Your first exposure to James Bond happened before the age of nine, you probably fell in love with the series for one reason: the gadgets.

The women were hot, but you wouldn’t care about that for a few more years. James Bond was tough and could fight, but so could those … read more»

Congratulations; if you are in this room you have passed your assessment examinations and been accepted as Trans-Reality Field Naturalist Cadets. In the weeks ahead you will not merely be sent into other worlds, but into other realities of this world. These worlds, also known as alternate universes, have been … read more»

In both its comic book and television incarnations, The Walking Dead asks a fundamental narrative question: Why do the dead come back to life? This is a question posed by other entries in the zombie subgenre too, most notably George Romero’s series of six zombie films (from 1968’s Night of … read more»

“There is nothing new under the sun”—from Ecclesiastes 1:9—is as true for our sun as for any alien sun, any sun in an alternate reality or a parallel universe, or even for a world, if one could exist, with no sun at all. Which is to say, that statement is … read more»