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Choose Your Own Adventure
One of the unique aspects of video games is that you can control the characters. But game developers are often torn between wanting to give the playe…
7 years, 1 month ago
Reimagining the Gods
Madeline Miller received critical acclaim for her novels The Song of Achilles and Circe – which reimagine The Iliad and The Odyssey told from the per…
7 years, 1 month ago
A Visit by Three Ghosts
In a special stocking stuffer of an episode, Stephanie Billman and I discuss why A Christmas Carol set the template for SF stories to come -- from Ba…
7 years, 2 months ago
Board Games Go Indie
We all grow up playing board games and card games, and now those games are growing up as well. I check out BostonFIG (festival of independent games),…
7 years, 2 months ago
How I Won the Larp
In my 2017 episode Winning the Larp, I looked at the history of larps (live action role plays) and how the larping experience is deeply personal for …
7 years, 2 months ago
Alternate Movie Posters
Long ago, before we found out about new movies from tweets about teaser trailers that advertised full-length trailers – the first glimpse of a new mo…
7 years, 3 months ago
Faith in Fantasy
Science fiction has not always been compatible with religion -- in fact many futuristic settings imagine no religion at all. But sci-fi and fantasy h…
7 years, 3 months ago
Don't Mess with the Fairies
Forget Tinkerbell or those Victorian paintings of spritely pixies with wings. Traditional fairy folklore is much darker and weirder. Irish storytelle…
7 years, 4 months ago
Movies for the Mind
There has been a renaissance of audio drama podcasts over the last several years, so picking up where I left off in the previous episode, I bring the…
7 years, 4 months ago
Theater for the Mind
The "golden age of radio drama" may have been a stellar period for storytelling -- but the stories weren't all golden bright. Science fiction and hor…
7 years, 5 months ago