Katie Hager
DENNIS: Oh, but you can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you.
– Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
SUMMARY
Geek Speak Status: Contributing Writer
Nationality: American
Preferred Nationality: Narnian
Known Alias(es): I have expunged all my aliases from the historical record.
Michael Bay is… living in my bathroom making a dress out of my toilet paper.
GENRE CREDENTIALS
Gateway Fandom: The Chronicles of Narnia, Redwall and Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Favorite Movie: Uh . . . what day of the week is it? Tuesday? Well, probably, The Princess Bride.
Favorite TV Show(s): The X-Files, The Twilight Zone.
Favorite Book: Jules Verne’s Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea; but if you mention The Mysterious Island, I will shove a live badger up your nose.
Favorite Author: Jack London, Brian Jacques and Frederic S. Durbin.
Guilty Pleasure: 80′s music . . . bad 80′s music.
Crush(es): Jimmy Stewart.
Vendetta(s): Please, I did not get to where I am today by letting people know I will be coming for them.
Fan Fiction: Pro or Con? Well . . . the First Amendment protects it . . . I guess.
THE FINAL 5
Trek or Wars: Wars. Unless that also means those abominable prequels… then neither.
DC or Marvel: Neither – to the chagrin of my husband, I never got into superheroes.
Vampires or Werewolves: Werewolves.
Dragons or Unicorns: Unicorns for the win!
Time Travel: Pro or Con? Pro. I would totally use one of man’s greatest scientific achievements for the sole purpose of arranging a date with Jimmy Stewart.
FEATURES
- Geek Speak: Year One (Contributor), an anniversary issue retrospective, Issue 13, March 2011
- Oz, visting with L. Frank Baum’s original classic, Issue 14, April 2011
- Through the Pensieve, reflections on Harry Potter (Contributor), Issue 17, July 2011
- One for the Books, a look at NPR’s Top SFF Novels 1 – 50 (Contributor), Issue 19, September 2011
- Weekend Warrior, why Dungeons and Dragons is a great way to spend a Saturday night, Issue 19, September 2011
- Two for the Books, a look at NPR’s Top SFF Novels 51 – 100 (Contributor), Issue 20, October 2011
- Since We’ve Been Gone, the last six months in genre, Vol. 2, Issue 1, April 2012
- You, Too, Can Save the World (Contributor), a Batman reflection, Vol. 2, Issue 4, July 2012
- Red Dwarf Returns! A tribute, ahead of Red Dwarf X, Vol. 2, Issue 5, August 2012
- My First Crush (Contributor), Vol. 2, Issue 10, January 2013
THE TOP 13
- Geek Speak Recommendations (Contributor), Issue 13, March 2011
REVIEWS
MOVIES
- The 13th Warrior (1999)
- The Hunger Games (2012)
- The Sixth Sense (1999)
- The X-Files: I Want to Believe (2008)
TV – ON DVD
BOOKS
- Auraria by Tim Westover
- Dark Parties by Sara Grant
- Innocent Darkness by Suzanne Lazear
- Knight’s Curse by Karen Duvall
- Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
- Spellbound by Cara Lynn Shultz
- Talisman of El by Alecia Stone
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

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