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Sci-Fi Walks the Runway

Widow’s Bay Builds a History with Horror

Economics in The Alien Franchise Isn't Science Fiction

Is Money Ruining Fanfiction?

Choose Your Own Odyssey

The U.S. of Play - Part 2: Silly Putty, Twister and Monopoly

The U.S. of Play - Part 1: Wagons, Bears and Dolls

How Folklore Spirited Anime Away

The Father of Sword and Soul

Many Faces of Jekyll and Hyde in Pop Culture

Holmes and Watson: True Crime Podcasters

Celebrating 300 Imaginary Worlds

Puppeteering Project Hail Mary

How D.C. Fontana Helped Star Trek Live Long and Prosper

Absolute Reimagining of DC Comics

Sinners Gives Hoodoo Its Due

Scarlet Hollow Draws a Picture of Indie Video Game Success

The Creative Process of Rewriting History with Assassin’s Creed

Say No to Santa World Tour: An Audio Drama

Searching for Cryptids in Folklore America

This Animated Life: A History of Cartoons in Three Acts

Worldbuilding Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein

The Real History of Dracula and Frankenstein

How Forbidden Planet Refined the Music of Sci-Fi

The Battle to Make Star Wars Becomes a Graphic Novel

Lifting the Curtain on Theatrical Effects

The Shark That Ate Hollywood

Dreaming of Coney Island's Dreamland

From 8-Bit to Orchestras: Video Game Music Evolves

How Jack Kirby Made His Mark on Marvel

The Hitchhiker's Guide to Douglas Adams

Imagining the Digital Afterlife

Murderbot Is Ready for Its Close-Up (But Not Eye Contact)

The Bright Legacy of Dark Shadows

Body Horror Gets Under My Skin

Bonus: Syd Mead Full Gallery Tour

The Optimist Behind Blade Runner's Dystopia

Inventing Utopias and Fighting Dystopias with Architecture

Mary Blair: Painting Disney’s Colorful History

Bonus: Superstar Stuntwoman of Silent Cinema

Milicent Patrick: Forgotten Creator of a Monster Icon

Pokémon and The Art of Dubbing Anime

Filk Fusion: Where Sci-Fi Meets Folk Music

An Immersive World Under Wall St.

Rewriting the Script on Audio Fiction

The Muppets Before The Muppets

Bond, Bond, and James Bond: An Audio Drama

Making Up The Penguin

There's No Place Like Oz

Why Marvel is Betting Their Future on Doctor Doom

Who Gets to Survive: The Final Girls of Horror

Did Sci-Fi Get Aliens Right?

Introducing Between Imaginary Worlds

Escaping Prison with Role-Playing Games

10th Anniversary Special Part 2

10th Anniversary Special Part 1

Unlocking the Door Between Escape Rooms and Immersive Theater

The Craft of Narrating Audio Books From Other Worlds

Fantasy and Fascism Part II: When Democracy Fails

The Team Behind Hans Zimmer

Swept Away by Romantasy

When Fantasy Gets Banned

The George Lucas Talk Show

How Nintendo Leveled Up

You Are Lone Wolf: A Father/Son Role-Playing Quest

African Sci-Fi Looks to a Future Climate

When All Is Said in Dune

Mother-in-Law of Oz

Bonus: Turtles and Toys Outtakes

Class of '84: Turtles, Transformers and Toys Takeover TV

Class of '84: When Cyber Was Punk

Bonus: Rise of The Villains Outtakes

Class of '84: Rise of The Villains

Making Blue Eye Samurai

The Tragedy That Inspired Ursula K. le Guin’s Fantasy

@ChristmasCarol: A Holiday Tale

Doctor Who's Power of Regeneration

How One Piece Became King of the Backstories

Bonus: Norse Myths Outtakes

Seeing Ourselves in Norse Myths

The Craft of Creating Hindu Fantasy Worlds

Haunted Housing Market

Grounding Fictional Universes with Real Sounds

Red Dwarf: The Sci-Fi Sitcom with Nine Lives

Our Listeners’ Favorite Unsung Sci-Fi Fantasy Gems

Ghosted by TV Shows, Seeking Closure

Extreme Makeover: Fairy Godmother Edition

Are Sci-Fi Spaceships Flights of Fancy? We Ask Scientists.

Sci-Fi Prepared Us For The Wrong AI

Warhammer - The Heavy Metal of Board Games

Why The Gothic Keeps Gaslighting Us

Haunted By Pepper's Ghost

Miss Piggy’s Designer on Making The Muppets

Miyazaki Imagines an Environment

The Four Sides of Terry Pratchett in His Discworld

The Noblewoman Who Invented Sci-Fi Before Mary Shelley

100 Years of Weird Tales

Can an Immersive World Become Too Immersive?

