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Back to SearchTrue 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 episode c…
3 years, 3 months ago
Indigenous Futurisms
From TV and film to novels and video games, the artistic movement of Indigenous Futurisms has been gaining momentum and breaking cultural barriers. I…
3 years, 3 months ago
Songs in the Key of SF
Jeff Russo has composed music for sci-fi fantasy shows like Star Trek Discovery and Picard, The Umbrella Academy, Altered Carbon, For All Mankind, an…
3 years, 3 months ago
Generation VTube
There is a booming culture of VTubers – people who create content online, but their fans rarely see their real faces or know their names. VTubers use…
3 years, 4 months ago
Befriend The Reaper
One of the most common tropes in fantasy genres is personifying Death – turning this abstract and often terrifying concept into a character that peop…
3 years, 4 months ago
Postcolonial Worlds
The stories we tell about the past can determine the way we understand the present. But what happens when we combine tales of magic and fantasy with …
3 years, 5 months ago
Mentors: Balance of The Force
In part 2 of our mini-series on mentorships, we travel to a galaxy far, far away. Amy Richau (co-author of Star Wars; I am Your Father and other Star…
3 years, 5 months ago
Mentors: Dynamic Duos
In the first of a two-part episode on mentors in fantasy genres, we look at the roles of superheroes and their protégées. Matt Fraction talks about t…
3 years, 6 months ago
Paper Girls on Bikes
When the artist Cliff Chiang co-created the comic book series Paper Girls, about four suburban kids in the ‘80s who get caught up in forces that can …
3 years, 6 months ago
Charting Strange New Worlds
It’s not often that I’m watching a TV show and I think, “I should ask the writers about that.” Luckily, I was in the same undergraduate film program …
3 years, 7 months ago