I guest-starred on Worldbuild with Us, a podcast devoted to building an fantasy setting, one episode at a time.

These are the people I've seen reappear time and time again in writing workshops, like a recurring cancer.

In the vast majority of contemporary genre writing (in the novel form, and particularly in science fiction), writers have a slow rate of revelation, blending world-building factoids scene-to-scene, rather than in front-loading blobs.

Emotionally overwrought and narratively underdeveloped, Arrival echoes Interstellar, despite intriguing premise and breathtaking visuals.

The Duffer Brother's new genre flick Stranger Things is bursting at the seams with nostalgia, but for want of new ideas.

Some secrets need to remain buried, and the 2012 Mayan apocalypse is one of them. X-Files love runs deep for me, as it does for many fans. Here are my thoughts about the revival.

Our love of the "eternal return" in Hollywood isn't anything new, and Star Wars: The Force Awakens is no exception to the rule.

Critics praise Mr. Robot for going against the grain, but its textbook conformity to cyberpunk tropes reveals it’s doing anything but: this is cyberpunk for the masses.

Despite the wildly different approaches to storytelling Mad Max & Tomorrowland take to the apocalypse, I was surprised to find their message is the same.

I struggled to understand why Interstellar didn't strike a "spiritual" chord with me. So I rewatched Contact, which also stars Matthew McConaughey.