Sci-fi Writers Join War on Terror

My literature/English class centers around Science Fiction, so today my professor brought in an article from May of this year, explaining how Science fiction writers are being used by the Homeland Security Department.

A great read, and really interesting to know that there is only one woman in the group. Sigma, the group name, requires that you have to have at least on technical doctorate degree, and obviously a heavy interest in Science Fiction. Both of these requirements are pretty male dominated. I think the whole Sigma funding sounds a little science fiction-y itself. That money is going to these authors who live in the future, and think of the impossible. Although if someone was clever enough to think of it, then maybe it's not impossible...

But the main part of the article that caught my eye was one of the members, Larry Niven. Mr. Ringworld himself!

His quote as follows:

Why offer their ideas to the government instead of private companies that pay big bucks?

"To save civilization," Ringworld author Larry Niven says. "We do it in fiction. Why wouldn't we want to do it in fact?"

This struck me as awesome because the second we started up on the article, I was immediately thinking about Halo/Ringworld, in general. Kinda like a subconscious deja-vu thing :)