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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is a columnist in the business section of the San Jose Mercury News and author of The Xbox 360 Uncloaked: The Real Story behind Microsoft’s Next-Generation Video Game Console, launched in May 2006. He also wrote Opening the Xbox: Inside Microsoft’s Plan to Unleash an Entertainment Revolution. He currently writes a tech commentary and gadget review column for the newspaper of Silicon Valley. He also podcasts and blogs on video games for the Mercury News via Dean & Nooch on Gaming. For most of his 18 years as a journalist he has written stories about technology and has won several awards. He has written about the video-game industry for 10 years and the semiconductor industry for 12 years. When he has time, he’s an avid gamer. He lives in the suburbs of San Jose, Calif. His favorite game is Halo.

Halo Effect

Chuck Tate, Ph.D.

Chuck Tate, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of psychology at California State University, Bakersfield. Like the Batman, he has a rarely seen alter ego who is gregarious and witty, but in reality Dr. Tate is obsessed with research and spends much of his time in his cave-like office plotting his next set of studies.

The Psychology of Superheroes

Ian Tatersal

Ian Tatersal is a curator in the Division of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. His research is in paleoanthropology and lemur biology, and he is the author of some 20 books including Becoming Human (Harcourt Brace, 1998), Extinct Humans (with Jeffrey Schwartz: Westview Press, 2000), The Monkey in the Mirror (Harcourt, 2002), and the forthcoming New Oxford World History, Vol 1: Beginnings to 4000 BCE (Oxford University Press) and Human Origins: What Bones and Genomes Tell Us About Ourselves (with Rob DeSalle: Texas A&M University Press). He lives in Greenwich Village, N.Y.

The Science of Michael Crichton

Robert Brian Taylor

Robert B. Taylor is a pop-culture writer living in Pittsburgh. He’s a Marvel Comics boy at heart but will argue passionately that “Batman Begins” is the best superhero film ever made. He contributed the essay “The Captain May Wear the Tight Pants, But It’s the Gals Who Make Serenity Soar” to the Smart Pop anthology Finding Serenity: Anti-heroes, Lost Shepherds, and Space Hookers in Joss Whedon’s Firefly. His TV column runs weekly in The Herald, the newspaper of record for Rock Hill, S.C. You can find him online at www.robert-b-taylor.com.

Finding Serenity

Webslinger

Batman Unauthorized

Valerie Taylor and Jane Finocharo

Valerie Taylor is a mom and writer whose novels include The Mommy School and How to Marry the World’s Best Dad. Jane Finocharo is a fifth-grader and budding pop culture maven. They live in Cincinnati with their family and their TiVo.

Totally Charmed

Francine Terry

Francine Terry, M.D., M.P.H., is a lifelong science fiction reader, more recently a writer on topics bridging science fact and fiction and a speaker on hard science topics at many science fiction gatherings. In the “real world,” she works as an emergency physician in Cleveland, operates a small farm with her husband Steve Brownfield and is the founder and chief operating officer of an animal welfare nonprofit, AlterPet Inc. Her science writings have appeared in science fiction publications in both Ohio and Colorado and in national publications such as the Starfleet Communiqué and the UFPI Universal Translator. She and Dr. Howard Scrimgeour, DVM, comprise the “Paradox (pair of docs) Traveling Science Show,” frequently seen presenting biological topics to science fiction fans at Marcon and Toronto Trek. In her spare time, she reads scientific journals, seeking fact-out-of-fiction discoveries to share with fellow fans.

Stepping Through the Stargate

Nancy Tesler

Nancy Tesler was born in Worcester, Mass., and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University. After a career as an actor and a hiatus to raise three children, she began writing for the stage, TV and the financial community. Her second career as a biofeedback clinician helped pay the bills when, single again, and inspired by the overwhelming urge to do someone in, she turned to writing murder mysteries. She is the author of five Carrie Carlin Other Deadly Things novels. She has just completed a standalone novel of romantic suspense and is currently working on the first of new mystery series. Ms. Tesler lives in Tenafly, N.J.

Perfectly Plum

Kim Thiboldeaux

Kim Thiboldeaux is the president and CEO of the Wellness Community and the former director of patient relations for oncology and transplant at Hoffmann-LaRoche, Inc. She lives in Washington, D.C.

The Total Cancer Wellness Guide

David Thomas

David Thomas founded the International Game Journalists Association (www.igja.org) to help support the quality and professionalism of game journalism. He also teaches courses on the history of digital media, critical videogame theory and human environments at the University of Colorado. For more information, see buzzcut.com.

