RS Burghardt is the author of Experiment 93, a sci-fi novel about an escaped alien military experiment, taken in and hidden by a recently widowed father, who passes her off as an exchange student. The title character, Nina becomes a wonderful vehicle to take an innocent, and oftentimes humorous, look at our world and explore the nature of love, the soul, and what it is to be a person. The other characters grow and change. Side characters become important, villains become heroes, or at least understandable, and the story is filled with cool alien gadgets based on actual scientific principles (and a very vivid imagination).

Experiment 93 began as a newspaper serial in RS Burghardt’s hometown newspaper.