nielsen Hayden. The hardcover edition of the book was published in January, 2005.
Old Man's War was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in March 2006.
Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Jonathan was an undergraduate at Penn State and continued his education at Harvard, spending several seasons with the Loeb Drama Center. He then spent five years in New York, appearing on and off Broadway in several regional theater productions.
Prior to his role as Riker, Jonathan had recurring roles in such shows as Falcon Crest, Paper Dolls and Bare Essence, and for years was a contract player on the daytime drama The Doctors. His other television work includes the television movie "The Nutcracker" and the critically praised roles in the miniseries "Dream West" and "North & South" (Parts I and II).
In 1987, Jonathan appeared on Star Trek: The Next Generation as Commander William T. Riker. During the third season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Jonathan made his directorial debut with an episode of the series entitled "The Offspring." He so impressed the executive producers with his efforts that he directed a number of episodes in the remaining four seasons as well as episodes of Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Jonathan then had the double duty of acting and directing in his feature film directorial debut in Star Trek: First Contact. Jonathan repeated this effort to much success in Star Trek: Insurrection.
Frakes served as executive producer/director on the TV series Roswell. More recently Jonathan has directed episodes of the TV shows, Leverage, The Librarian and the new Sci Fi show Persons Unknown.
Jonathan is married to actress Genie Francis and resides in Los Angeles.
Keir Dullea is an American actor best known for the character of astronaut David Bowman he portrayed in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey and in 1984's 2010: The Year We Make Contact, as well as his role in the cult film Bunny Lake is Missing.
Kevin is the science advisor for the Syfy series Eureka and Battlestar Galactica. Grazier works at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. He also performs research in planetary dynamics and computational methods with collaborators at UCLA, Los Alamos National Laboratory and other scientific institutions.
Kris Neri writes an urban fantasy series featuring fake psychic, Samantha Brennan, and genuine Celtic goddess/FBI agent, Annabelle Haggerty. The first book in the series, High Crimes on the Magical Plane, was a Lefty Award nominee. She also writes the Agatha, Anthony, Macavity Award-nominated Tracy Eaton mysteries, Revenge of the Gypsy Queen, Dem Bones' Revenge and Revenge for Old Times' Sake. Kris has published some sixty short stories and is a two-time Derringer Award winner and a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee for her short fiction. She teaches writing online for the Writers' Program of the UCLA Extension School, and, with her husband, owns The Well Red Coyote bookstore in Sedona, Arizona.
LeVar Burton transcends the typical generation gap when it comes to his fan base. His breakout role as Kunta Kinte in Roots in 1977 earned him an Emmy nomination as well as recognition from the diverse audience who had been captured by the epic cultural tale. Other roles in television and film after the success of Roots kept him busy until he began hosting the PBS classic Reading Rainbow, which sadly ended in 2009. Encouraging children to read and exercise their imaginations gathered a completely different group of fans, many of whom would later grow up and recognize him asGeordi La Forge in Star Trek: The Next Generation and the subsequent franchise movies involving that group of characters. Besides numerous other roles in television and film, he voiced the character of Kwame in the children’s cartoon Captain Planetand the Planeteers which was a forerunner of its time in encouraging children to be aware of the environment and showed its viewers small things they could do to reduce pollution and waste.
But Burton’s work extends far beyond acting in television and film. He has directed episodes for each of the Star Trek television series since (and including) The Next Generation as well as other television shows and films. Burton is also the host and executive producer of a documentary entitled The Science of Peace, that investigates the science and technology aimed at enabling world peace, sometimes called peace science.
Michael R. Mennenga (MEN-en-gay) was born in Nebraska, and grew up on a small farm outside of Holdrege. He began writing in late 1986 but it took a couple of years for Michael to develop his style. He began working on his first book in 1988 and spent the next six years submitting manuscripts, talking with publishers and agents, learning the ins and outs of this changing industry. Even though he remained unpublished, he had become a proficient writer and by the end of 1995 he had written 2 young adult books, 1 novel, and had 9 others in various stages of production. In late 1995 he also turned his attention to the Internet.
Paul Davies is a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, astrobiologist and best-selling author. His research ranges from the origin of the universe to the origin of life, and includes the properties of black holes, the nature of time and quantum field theory. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 1995 Templeton Prize, and the 2002 Michael Faraday Prize from the Royal Society. He is the director of the ASU Beyond Center and just published his latest book, The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence.
Sam Sykes is the author of Tome of the Undergates, a vast and sprawling story of adventure, demons, madness and carnage. Suspected by many to be at least tangentially related to most causes of human suffering, Sam Sykes is also a force to be reckoned with beyond literature. At 25, Sykes is one of the younger authors to have arrived on the stage of literary fantasy. Tome of the Undergates will be his first book, published in the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Holland and Canada. He currently resides in the United States and is probably watching you read this right now.
