Sean Munger

Historic Painting: “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” by John Forrest, 2012.

This picture, intended to raise awareness of global warming, is a haunting visualization of its implications.

The book(s) I’m working on: “Faraway Star” and “Wild Among the Moons.”

Here's a brief introduction to the book(s) I'm working on, a very old science fiction concept whose time may finally have come.

The ship that sank a neighborhood: the General Slocum disaster.

My secret profession: Am I actually a CIA agent?

Anyone who publicly refutes paranoid conspiracy theories becomes a target of the paranoiacs themselves.

Interiors: Classroom in a school in Palamuse, rural Estonia, circa 1890s.

This classroom is where a famous Estonian novelist went to school and from which he drew much of his inspiration.

Not a “good” bad movie: Revisiting “The Room” and its terrible human failings.

This film is dead on a human level, and horribly depressing.

Historic Photo: First class dining room of the ocean liner Grosser Kurfürst, 1905.

See how the rich dined as they made their way across the Atlantic in the first decade of the 20th century.