Once Upon a Prime by Sarah Hart connects mathematics and fiction, encouraging readers to dig deeper into why they like to read what they like to read, using math as a guide. Hart joins us to talk about her path to writing, the unexpected parallels between seemingly different disciplines, some of her favorite mathematical literature facts […]

“I already had a kind of Don Quixote set up in mind. And so I was like, Wouldn’t it be funny if Arthur was the sort of Sancho Panza in this? I’ll just barely touch on it and see where it goes. And I thought he needs someone totally full of himself to shake him […]

It’s a popular cliché that science fiction is just regular fiction…IN SPACE! It certainly doesn’t help that Star Trek was pitched as “Wagon Train…IN SPACE!” and Star Wars is Akira Kurosawa’s “Hidden Fortress…IN SPACE!,” with a couple of effeminate robots thrown in for good measure. But the belief that any story can be turned into […]

Dogs get a bad intellectual rap. Sure, they’re considered the friendliest of the major pet groups. We love our dogs. But it’s cats who get the respect when it comes to brain power. I blame the Egyptians for putting our feline overlords on their original pedestals. When you come home from work, it’s the cat who you expect […]

Harry Potter fans have it good—when they want to revisit J.K. Rowling’s richly imagined world, there’s an entire theme park to visit, rendering famed locales like Diagon Alley and Hogwarts Castle in intricate detail. Not all stories lend themselves to the theme park treatment, of course. Luckily, there are still plenty of places you can […]