Odin Halvorson

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Contributor Since May, 2024

Qualifications MFA, MLIS; 10 years professional writing and editing.

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Science Fiction, TV, Movies

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About Odin Halvorson

Odin Halvorson works at the intersection of technology, creativity, and community, bridging the gap between science, the arts, and empathy. With an MFA from Stonecoast and an MLIS from San Jose State (in progress), Odin's lifelong love of the creative arts is well married to his love of detailed research. His fiction has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, and his writing has appeared online and in print in venues such as The Strand and Analog Science Fiction and Fact. He also co-founded Round Table Writers, an organization dedicated to “writers helping writers”. Odin's research has been twice featured at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA).

As an itinerant volunteer and community organizer, he has helped build projects for social good at both the national and local scales, with organizations such as Socrates Cafe and EveryLibrary. As a librarian and creative writer, he engages directly with the public in multiple spheres, working to foment a plurality of perspective within diversity's infinite combinations.

Odin digs 90s sci-fi and fantasy, and will happily gush about B5, Farscape, and Buffy. He would dearly love for a faithful TV series to be made from The Vorkosigan Saga.

Favorite Games

I've gotten picky with games the older I get. Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (I & II), Mass Effect, Skyrim, Stellaris, Beyond: Two Souls, Detroit: Become Human, Dishonored, Morrowind, FTL: Faster Than Light, Metro: Exodus, Hogwarts Legacy, Rimworld, Reassembly, Battlefront II (The original), XCOM.

Favorite TV Shows

Farscape, Babylon 5, Star Trek (TOS, TNG, VOY, DS9, SNW), Firefly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Lost Girl, Fallout, Dark Matter, Killjoys, Loki, Children of Dune, Murder She Wrote, Poirot, Sherlock Holmes (with Jeremy Brett), Wandavision, Red Dwarf, The Great British Bake-Off, Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, Cobra Kai, One Piece, Good Omens (only season 1, though), Fraiser, Castle, Hogen's Heroes, MASH, The Tick (2001), The Addams Family (only the original), Hamish Macbeth, Black Books, Spaced, XENA, Hercules, Andromeda, Stranger Things, Altered Carbon (Season 1 only), Anthony Bourdain (anything), Doctor Who, The Expanse, Lovejoy, Sense8, Parks and Recreation, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Legend of Kora (only season 1),

Favorite Console

Gotta be my old N64. My original Game Boy was pretty rad too, though. And the first Xbox was just plain sweet. I'm all about PC these days, but kinda want to get a retro emulator for friends' game nights.