Note: The quality of the video starts off very shonky but soon improves. 🤷
As Tales from the Triverse reaches its final conclusion after four and a half years, I’ve been thinking about the influences that contributed to its early development and design. In this video I take a closer look at some of them, including:
The Wire TV show
Gotham Central comic
Iain M. Banks’ Culture novels
Kim Stanley Robinson’s work, especially the Mars trilogy and Galileo’s Dream
The Expanse TV show and novels
Crime fiction generally, and the Noirwich festival
Babylon 5 TV show
The 1980s UK Transformers comic, specifically Simon Furman’s work on it
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power Netflix remake, showrunner ND Stevenson
In the video I mention a lecture by Megan Abbot. Here it is:
