Rebecca Langham lives in the Blue Mountains (Australia) with her partner, children, and menagerie of pets. A Xenite, a Whovian and all-round general nerd, she’s a lover of science fiction, comic books, and caffeine. When she isn’t teaching History to high schoolers or wrangling children, Rebecca enjoys playing broomball and reading.

​Her Sci-Fi novel Beneath the Surface was released by NineStar Press in January 2018. She is currently writing the sequel, Beyond the Surface.

Kara Ripley is a pen name used for Rebecca's contemporary romance titles, which are written in a very different style to her speculative fiction stories and sometimes contain graphic content not suitable for any of her curious students who might investigate her work.

If you would like to know further trivia about the author, please scroll down.

​Some of R's favourites...

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BOOKS

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe - Fannie Flagg
The Hours - Michael Cunningham
Daughter of Fortune - Isabel Allende
Kindred - Octavia Butler
Wicked - Gregory Maguire
Out of Oz - Gregory Maguire
The Price of Salt - Patricia Highsmith
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Affinity - Sarah Waters
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Potato Factory - Bryce Courtenay
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
Orlando - Virginia Woolf
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
The Secret River - Kate Grenville
The Good Daughter - Karin Slaughter
Artemis - Andy Weir

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FILMS

​Gattica
Alien + Aliens
A League of Their Own
The Color Purple
Labyrinth
Back to the Future (Trilogy)
Lord of the Rings (Trilogy)
Blade Runner
Fargo
The Abyss
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
​Willow
Fingersmith
The Joy Luck Club
Wonder Woman​
Star Wars (Saga)
Copycat
Pleasantville

TELEVISION SHOWS

Xena: Warrior Princess
Carmilla
Farscape
Dr. Who
Battlestar Galactica
Buffy: The Vampire Slayer
Orphan Black
The 100
Lost Girl
The X Files
House of Cards
Wentworth
Firefly
Jane the Virgin
Warehouse 13
Black Books
Downton Abbey
Star Trek (Voyager + DSN)
Continuum
​The Good Wife & The Good Fight
​Wynonna Earp

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