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WGAWest’s Written By magazine has released its Summer 2007 issue and it’s full of SciFi TV Writing articles. Here’s the blurb from their site:

"Holy frak! His fans believe Battlestar Galactica creator Ron Moore is resurrecting the sci-fi genre, but this showrunner’s most devout followers are on his writing staff.

Plus investigate the history of science fiction from moon men to X-Men, Buck Rogers to Darth Vader and beyond; a look back at Stanley Kubrick’s all-too-human relationship with his screenwriters; and meet the writers of the new anthology TV series Masters of Science Fiction."

Best of all, this issue has a new feature called, In Orbit. It spotlights six excellent science fiction scripts that never got produced. You can download PDFs of all six screenplays for free at Written By’s website. And if you purchase the magazine, you can read the story behind each scripts journey through Hollywood and how it ended up in development purgatory. Information on all six after the jump.

The Ark
by Holly Brix
The Bible tells you so? When a strange vessel is discovered embedded in an Icelandic glacier, holy texts must go into rewrite. For God’s sake, Noah sailed a much farther voyage than scholars suspected. Get out your prayer books.

Deep Sky
by Matt Johnson
Space noir from the 23rd century A.D. Interstellar thieves embark on a heist of a Light SpeedFreighter. It’s no playground for the Earth-bound. But if you’re tough enough, strap on the hardware . . . ladies first.

Moebius
by Neil Cohen
Think riding New York subway trains during rush hour can be scary? Imagine the horror when #3 from Brooklyn vanishes into a parallel dimension—with your spouse on board. Nothing’s on time in this twilight zone. Buy your ticket to paradise . . . or hell.

Night Watch
by Gabrielle Stanton & Harry Werksman
Why can’t vampires, shapeshifters, fairies, trolls, and humans all get along? Integration isn’t working in a New York City patrolled by the Supernatural Crimes Division, despite the Constitution’s Non-Human Civil Rights Act. Sound familiar?

Paranormal
by Joe Ide
Talk about mad cow disease! The lighter side of sci-fi finds demons at the dairy farm. You’ll never be able to eat hamburger with a straight face again. Got milk? Be afraid. Be very afraid.

R & D
by Philip Gerson
Homeland Security of the future has improved. The agency employs androids as guardians. Technological surveillance is total and constant. Everyone’s on someone’s watch list. Yet terrorists detonate bombs almost at will. Fortunately, an artist’s talent demonstrates that the best defense is a good imagination.

It’s hard to find good Internet resources targeted specifically to SciFi TV Writers. Thank you, Written By!