Julio R. Aldana was born and raised in New York, NY. His love of sci-fi and speculative fiction was sparked in him as a kid with syndications of Star Trek, The Twilight Zone and lots and lots of comics. As time went by Julio further cultivated his palette with Asimov, Lloyd Alexander, Poe, Gaiman, Tolkien and many others.

In 2005, Julio discovered podcasts and quickly fell in love with Slice of Sci-Fi. After listening to numerous podcasts over the years, he decided he would like to contribute to the podisphere and joined the staff at Slice ofSciFi as one of its reporters.