This episode of The Imagination Desk features Maureen McHugh. Maureen is an author and narrative designer who has worked on some of the biggest transmedia stories and alternate reality games (ARGs) in the history of the medium including The Beast for Steven Spielberg's AI, I Love Bees for Microsoft's Halo franchise, Nine Inch Nails' Year One and Why So Serious? for Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight. Her novels include China Mountain Zhang, Half the Day is Night, Mission Child, and Nekropolis.