Master World Builders

Rod Serling had quite an influence on me as a young fan of science-fiction.  I was eleven when I first discovered his show The Twilight Zone and became borderline obsessed with it.  I scoured the TV listings looking for Twilight Zone reruns and even started clipping out the plot synopses so I would know which episodes I had already seen.  I wanted to be Rod Serling; a mysterious, eloquent man in a black suit; an omniscient, foreboding guide to a dimension of imagination. As an eleven year-old, the last thing I thought about when watching TV shows was who wrote and produced them, so it wasn’t until adulthood that I understood just how amazing Serling was.  He wrote seventy of the...