Halo Effect

Evany Thomas

Evany “I’m a Susan” Thomas writes the “Desperate Housewives” recaps for Television Without Pity. She’s also the author of The Secret Language of Sleep: A Couple’s Guide to the Thirty-Nine Positions, the “Tyrolian Harvest” sausage basket catalog in McSweeney’s Issue 17, plus a variety of articles (covering everything from rare cars to soothsayers) for a variety of Web sites (including MSN, Webmonkey, Breakup Girl and The N). More about her writing, history and day-to-day activities can be found at Evany.com.

Welcome to Wisteria Lane

George C. Thomas

George C. Thomas III is a professor of law and Judge Alexander P. Waugh Sr. Distinguished Scholar at Rutgers University, Newark, where he teaches criminal law and constitutional criminal procedure. He has a law degree from the University of Iowa and a doctorate in law from Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of books on double jeopardy, on Miranda v. Arizona (with Richard Leo) and on the law of criminal procedure (with Joshua Dressler). He is also the author of over 50 articles and essays appearing in major law journals.

What Would Sipowicz Do?

Rob Thomas

Rob Thomas is the creator and executive producer of the critically acclaimed drama “Veronica Mars.” Thomas also produced and created the short-lived television series “Cupid,” wrote scripts for television shows “Dawson’s Creek” and “Space Ghosts” and the film “Drive Me Crazy,” and has written several novels for young adults.

Neptune Noir

James Tichenor

If 15 years of film work hasn’t driven James out of the industry, nothing will. He’s tried everything—writing, effects, directing, production assisting, editing, you name it. Sometimes he feels like he’s meant to be there, and sometimes he doesn’t. Years and years of “Stargate,” a doomed season of “Kingdom Hospital,” “Warriors of Virtue” and countless TV movies and series. Who knows what the future will hold… .

Stepping Through the Stargate

Mark W. Tiedemann

Mark W. Tiedemann is the author of Mirage and Chimera, both in the Asimov’s Robot Mystery series; Compass Reach (part of the Secantis Sequence), for which he earned a nomination for the Philip K. Dick Award; and Remains. He has also contributed to the Smart Pop book The The Anthology at the End of the Universe.

The Anthology at the End of the Universe

James Bond in the 21st Century

Remains

Kathleen Tracy

Kathleen Tracy is an entertainment journalist for such magazines as Film News International, Globe and TV Week and is the author of The Girl’s Got Bite, The Real Story of Ellen DeGeneres and The Secret Story of Polygamy. She lives in Sherman Oaks, Calif.

Diana Rigg: The Biography

Karen Traviss

Karen Traviss is a New York Times bestselling author of military science fiction whose critically acclaimed Wess’har novels have been nominated for the Philip K. Dick and Campbell awards. She also writes Star Wars novels for Lucasfilm, where she explores the same themes of identity, species, and political and personal corruption. A former defense correspondent, and TV and newspaper journalist, she has also served in the Royal Naval Auxiliary Service and the Territorial Army. She lives in Wiltshire, England. You can visit her Web site at www.karentraviss.com.

Navigating the Golden Compass

House Unauthorized

Robert Tuchman

Robert Tuchman is the founder and president of New York-based TSE Sports & Entertainment, a global leader in sports and entertainment promotion. He is a contributing writer for ESPN.com and has been featured in publications including the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, the New York Times, BusinessWeek, Entrepreneur and Southwest Airlines Spirit magazine. A frequent guest on “Your World with Neil Cavuto,” Tuchman has appeared on CNN, BET and on the “CBS Morning News.” He resides with his wife Amy in the Upper West Side in Manhattan.

100 Sporting Events You Must See Live

Catharine Tunnacliffe

Catharine Tunnacliffe grew up in Ottawa, was educated at Cambridge University in England and currently resides in Toronto, Canada. She is a freelance film and culture critic for various publications, and is heard regularly on CBC radio. She is also the associate publisher of the alternative newspaper Eye Weekly.

Alias Assumed

Brad Turk

Brad Turk is a successful businessman, a self-made millionaire by age 30, who was able to “retire” by age 36. Getting his start as a successful hip-hop recording artist, he moved on to become one of the nation’s top salespeople for MCI Telecommunications. He’s moved on to create successful businesses such as Global Business Solutions, Inc., Self Made Records, Inc. and Heat Wave Tanning. He has recently launched companies including TellBrad.com, MyMusicSite.com and MeetingExpressO.com and has inked a deal for a reality television show, “Street Battle.”

Lifemoney

Harry Turtledove

Harry Turtledove is an escaped historian who writes alternate history, science fiction, fantasy and historical fiction. One of the—many—reasons he flunked out of Caltech almost 40 years ago was that he read The Lord of the Rings obsessively instead of doing his calculus homework. He hasn’t quite done the same with His Dark Materials, but he’s come much too close.

Navigating the Golden Compass