Lions and Tigers and Bears…Oh My!: Wayback Wednesday
Humans tend to be central to fantasy stories. It is unusual for the point of view character to be of a different race. There are notable...
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Nov 1, 2023
Witches, Wonderful and Wicked: Wayback Wednesday
“Double, d mething wicked this way comes.” This line, stated by the three witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, is possibly the most famous...
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Oct 25, 2023
Endings and Beginnings: Wayback Wednesday
After fourteen weeks, we have finally arrived at the end of Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Pirates of Venus. A milestone. Yet the journey isn’t...
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Oct 18, 2023
Sword, Stave, and Wand-Magic in Warfare: Wayback Wednesday
Warfare is a constant of human history. Rarely, if ever, has there not been some armed conflict going on somewhere in the world. Most of...
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Oct 11, 2023
The Comic Rack: Wayback Wednesday
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...
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Oct 4, 2023
Warning Labels: Wayback Wednesday
It seems like just about everything has a warning label on it these days. Here’s an example from a shipping bag. Warning: To avoid danger...
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Sep 28, 2023
“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, 2023
“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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
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, 2023
"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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