Michael Hemmingson, 47, died of apparent cardiac arrest in Tijuana, Mexico, on January 9. He was a prolific dramatist, journalist, fiction author and critic.

Michael Hemmingson

Within the genre, he wrote the screenplay for the 2007 film Aliens, based on a one act play. (Not connected with Sigourney Weaver movies.)

His media study monograph, Star Trek: A Post-Structural Critique of the Original Series, was a San Diego Book Awards Association  2010 finalist nominee for General Non-fiction Book.

[Thanks to Andrew Porter for the story.]