With a dad like this, of course I write sci-fi

Maybe it's nature. Maybe it's nurture. But with a Dad who put up his own 100-foot radio tower in the backyard, how could I have avoided becoming a devoted science nerd? 

Educators, want to know how to get girls pumped up about science? I think it starts at home. I just had to be told that a book titled ANTENNA METHODOLOGY was exciting, and therefore it was!

Or maybe we just have a very strong nerd gene in the family tree...

1970s aficionados, please take note of the calendar towel behind us. It may still be in my mother's or my towel drawer.

Now if you're excuse me, I need to go cue up the latest Radio Lab podcast.