Helen Eaton

Helen is originally from Devon in the UK, but lives in Tanzania, where she is a linguist in a Bible translation and language development project. As a Christian with degrees in linguistics, this means that she is pretty much doing her dream job. (If you want to know what it involves, check out her website.)

Firefly initially passed Helen by entirely, as she was living in a remote Tanzanian village without a phone or mains electricity when the show first aired. But a chance meeting with a Browncoat at a linguistics conference in Austria a couple of years later led her to the 'verse and she hasn't looked back since. Keeping up with the fandom from Tanzania isn’t easy, but thanks to the internet, The Signal really does go everywhere.

As well as Firefly, Helen is a big fan of Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who, and probably would be an avid watcher of many more television shows if she actually had a television. But DVDs keep her sane and while waiting for them to come out, she relies on books for her science fiction fix. She enjoys all kinds of science fiction, just so long as it makes her think or laugh, or, ideally, both at the same time. Her favourite writers include C.S. Lewis, Douglas Adams and, of course, Joss Whedon.