Seth is the Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute, in Mountain View, California. He has an undergraduate degree in physics from Princeton University, and a doctorate in astronomy from the California Institute of Technology. For much of his career, Seth conducted radio astronomy research on galaxies, and has published approximately fifty papers in professional journals. He also founded and ran a company producing computer animation for TV.
Seth has written several hundred popular magazine and Web articles on various topics in astronomy, technology, film and television. He has edited and contributed to a half dozen books. His first popular tome, “Sharing the Universe: Perspectives on Extraterrestrial Life” appeared in 1998. He has also authored “Life in the Universe” (2006, 2nd edition, textbook, with Jeff Bennett) and “Cosmic Company” (2003, with Alex Barnett). His most recent book is “Confessions of an Alien Hunter” (2009).
Seth is the host of the SETI Institute’s weekly science radio show Are We Alone?, which reaches listeners both on the air and via internet podcast.
Summer Brooks is a co-host and the executive producer of the Slice of SciFi podcast, putting her SF media geek skills to good use in producing and booking all guest appearances for the show. She also co-hosts The Babylon Podcast and Dragon Page: Cover to Cover. She is an avid reader and writer of scifi and fantasy with a few publishing credits to her name, and she desires to write and produce a TV series or miniseries that leaves a mark on people. She had spent many years as a computer specialist for Unix servers for various large corporations, and competing in amateur full contact kickboxing. These days, she maintains many of the FarPoint Media websites, and coordinates guest interviews for a number of FarPoint Media shows.
Warren Davis's TV and film credits include "Yesterday Was a Lie," "LAX," "E.R.," "General Hospital," "The Innocents Mission," and "The Practice." For several years he served as artistic producer of the "Living Room Series" at Noah Wyle and Daniel Henning's Blank Theatre Company in Hollywood. A former game programmer, Davis is renowned for creating such arcade classics as Q*bert, Terminator 2, and Us vs. Them, and has also worked for George Lucas's Industrial Light and Magic.
Wil Wheaton's successful acting career began in 1986 with acclaimed roles in Stand By Me and Toy Soldiers. He continued to build his resume through his teen years as series regular ‘Wesley Crusher’ on Star Trek: The Next Generation and opposite Robin Williams in Flubber. But Wil is much more than just an actor; he’s an author, blogger, voice actor, Columnist for the LA Weekly and Suicide Girls, widely-followed Twitter user, and a champion of geek culture.
Wil currently splits his time between acting and writing. He has recently appeared as serial killer Floyd Hansen on Criminal Minds, comic book publisher Miles Sklar on NUMB3RS, and as the voice of Ted Kord, the Silver Age Blue Beetle, on Batman: The Brave and the Bold. He's published three acclaimed books: Just A Geek, Dancing Barefoot, and The Happiest Days of Our Lives. His latest books are Sunken Treasure and Memories of the Future, Volume One. All of his books grew out of Wil’s immensely popular, award-winning weblog, which he created at WIL WHEATON dot NET and currently maintains at WIL WHEATON dot NET: in Exile. While most celebrities are happy to let publicists design and maintain their websites, Wil took a decidedly different turn when he started blogging in 2001. He designed, coded, and maintained WWdN entirely on his own, until he "blew up" his sites' database in 2005 and moved his blog to the TypePad service. In 2003, Forbes.com readers voted WWdN the “Best Celebrity Weblog.” Wil's blog was chosen by C|Net for inclusion in their 100 most influential blogs, and is an "A" lister, according to Blogebrity.com. In the 2002 weblog awards (the bloggies) Wil won every category in which he was nominated, including “Weblog of the year.” In 2007, Wil was nominated for a Lifetime Achievement Bloggie, alongside Internet powerhouses Slashdot and Fark. In the 2008 weblog awards, Wil was voted the "Best Celebrity Blogger," and in 2009 Forbes named him the 14th most influential web celebrity. This is all amusing to Wil, who doesn't think of himself as a celebrity, but is instead, "just this guy, you know?" (Bio courtesy of Wil Wheaton.)
Aprilynne Pike has been spinning faerie stories since she was a child with a hyper-active imagin
ation. At the age of twenty she received her BA in Creative Writing from Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho. When not writing, Aprilynne can usually be found at the gym; she also enjoys singing, acting, reading, and working with pregnant moms as a childbirth educator and doula. Aprilynne recently returned to Arizona with her husband and three kids; she is enjoying the sunshine.
The Klute (known to the government as Bernard J. Schober) is a southern Arizona slam poet who combines pop-culture saturation with punk rock sensibility to try to make you laugh, get angry, and think (not necessarily in that order).
