Podcasts

What Is a ‘Role-Playing Game’ Anyway?Jon Petersen’s latest book, The Elusive Shift, shows how games like Dungeons & Dragons came to be known, controversially, as RPGs.https://www.wired.com/feedFeed: All LatestChannel DescriptionTechnology124Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Powered by WPeMatico

The Into the Impossible Podcast Honors Arthur C. ClarkePhysicist Brian Keating, codirector of the Arthur C. Clarke Center for the Human Imagination, started the show to continue the center’s mission of bringing together the world’s top thinkers.https://www.wired.com/feedFeed: All LatestChannel DescriptionTechnology124Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Powered by WPeMatico

The Hollow Earth Theory Isn’t So Funny AnymoreOwen Egerton’s 2017 book Hollow used the theory to tell its story. Now that conspiracies are everywhere, he’s reconsidering that move.https://www.wired.com/feedFeed: All LatestChannel DescriptionTechnology124Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Powered by WPeMatico

Teddy Roosevelt Is Basically a Fantasy CharacterErin Lindsey’s Rose Gallagher books give America’s 26th president the paranormal cowboy stories he deserves.https://www.wired.com/feedFeed: All LatestChannel DescriptionTechnology124Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Powered by WPeMatico

Why Aren’t There More Sci-Fi Movies About Dreams?Classics like Inception and The Cell are at least a decade old.https://www.wired.com/feedFeed: All LatestChannel DescriptionTechnology124Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Powered by WPeMatico

Terry Gilliam Movies Are All About ImaginationDuring his 50-year career, the director has made a series of films that are wonderfully quixotic—even when they go off the rails.https://www.wired.com/feedFeed: All LatestChannel DescriptionTechnology124Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy Powered by WPeMatico