Sci-fi author and college professor chats about writing

Albert Wendland Shows How Sci-fi Allows Us to Punish the Enemy and Right the Wrongs

Whether called “genre” or “popular” fiction, the point is we love it

Albert Wendland is a co-founder of the Writing Popular Fiction MFA program at Seton Hill University, so it’s not a surprise he’s got a deft hand for telling exciting tales.

Wendland’s first novel starring Mykol Ranglen, out now from Raw Dog Screaming Press. Image courtesy of publisher.

His character Mykol Ranglen, introduced in the novel The Man Who Loved Alien Landscapes, is a space explorer, a poet, and a thinker. He is also unabashedly and admittedly based on the author himself.

“There are drastic differences between him and me,” Wendland says, “but I could use personal quirks…that was easy.”

After the first book’s release, Wendland wrote a prequel titled In a Suspect Universe. What was next? Of course, it was a book of poetry written by Mykol Ranglen himself called Temporary Planets for Transitory Days.