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By Shana Galen I’ll be the first to admit I loved the Star Wars films. I wrote a whole book as Shane Bolks with a Star Wars premise. It’s The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Men I’veDated — check it out. I also like Star Trek and read a half dozen or so Robert Jordan books, but that’s about as far as my love of all things sci-fi and fantasy go. If this is heresy to you, feel free to skip to the comments now and tell me so. My friend Any had no compunctions about telling me how undeserving I was when I told her I was on three panels at Comicpalooza in Houston and got a 3-day pass as a result. She immediately asked me to take pictures of anyone I saw from Firefly . I told her this would be difficult as I’d never seen it. She later texted that I should take photos of actors from BG. I texted back, What’s BG? Her response: Sigh. Battlestar Galactica. So unworthy! Yes, I was unworthy. I know something about writing, which made me useful to the participants interested in t...

by Tamara Hogan “Before you say something is out of this world, first make sure it is not in this world.” — Michael Shermer I’ve always been fascinated by science fiction and alternate history stories: Frank Herbert’s “Dune” series. The classic Star Trek TV series and its many TV and movie spin-offs. The Star Wars franchise. And, of course, “The X-Files.” While the first three works operate from a baseline assumption that humanity is not alone in the universe, "The X-Files" did not.   As someone who works in technology, I naturally relate to Dana Scully, the rational, skeptical scientist who needs to see hard data before she believes anything - but Fox Mulder’s pain, dreams and yearnings definitely strike a chord. What if? Given this fascination, is it any surprise that when I (finally) wrote a novel, the majority of the characters would be… of extra-planetary origin? Aliens, if you really want to get technical about ...

I'm in the middle of my blog tour for Wild Blue Under and this time I had a better idea of what to expect since it's my second book. So when I was writing the blogs, I tried to tie the story or my inspiration or my characters into something that would resonate with people, other than just telling them about the story. Know what my biggest hits have been so far? The posts about the inspiration for the series, which is, basically, the television shows I grew up watching. I even did a "guess that leading man" thing on Wickedly Romantic yesterday. So I won't reiterate it here, but it got me to thinking: television had a big influence on my writing, but so did the movies. JAWS is a given because there's that whole terrified-of-the-ocean thing I gave Erica in In Over Her Head , and Failure to Launch because Matthew McConaughey's character (and fabulous gorgeous-ness) lent itself to Reel, and I loved It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World which contributed to th...