Ukrainian Science Fiction Goes to War

Losing The Human Touch in The Visual Arts

Nghi Vo’s Devilish Worldbuilding

The Sci-Fi Fantasy Tourist Economy

How Octavia Butler Wrote Her Own Story in Speculative Fiction

Monsters in The Static: Why Analog Horror Scares Gen Z

True Crime Fairy Tale

Indigenous Futurisms Try to Right Past Wrongs

Composing Music in the Key of SFF

VTubers Reinvent Themselves with Avatars

When Death Joins the Cast of Characters

Speculative Fiction Rewrites the Narrative on Colonialism

Were The Jedi Bad Mentors?

Dynamic Duos and the Need for Mentorship

Why Kids on Bikes is a Perfect Storytelling Genre

Charting Strange New Worlds

It Ain’t Over Till the Robot Sings

The Art of Piracy

200 Imaginary Worlds

Mystery Science Theater Reopens

The Cyberpunk Novel That Influenced Silicon Valley (Too Much)

Which Heroes Are Aging Well or De-Aging Poorly?

The Neurodivergent Fans on Why Sci-Fi Matters to Them

Nosferatu: Live in Concert

How Sci-Fi Predicted the Russia-Ukraine War

Asian Futures Without Asians

Time Travel Migrants

Headcanon Fodder: Fandom Rewrites the Narrative

Politics of the Funnies: Li’l Abner Turns Right

Politics of the Funnies: Pogo Turns Left

Pop Culture Splits into Multiverses

Have Yourself a Scary Little Krampus

Building Fine Art One LEGO Brick at a Time

Re-Rolling the Design of Role-Playing Games

Did A French Theater Invent Modern Horror?

The Ecology of Dune

Why '70s Office Decor Holds the MCU Together

The Video Game Industry Adapts to Blind Players

The Hidden Queerness of Sailor Moon and Disney Villains

Samurai to Star Wars: The Legend of Musashi

Giving Imaginary Advice

The Married Couple Who Hooked Up Harley Quinn with Poison Ivy

Thankless Jobs: Journalists in Comic Book Stories

The Matrix Might Be Real

Fandom Confessions: Our Listeners’ Guilty Pleasures

Why Disco Elysium Broke Gamers and They Loved It

The Weir Science of Project Hail Mary and The Martian

The Zen of Sci-Fi

The Cozy Worldbuilding of Becky Chambers

The Jazz Genius From Outer Space

Second Life Goes On

Tron: Welcome to the Machine

Folklore Is No Fairy Tale

Reinventing The Spooky Sound of Classic Sci-Fi

Betty Boop and the Hays Code

Why Camelot Never Was and Always Shall Be

The Retro Makeup of Doctor Who’s Aliens

Monsters of 2020

Fan Films Put Fandom in The Captain’s Chair

Speculative Fiction Lost and Found in Translation

Adulting with Cowboy Bebop

Law & Order Superheroes

What Sci-Fi Fantasy Can Tell Us About Fascism

Ahsoka Tano: A New Hope for Star Wars Fans

Mission to Zyxx

Doug Jones: Guillermo del Toro’s Go-To Creature Actor

A Harry Potter Fan’s Reckoning

How Writers of Color Are Inverting Lovecraft

Once and Future Comic Con

Creativity of Creature Makeup Design

Larping in Place

Are Time Travel Stories Unhealthy Fantasies?

The Curse of The Horror Movie Curse

Childhood Toys That Still Comfort Our Listeners

Solarpunk the Future

The Video Game That Predicted a Real Pandemic

Are Retcons Gaslighting Fandoms?

The Challenge of Imagining Heavenly Places

Wild West to Watchmen: History Gets Whitewashed

2001: A Filmmaking Odyssey

The Forgotten Artist Behind the Most Famous Tarot Cards

Why The Borg Keeps Assimilating Star Trek Shows

In Defense of The Star Wars Holiday Special

Can Villains Be Good?

My So Called Evil Plan

For All Mankind Blasts Off

The Origin of Alien Abduction Narratives

The Art of Talking to the Dead

Monster or Anti-Hero? Godzilla’s Creators Disagreed

Evangelion: The Anime That Won’t End

What We Lost From Hand-Drawn Animation

The Booj

Superheroes in the Ring

Dirk Maggs on Creating Immersive Audio Dramas

The Undertaker Wrestles with The Supernatural

Movie Props vs. Forgeries: A Collector’s Dilemma

Cosplay Meets Burlesque in Nerdlesque

Sidekicks: Harley Quinn Escapes Toxicity

Sidekicks: Tonto, Kato and Heroism Denied

Sidekicks: Why Watson is Elemental

Rod Serling's Key of Imagination

The Hero's Journey Endgame

Slaughterhouse at Fifty

Tales of Margaret Brundage

The Man Behind Conan’s Sword

The Power of the Makeover Mage

Designing Morality in Role-Playing Video Games

Flipping the Narrative on Greek Myths

A Visit by Three Ghosts

Board Games Go Indie

How I Won the Larp

Movie Poster Artists Uncap Their Creativity

Can Faith and Science-Fiction Co-Exist?

