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 Dragonpage: 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 Wingin’It 3D. He is also working on other side voice projects and hopes someday to be as famous as Don LaFontaine.

Summer Brooks is one the show’s co-hosts and the Slice of SciFi Guest Booking director, putting her SF media geek skills to good use in producing and booking all guest appearances for the show.

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.

Brooks spent many years as a computer specialist for Unix servers for various large corporations, and competing in amateur full contact kickboxing. These days, she’s a licensed massage therapist with her own private practice.

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 Even though he remained unpublished, he had become a proficient writer and by the end of 1995 he had written 2 young adult books, 1 novel, and had 9 others in various stages of production.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.

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Joe Murphy was born and raised in Peoria, Illinois. He was practically weaned on science fiction, watching reruns of the original Star Trek and Lost in Space with his mother.

After high school, Joe went to college and jumped around from studying computer science, to education for the hearing impaired, to finally landing on a Bachelor’s degree in Speech Pathology and Audiology at Illinois State University. Three years later, he earned with his Master’s in Audiology from Western Illinois University. Since then he has worked as an audiologist in Centralia, Illinois.

Science fiction and (especially) fantasy have always been a part of Joe’s life, whether in movies, TV, or books. After writing a review of Lisa Lee’s and Tee Morris’s Morevi on the Dragonpage’s forum, the Dragonpage made Joe the “official” book reviewer for The Dragon Page Radio Talk Show.

Joe passed away on April 1, 2007. He fought the good fight against leiomyosarcoma, but it eventually took him from us. He was our friend and colleague and we loved him very much. Joe will be greatly missed in our lives. We bid farewell to a dear and sweet man.

From time to time Cynthia, an avid reader, and as a very small girl was “weaned” on The Space Child’s Mother Goose, provides us with very interesting editorials from her unique point of view.

She earned her first library card at the age of four, and officially began reading SF&F with Schmitz’s Telzey stories in Analog to find out whom her big sister was named after. A NASA Fellow and former Asian cinema Programming Director for a local Twin Cities non-profit, she has volunteered in educational demos in the S.C.A. and in neighborhood community gardens. A longtime sewer, she enjoys pattern design and historical recreation, and is an original member of the Minnesota Costume Guild.

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Michael Lohr is a professional journalist, outdoorsman, poet, whiskey connoisseur, music critic, treasure hunter and adventurer. His writing has appeared in such diverse magazines as Rolling Stone, Esquire, The Economist, Southern Living, Sporting News and Men’s Journal, to name a few.

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Paul Puri is a repressed, self centered individual who forced himself to retire from the recording studio business because there was no money in it. He decided to recently get into podcasting, because he feels he could retire from it much faster.

So still broke and full of himself, he tries to make his mark in this world by donating his time to help the weak, the oppressed, the pathetic people he would normally step on in order to claw his way up to middle management.

His struggle with duality can only culminate in one goal. To become a barista at his local Starbucks coffee franchise, and the way things are going, next year might be the one that makes it stick.

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The team here at Slice of SciFi were developing a new trivia segment for the weekly podcast and although we had over 400 audio clips to feature, none of the executive staff at Farpoint Media had the time necessary to give the segment the kick it needed to be a successful part of the program.

To the rescue came our good friend Doug Kress and in his capable hands “Slice of Trivia” has become a real favorite of our listeners, and to all of us on the staff as well.

Jay Hinkelman comes to us via The Dragon Page and Wingin’ It and is our resident Doctor Who guru.

If it’s about the good Doctor, Jay is our man in the know.

Mur was born and raised in the south, but it’s not her fault. She is a writer of essays. magazine articles and role-playing-games. Someday she may actually publish some fiction. She’s been podcasting her essays since December, 2004. Most of her time is spent at home taking care of her toddler and playing games. She really likes talking in third person, it makes her feel important.

Sam began writing radio script in 1988 and hosted his own talk-teaching radio broadcast while in Pennsylvania between 1995 to 1998. He has been a Nuclear Medicine/Molecular Imaging medical professional since 1976, and has been practicing medicine for over 35 years. Sam currently works at one of the top 10 cardiovascular hospitals in the United States.

Sam has spent the last 38 years writing spiritual self-help messages and articles and is a retired Messianic Rabbi.

After a little over two years with Slice of SciFi, Sam was appointed as Farpoint Media’s executive news director and remains Slice of SciFi’s weekly show content producer.

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Nina is a civil engineer and software developer from Bavaria Germany.

Aside from hacking in codes, she spends her workdays designing and specifying software applications.
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Michael Hickerson first discovered sci-fi on a UHF station’s Friday night Sci-Fi theater and has been hooked ever since. He grew up on Star Wars, Buck Rodgers and the original Battlestar Galactica, before finding the two great sci-fi loves of his life, Star Trek and Doctor Who. Michael is an avid reader, not just of sci-fi and fantasy but all genres. In his spare time, Michael blogs, co-hosts the weekly “TV Round-Up” podcast and spoils his niece and nephew.

Michael is a graduate of the University of Tennessee with a degree in journalism. He’s had a wide and varied career that has included stops as a sports writer/editor, tech supporting, running a software distribution company and delivering live scores and data. He currently works for the governor’s communications office for the state of Tennessee.

After working as a journalist for Slice of SciFi for a year, Michael was promoted to Assistant News Editor.

Contact information: hickerson@sliceofscifi.com

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Linda is from the Northeastern part of the United States and is a systems engineer, working with Microsoft Windows operating systems and networks.

She has always had a passion for science fiction from the time she was a child. Very analytical about genre related movies and television shows, however, she also finds time to enjoy basketball and watching non-scifi flicks.

Linda has her BA in Media Arts and is making plans to return to college for her Masters degree.

Contact information: linda@sliceofscifi.com

Slice of SciFi currently has a position open for a staff journalist. If you are interested please contact Sam Sloan, our news director at the email address provided on this website.

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.

Emilio’s interests are as eclectic as they are numerous. Racquetball, photography, reading, shooting, traveling, eating, and writing are activities Emilio enjoys, all the while stressing his lack of expertise in any particular one. His first SciFi exposure came in 1983, at the age of thirty, when a friend loaned Emilio the book I, Robot, by Isaac Asimov. That started a streak of nothing but Science Fiction reading that remains unbroken to this day.

A refugee of the auto industry, Emilio now lives in sunny Colorado. Currently making little use of his engineering degree, he often wonders what might have been had he listened to the English professor who, in 1976, strongly suggested Emilio switch his major from Engineering to English. Showing a remarkable lack of foresight, Emilio opted to continue on the path to becoming a pretty good, but uninspired, Mechanical Engineer. But for that one decision, he could today be a little known journalist, working for no money, and struggling to get some recognition.