Ghosted by TV Shows
We’ve all had this experience. We get hooked on a show. We fall in love with the characters. We can’t stop thinking about them in between...
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Episodes
Latest firstExtreme Makeover: Fairy Godmother Edition
Who wouldn’t want a fairy godmother to solve our problems with the flick of a magic wand? We know that’s not a healthy fantasy and yet,...
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How to Go to Infinity and Beyond
These ships feel like old friends – The Enterprise, the Millennium Falcon, Battlestar Galactica, Serenity, The Rosinante. But would any of...
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Welcome Our New A.I. Overlords
Science fiction has primed us for this moment when artificial intelligence starts to take on a life of its own. ChatGPT has baffled and...
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Warhammer - The Heavy Metal of Board Games
As the Warhammer franchise reaches its 40th anniversary, the company Games Workshop’s stated goal of “total global domination” is going...
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Why The Gothic Keeps Gaslighting Us
Our culture is going through a Gothic Revival -- partly thanks to the influence of Tim Burton. Gothic literature may have thrived in the...
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Haunted By Pepper's Ghost
A play by Charles Dickens. The Haunted Mansion ride at Disneyland. A hologram of a famous dead pop singer. They’re all connected by a...
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Making The Muppets
When Jim Henson hired Bonnie Erickson to design Muppets in the early 1970s, Bonnie had no idea this experimental project they were working...
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Miyazaki Imagines an Environment
This summer, Hayao Miyazaki will be releasing his final animated film before retiring. Environmental stewardship has been a consistent...
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Entering Discworld. Population: Terry Pratchett.
Discworld might be the most popular fantasy series you’ve never heard of. The late Terry Pratchett wrote 41 novels in the Discworld...
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The Blazing World
Margaret Cavendish was a pioneer of modern science fiction – except she didn’t intend to write science fiction. In the 17th century,...
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100 Years of Weird Tales
When the March 1923 issue of Weird Tales hit newsstands, many people didn’t know what to make of this new magazine. But 100 years later,...
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Catching the Mind Virus
The town of Ong's Hat in New Jersey may have been the site of a top secret experiment that brought scientists to a parallel world in...
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A Nation Dreams to Survive
As we near the one year anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, I check in with the Ukrainian writers I interviewed for my 2022...
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The Human Touch
I’ve been following parallel media stories about visual artists in two different fields. Each story is about artists who create fantastical...
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Magic of Nghi Vo
Nghi Vo's novels Siren Queen and The Chosen and the Beautiful have gotten widespread critical acclaim, which was a pleasant surprise to her...
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The Set Jet Crowds
When a fantasy or sci-fi story is set in a real location, what happens when fans go to that place looking for a glimpse of magic? How do...
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Octavia Butler Revisited
This year marks the 75th anniversary of Octavia Butler’s birth. There have been commemorations nationwide, and I wanted to join in by...
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Monsters in the Static
In the subgenre of analog horror, there’s something sinister or supernatural lurking in the horizontal lines and vertical holds in those...
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True Crime Fairy Tale
Was the tale of Hansel and Gretel inspired by a real crime in German history? It would make for a great story, if it were true. This week’s...
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