It may sounds like the stuff of fiction, but it isn't. Homeland Security is looking to the imagination of the Sci-Fi crowd for solutions to homeland security issues.

Homeland Security recently held a conference in Washington to which it invited Sci-Fi writers to provide input on some of the issues facing the agency.

The 9/11 Commission called the 2001 terrorist attacks a result of the government's "failure of imagination." For this group, Sage Walker, an emergency medicine physician turned sci-fi writer and the only woman in the group, says, there's no such thing as an "unthinkable scenario."

Terrorism is a frequent subject of fiction. Even the methods by which the 9/11 attacks were conducted were foretold in fiction stories.

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