“It’s the End of the World as We Know It”: Wayback Wednesday
World War II ended in a huge bang. Most explosively, the detonation of the atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. With the surrender of...
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- Sep 20
“With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility”: Wayback Wednesday
Fantasy tales, especially those aimed at children, have often been designed to teach life lessons. They show the worst possible outcome...
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- Sep 12
War Changes Everything: Wayback Wednesday
The stock market crash of October 24, 1929, heralded the beginning of the Great Depression. Worldwide gross domestic product (GDP) was...
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- Sep 6
Shakespeare and the Bible: Wayback Wednesday
T.S. Elliot famously said “Good writers borrow, great writers steal.” Elliot was not condoning plagiarism in the least. What he was...
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- Aug 30
Cheap Paper, Cheap Printing, & Cheap Authors: Wayback Wednesday
In 1882, Frank Munsey launched a children’s magazine titled The Golden Argosy. He used a steam printing press to ink the pages, which...
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- Aug 23
The Fear of Fairies: Wayback Wednesday
Fairies, in modern-day stories, have more in common with Tinkerbell from Walt Disney’s Peter Pan than anything else. They’re portrayed as...
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- Aug 16
To Be Continued…: Wayback Wednesday
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...
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- Aug 9
Fantasy, Fey, and Forty-Seven: Wayback Wednesday
Two weeks ago, we started with an overview of what the blog would be about. Last week we looked at the historical cost of books. This...
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- Aug 2
The Cost of Fiction: Wayback Wednesday
“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...
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- Jul 26
"A Beginning is a Very Delicate Time." : Wayback Wednesday
Take a moment to think about the science fiction and fantasy media you have access to. It probably took longer than only a moment,
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