Gloria McMillan has written and published one murder mystery, _The Blue Maroon Murders _(Anaphora Literary Press, 2012), edited _Orbiting Ray Bradbury’s Mars_, (an interdisciplinary collection of essays by literary, film, and other scholars, as well as by planetary scientists,
McFarland Publ. 2013).
Gloria is active in Planet Zoom Players, whose current production is _R.U.R._ (_Rossum’s Universal Robots_) by Karel Capek (1920). Our adaptation of _R.U.R._ will be an animatics production of the historic play that introduced the robot to the world and put it in all dictionaries. As of March 2026, we have recorded the preface. We will record Acts 1, 2, & 3 separately and release on YouTube in four parts. Our translation is an improvement on the one used for 70 years and by a by Stepan Simek, native Czech speaker. We also have an award-winning composer creating our score.
In addition, Gloria facilitates the Hard-Science SF Zoomers group that meets monthly and publishes its speaker son YouTube. To join, write: scifi200111@gmail.com.