Named one of the world's "50 Sexiest Women" by "Femme Fatales Magazine," Chase Masterson first became known for her break-out role as Leeta in the final five seasons of "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine." Known to millions of fans worldwide, TV Guide's online readers poll voted Chase the "Favorite Science Fiction Actress on Television," "Sci-Fi Universe Magazine" honored her as one of the "Top 20 People to Watch in Hollywood," and in 2009 AOL named her one of the "Ten Sexiest Aliens" in television history. Chase has held recurring roles on "General Hospital" and "Live Shot"; guest starred on programs such as "E.R.," "Presidio Med," "Sliders," and "Acapulco H.E.A.T."; and served as host of "Sci-Fi Entertainment," "Showtime: Nighttime," and Encore's STARZ On Demand. Her film credits include "Yesterday Was a Lie," "Robotech: The Shadow Chronicles," Stephen King's "Sometimes They Come Back For More," "Robin Hood: Men In Tights," "In a Moment of Passion," "Married People Single Sex," "Sammyville," "Manticore," "Chastity," "Terminal Invasion," "Creature Unknown," and "Comic Book: The Movie." Chase's recent producing credits include the documentary "Through Your Eyes" with Michael Madsen and David Carradine (featured twice on Dr. Phil), and the short "L.A. Actors" with Tony Shalhoub and Brandon Routh. An accomplished jazz singer, she has received high praise for her music from magazines such as "Film Score Monthly" and "Entertainment Today." Chase hosted her own weekly internet radio show on TheFandom.com, and has been singing in USO Tours for the Navy and the Marine Corps. She was selected as one of the "Hot Leading Ladies" of film by Film Fetish for her role in "Yesterday Was a Lie," and was named "Best Feature Film Producer" last year by the LA Femme Film Festival.
Dr. David A. Williams is currently serving as a Faculty Research Associate in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University. He served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at ASU in 2001-2002, in which he co-taught Physical Geology and a graduate seminar in Planetary Volcanology. David is currently performing research in volcanology and planetary geology, with a focus on planetary mapping, geochemical, and remote sensing studies. His research has included computer modeling of seismic wave propagation through planetary interiors, visible and near-infrared spectroscopy of the lunar surface, planetary geologic mapping of the satellites of Jupiter and the planet Mars, computer modeling of the physical and geochemical evolution of lava flows in a variety of planetary environments, and petrologic study of lava samples from Mount St Helens. He was involved with NASA's Magellan Mission to Venus and Galileo Mission to Jupiter, and he is currently serving as an Associate US Investigator on the European Space Agency's Mars Express mission. David is currently the First Vice Chair of the Planetary Geology Division of the Geological Society of America, has served on several NASA committees including the 2007 Jovian System Observer Science Definition Team, and is currently a steering committee member of the NASA Outer Planets Advisory Group.
Diana Gabaldon is the author of the award-winning, NYT-bestselling Outlander novels, described by Salon magazine as "the smartest historical sci-fi adventure-romance story ever written by a science Ph.D. with a background in scripting "Scrooge McDuck" comics," and the Lord John Grey novels, which are only slightly more describable. Dr. Gabaldon holds several advanced degrees in science, (plus an honorary degree as Doctor of Humane Letters (though no one has yet explained to her just what a humane letter is) and spent a dozen years as a university professor with an expertise in scientific computation before beginning to write fiction. None of this has anything to do with her novels, but there you are. She has also written a graphic novel based on her Outlander series, The Exile: An Outlander Graphic Novel, with art by Hoang Nguyen, which will be released this fall.
Gary Lockwood is an American actor perhaps best known for his iconic 1968 role as the astronaut Dr. Frank Poole in 2001: A Space Odyssey. 
Jaime Paglia is the co-creator and Executive Producer of the Syfy Channel record-setting series, Eureka, which is currently in production on its fourth season of 20 episodes. Having started in feature films, Paglia sold his first spec script, Bombshell, (written with David Draffin) to Team Todd at New Line Cinema, followed by Kringle (written with Andrew Cosby), which sold to Oscar-winning screenwriter/producer Akiva Goldsman and producer Mark Canton. Paglia went on to co-create Eureka with Cosby for the Syfy Channel and NBC Universal Television Studios, and adapted the feature film Damn Nation for MTV Films and Paramount Pictures.
