Science Fiction in the National Interest

I stumbled upon an interesting article published in a May '07 USA Today that described a group of scifi authors that consults with the Department of Homeland Security.

"We'll play 'What if?' with anything," says Sage Walker, an emergency medicine physician turned sci-fi writer and the only woman in the group. She says the discussions with government officials "tend to be very intense and far-ranging."

Kinda cool.