How Andor Got its Backstory from a TTRPG ​​​


In 1987, Star Wars: The Roleplaying Game added vital details to the sci-fi universe that are still used today.


The impact is still felt in movies, games, novels, and streaming series. I updated and retrofitted an article I wrote for Rolling Stone a while back and posted it on my newsletter. Read it here.

Genre Exercises

I write speculative fiction, cultural criticism, humor, and journalism, with a particular interest in retrofuturism, video games, fandom, and forgotten corners of pop culture history. My work has been published by Wired, Rolling Stone, Slate, McSweeney’s, Alta Journal, Flash Fiction Online, Underland Press, and Nature: Futures. I also publish the newsletter Pop Cultural Precursors.

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If you could rewind time and erase your mistakes, would you use that power responisbly? Or would you be undone by undos? Read my piece in Futures: Science Fiction in Nature, and subscribe for more sci-fi flash fiction.I wish more science mags still published speculative fiction. We didn't know how good we had it with Omni back in the day...

Read my dystopian sci-fi horror about End Times Reply Guys. "I don’t enjoy playing the role of That Annoying Internet Guy who reflexively replies with hectoring know-it-all comments like 'Why are you surprised?' or 'How is this news?' But people force me..." Read it here

Sorry, Villeneuve and David Lynch. This version wins even though it never made it past pre-production... Read about it in my newsletter.