After fourteen weeks, we have finally arrived at the end of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Pirates of Venus. A milestone. Yet the journey isn’t...

A story many of us are familiar with: “As a distant planet was destroyed by old age, a scientist placed his infant son within a hastily...

World War II ended in a huge bang. Most explosively, the detonation of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. With the surrender of...

The stock market crash of October 24, 1929, heralded the beginning of the Great Depression. Worldwide gross domestic product (GDP) was...

In 1882, Frank Munsey launched a children’s magazine titled The Golden Argosy. He used a steam printing press to ink the pages, which...

To be continued…” How many of us have seen these words at the end of a story? Maybe you’ve seen it in a television episode. But in a book...

“We had to figure out how to produce books in a cost-effective way.” LeVar Burton, on creating the Reading Rainbow iPad app. We live in a...

Take a moment to think about the science fiction and fantasy media you have access to. It probably took longer than only a moment,