For kids of the ’60s, it was a thrilling weekly ride and for adults revisiting it later, it became a time capsule of an era when television dared to mix earnest family drama with outlandish spectacle.

If you’ve never seen Lost in Space, it was a sci-fi series from the 1960s about a family stranded in space, trying to survive and find their way home. The show had robots, aliens, and lots of crazy ...

The best piece of writing advice I’d ever gotten came from an MFA adviser who tossed my packet of moody, atmospheric prose onto the table and said, “You know, things can happen in a story.” I think ...