Lilian Min

I'm not a diehard Pokemon fan. Honestly, at this point, I'm gonna go on a limb and say that I'm more of a Digimon fan, and if anyone wants to fight me about it, bring it on. But that doesn't mean that my childhood wasn't filled with the adventures of Ash and Pikachu, and I'll be damned if Nintendo isn't upping the nostalgia ante even more in advance of their Pokemon X and Y … [Read more...] about Chasing the Unicorn: Gotta Catch Em All

Every week, Lilian Min muses on reality + sci-fi/fantasy fiction narrative and fantastical world building in her column “Chasing the Unicorn.” If you haven't been on the Internet for a couple of, I don't know, years, then maybe you won't care that the saga of Walter White, aka the protagonist of the critically acclaimed, culturally pervasive "Breaking Bad," is donning his … [Read more...] about Chasing the Unicorn: Grey Matters

Every week, Lilian Min muses on reality + sci-fi/fantasy fiction narrative and fantastical world building in her column "Chasing the Unicorn." Recently in class, we were discussing an unusual phenomena: the explosion of tweets from Japan during a television screening of animation maestro Hayao Miyazaki's "Castle in the Sky." To which one person in my class actually voiced … [Read more...] about Chasing the Unicorn: We’ll Go To Very Distant Lands