by Drew Ellenwood | Jan 13, 2016 | Fantasy & Science Fiction
With the new Star Wars movie hitting big, people unfamiliar with fantasy and science fiction may feel out of their depth. For you normal folks, I offer a short introduction – a non-nerd primer so to speak – of accessible examples from fantasy and science fiction in...
by Drew Ellenwood | Oct 24, 2014 | Fantasy & Science Fiction
A TV series has a potential advantage over a movie in that a series affords the chance to follow a story over an extended time. Events are able to unfold into broad plots and themes. Characters can be developed in depth. This is a potential but not an inevitable...
by Drew Ellenwood | Jun 25, 2014 | Out-Genre
A fantasy author discussing The Andy Griffith Show seems a bit odd, but this TV series is an out-genre masterpiece of characterizations, which a fantasy or science fiction author would do well to learn from. You’ll notice that my top ten are from the black and white...
by Drew Ellenwood | Apr 23, 2014 | Fantasy & Science Fiction
This week I’ve invited my daughter Lucy Wright to take a swing for us in the fantasy and science fiction world. Lucy revisits the topic of the pill to swallow in fantasy and science fiction. In our first installment on this subject, I sited some examples where the...
by Drew Ellenwood | Mar 26, 2014 | Fantasy & Science Fiction
A fantasy or science fiction author chucks out one or more real physical laws in order to construct an imaginative world where magic and dragons coexist, where starships can exceed the speed of light, where heroes still look good even with blue skin. But there’s...
