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A father’s final wish, a son’s creative and personal journey -- how the Lone Wolf series of game books found a new lease on life.
Africanfuturist writers see a ray of hope in the ominous skies of climate change.
How do you say “nine moons ago” in the Fremen language of Chakobsa? That almost stumped the linguists who worked on Dune: Part Two.
What does the 19th century women’s rights activist Matilda Joslyn Gage have in common with Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz? Gage’s spirit and ideas live on in the books of her son-in-law L. Frank Baum.
In this bonus episode, we hear outtakes from the episode Turtles, Transformers and Toys Takeover TV
How Transformers and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles came to dominate TV and toy aisles, even if they started in radically different places.
In the second installment of our mini-series on 1984 (the year, not the novel) we look at William Gibson’s groundbreaking book Neuromancer, and how it came to define the genre of cyberpunk.
When I interviewed special effects artist Shannon Shea about The Terminator and other villains of ’84, we also discussed his experiences working on Terminator 2. He tells me about the many life-sized puppets of Arnold Schwarzenegger they built and how the industry has changed in the last 40 years. We also hear an outtake from my conversation with Neill Gorton about why the industry is moving away from depicting villains with scars and disabilities. Learn more about your ad choices...
This year marks the 40th anniversary of a lot of great villain debuts. We look at why they don’t make bad guys like they used to – for better and for worse.
I was thrilled to talk with Jane Wu, the director of the hit Netflix series Blue Eye Samurai.