Over the past 40 years, Shigeru Miyamoto has been inventing the modern video game one pixel at a time. From... more

When Joe Dever died in 2016, he hadn’t written the last several books in his Lone Wolf series. The Lone... more

When the writer Nnedi Okorafor coined the term Africanfuturism, she wanted to distinguish sci-fi written about Africa from Afrofuturism, which... more

Back in 2018, I interviewed language creator David J. Peterson about how he invented Dothraki for Game of Thrones and... more

The Wizard of Oz is deeply ingrained into our culture. While many people can practically recite the 1939 movie, the... more

In the previous episode, I interviewed documentary filmmaker Isaac Elliot-Fisher about He-Man and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Isaac had so... more

In the final episode of our mini-series Class of '84, we look at two iconic franchises that launched in 1984:... more

In the second episode of our mini-series on groundbreaking works from 1984, we jack into the system and upload our... more

When I interviewed special effects artist Shannon Shea about The Terminator and other villains of ’84, we also discussed his... more

This year marks the 40th anniversary of a lot of landmarks in pop culture, especially sci-fi and fantasy. So many... more