James Kerwin's recent feature film, "Yesterday Was a Lie," screened at Phoenix Comicon in 2009 before being picked up by E1 Entertainment and given a commercial release last December, followed by DVD release this April. His directing style has been honored by critic Paul Birchall for two consecutive years in Back Stage Magazine's "Best of the Year" list. In addition to a dozen festival jury and audience prizes for "Yesterday Was a Lie," Kerwin was named "Best Director" and "Best Screenwriter" last year by New York Visionfest. He has served as a production/cinematography instructor at T.C.U. and a guest artist at U.T. Austin, and has spoken on filmmaking in venues as diverse as San Diego Comic-Con, Space Camp, and the University of Arizona's Center for Consciousness Studies. Kerwin's directorial work has been analyzed by scholarly organizations and journals such as the Shakespeare Association of America and "Shakespeare Newsletter," and is studied in several universities' curricula. His live stage credits include critically acclaimed adaptations of the rare Shakespeare piece "Venus and Adonis"; an adaptation of "The Second Maiden's Tragedy" controversially performed as Shakespeare's "Cardenio," for which he was named one of the "Los Angeles Times" Faces to Watch; the world premiere of Amber Benson's "Albert Hall;" and David Ives' "Seven Menus" and "Mere Mortals" for Noah Wyle and Daniel Henning's Blank Theatre Company.
John Scalzi is an author and online writer, best known for his Hugo Award-nominated science fiction novel Old Man's War, released by Tor Books in January 2005, and for his blog Whatever, at which he has written daily on a number of topics since 1998. He has also written a number of non-fiction books.
Born and raised in Pennsylvania, Jonathan was an undergraduate at Penn State and continued his education at Harvard, spending several seasons with the Loeb Drama Center. He then spent five years in New York, appearing on and off Broadway in several regional theater productions.
Keir Dullea is an American actor best known for the character of astronaut David Bowman he portrayed in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey and in 1984's 2010: The Year We Make Contact, as well as his role in the cult film Bunny Lake is Missing.
Kevin is the science advisor for the Syfy series Eureka and Battlestar Galactica. Grazier works at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. He also performs research in planetary dynamics and computational methods with collaborators at UCLA, Los Alamos National Laboratory and other scientific institutions.
Kris Neri writes an urban fantasy series featuring fake psychic, Samantha Brennan, and genuine Celtic goddess/FBI agent, Annabelle Haggerty. The first book in the series, High Crimes on the Magical Plane, was a Lefty Award nominee. She also writes the Agatha, Anthony, Macavity Award-nominated Tracy Eaton mysteries, Revenge of the Gypsy Queen, Dem Bones' Revenge and Revenge for Old Times' Sake. Kris has published some sixty short stories and is a two-time Derringer Award winner and a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee for her short fiction. She teaches writing online for the Writers' Program of the UCLA Extension School, and, with her husband, owns The Well Red Coyote bookstore in Sedona, Arizona.
Michael R. Mennenga (MEN-en-gay) was born in Nebraska, and grew up on a small farm outside of Holdrege. He began writing in late 1986 but it took a couple of years for Michael to develop his style. He began working on his first book in 1988 and spent the next six years submitting manuscripts, talking with publishers and agents, learning the ins and outs of this changing industry. Even though he remained unpublished, he had become a proficient writer and by the end of 1995 he had written 2 young adult books, 1 novel, and had 9 others in various stages of production. In late 1995 he also turned his attention to the Internet.
Paul Davies is a theoretical physicist, cosmologist, astrobiologist and best-selling author. His research ranges from the origin of the universe to the origin of life, and includes the properties of black holes, the nature of time and quantum field theory. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 1995 Templeton Prize, and the 2002 Michael Faraday Prize from the Royal Society. He is the director of the ASU Beyond Center and just published his latest book, The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search for Alien Intelligence.
Seth is the Senior Astronomer at the SETI Institute, in Mountain View, California. He has an undergraduate degree in physics from Princeton University, and a doctorate in astronomy from the California Institute of Technology. For much of his career, Seth conducted radio astronomy research on galaxies, and has published approximately fifty papers in professional journals. He also founded and ran a company producing computer animation for TV.
Warren Davis's TV and film credits include "Yesterday Was a Lie," "LAX," "E.R.," "General Hospital," "The Innocents Mission," and "The Practice." For several years he served as artistic producer of the "Living Room Series" at Noah Wyle and Daniel Henning's Blank Theatre Company in Hollywood. A former game programmer, Davis is renowned for creating such arcade classics as Q*bert, Terminator 2, and Us vs. Them, and has also worked for George Lucas's Industrial Light and Magic.
Wil Wheaton's successful acting career began in 1986 with acclaimed roles in Stand By Me and Toy Soldiers. He continued to build his resume through his teen years as series regular ‘Wesley Crusher’ on Star Trek: The Next Generation and opposite Robin Williams in Flubber. But Wil is much more than just an actor; he’s an author, blogger, voice actor, Columnist for the LA Weekly and Suicide Girls, widely-followed Twitter user, and a champion of geek culture.
