Van Allen Plexico is a 5-time Best Novel award-winner, in five different genres. He is known for the Sentinels illustrated superhero novels and the Shattering space opera series, as well as many short stories, anthologies , comics and non-fiction. He hosts “the White Rocket Babylon 5 Review Podcast” and “On Her Majesty’s Secret Podcast,” and is a professor at Southwestern Illinois College.