Don't Mess with the Fairies

Audio Storytelling and Movies For The Mind

The Dark Side of Golden Age Radio Dramas

Fantastical Feasts and The Writers Who Cooked Them Up

Meet My D&D Group

Creating a Haven for Fanfiction

Do You Speak Klingon? Inventing Culture Through Language

Fictional Deaths My Listeners are Not Over

Fahrenheit 451 Still Burns

Behind the Design of Magic: The Gathering

The First Three Lives of Catherine Webb

The Westworld Experience

Jack Kirby's Marvels

Can Living in Space Ever Feel Like Home?

Visions of Philip K. Dick

Digital People Try to Leave the Uncanny Valley

Remembering Ursula K. Le Guin

Why Doctor Who’s Daleks Still Scare Kids

Who Would Travel in Doctor Who’s TARDIS?

Doctor Who? The Question That Keeps Regenerating

Brain Chemistry: An Audio Drama

The Last Jedi Splits Star Wars Fandom

Politics of The Expanse

Robot Collar Jobs

On The Front Lines of Military Science Fiction

Fanfiction (Don't Judge)

Why The Haunted Mansion Ride Was Almost Doomed

Rappers with Arm Cannons

Creative Process Behind a Cyberpunk Concept Album

Why Sci-Fi Needs Believable Technobabble

The Craft of Designing Sci-Fi Control Panels

Scott Snyder’s Comic Book Therapy

What Makes a Good Evil Plan?

The Islamic Worldbuilding in Dune

Video Game Veterans of World War EVE

How Science Fiction Imagined the Internet

Do The Voice: An Audio Drama

The Real Twin Peaks

Designing Bojack's World

Healing Through Horror

Imagining a Flooded New York as a New Venice

Creative Freedom of Sci-Fi Behind The Iron Curtain

The Spirit of Will Eisner Lives On in Comics

28 Days of Black Cosplay

Growing Up Avatar-American

Winning the Larp

Atari vs The Imagination Gap

Workin' on the Death Star

Designing Fascism for The Man in The High Castle

Harry Potter Fans and Dumbledore’s Army

Harry Potter and The Trauma at Hogwarts

Harry Potter Fans and The Sorting Hat Dilemma

Worldbuilding with Magical Thinking

Mapping Out Fictional Universes

The Hobbits and The Hippies

Puppet Feelings and Felt Storytelling

Finding My Voice

The Legacy of Sci-Fi Trailblazer Octavia Butler

Ghost in The Shell and The Culture of Anime

The Heartbreaking Joy of the Video Game Undertale

How a Climate Crisis Inspired Frankenstein

Then She Fell: A Rabbit Hole of Immersive Theater

The Robot Uprising

Future Humans May Not Be Entirely Human

Economics of Thrones and Starships

A Fan’s Quest to Become Godzilla

When Cthulhu Calls: A Lovecraftian Audio Drama

The D&D Chart That Explains Pop Culture

Imagining Wonder Woman

Hidden Genius in the Background of Looney Tunes

Is Dracula Really From Nebraska?

Worldbuilding Inside a Snow Globe

The Expanded Universe of Star Wars Collapses

Star Wars Lawyer Defends Han Shot First

A Gold Bikini Divides Star Wars Fandom

Would You Be The Rebels or The Empire in Star Wars?

Pop Culture on the Eve of Star Wars

Great Scott! It's The Future!

Why The Alien Invasion Narrative is Problematic

The Truth Is Out There

Discovering D&D in Adulthood

Heroines Hit a Glass Ceiling of Character Development

Why Do Superhero Costumes Look So Good Now?

Doppelgängers Double Narrative Possibilities

Time Travelers of Renwick St.

The Greatest Cartoon Almost Made

Why Ron Moore Killed Captain Kirk

True Vampires of New Haven: An Audio Drama

CyberCity: A Military Strategist’s Real Fantasy World

What Game of Thrones Teaches Us About Politics

My Zombie Phobia Goes Into Analysis

The Mysterious James Tiptree of Speculative Fiction

Utopias: The First Science Fiction?

Scott Snyder on Writing Batman Comics

Deprogramming The Sexy Robot Trope

The Golem and The Jinni Blend Jewish and Muslim Folklore

Reinventing Buffy in Comics

Action Figures for The Kidult Generation

In Defense of Captain Hook

Saving The Girl in Comic Book Films

Devilish Fantasies of The Salem Witch Trials

Rivalry of The Two Wizards of Oz

How Sacred Is The Canon of Fictional Universes?

Puppets vs. Digital Creatures

The Power of Origin Stories