Wired USA – September 2019

0 5 6 these fans of stories that feature dragons, demons, and time travel. In 2014, gamers incensed by demands for more diverse ...

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BEAT SIX       FALL 2016 I publish a short novel, Everything Belongs to the Future, which is barely disguised fan fiction ...

TECHNOLOGY ENABLED THE EXPLOSION OF FAN CULTURE AND TORE DOWN THE FENCES BETWEEN “CANON” AND FORMER SERFS IN THE FIELD OF THE IM ...

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INDECISION BUT WHEN YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE, YOU HAVE TO FACE THE AT NETFLIX, CARLA ENGELBRECHT CREATES TELEVISION SHOWS T ...

ANTONIA HITCHENS is a writer based in Los Angeles. This is her first story for wired. 0 6 2 E A R L I E R T H I S Y E A R , Carl ...

ENGELBRECHT’S WORK IN INTERACTIVE TV COULD— IF VIEWERS PLAY ALONG— CHART A COURSE FOR HOW NETFLIX STAYS RELEVANT AND DESIGNS EVE ...

“YOU’D SEE ONE PERSON GIVE THE SIDE-EYE TO SOMEONE ELSE WHEN THEY MADE A CERTAIN CHOICE. ONE WOMAN THREW THE REMOTE AT HER FIANC ...

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I N 2 0 1 6 , WH E N he was 22 years old, Clément Cas- telli was cast in Les Marseillais, “the most famous TV show” in France, h ...

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A P L U M E O F H A I R spills across Clément Castelli’s forehead as he points his iPhone camera at the bath- room mirror. He’s ...

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I wanted to see myself. I wanted to know how far I would go too. For a stretch during the winter, obsessively following these in ...

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One of the names, ROXANE, could have been clued as a reference to best-selling (and living) author Rox- ane Gay but instead defa ...