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For Want of a Giant Mechbear: The (Alternate?) History of Mascot Horror
By Colin Salt. Hi, kids! Freddy Fazbear goes for a walk in the Five Nights At Freddy's 2 trailer (cropped off youtube) The most common story about the creation of Harry Turtledove's classic breakout hit Guns of the South goes like this. An author complained to Harry Turtledove about how her cover was botched and that it looked as anachronistic and out of place as “Robert E. Lee holding an Uzi”. A light bulb then clicked and the rest is history. I can understand covers (laugh
1 hour ago3 min read


Prequel Problems: Forever and a Day (James Bond)
By Thomas Anderson. Cover to the book, picture courtesy Amazon. This is the first article I’ve penned in my “Prequel Problems” series for quite a while, so it may be worth briefly recapping the purpose and goal behind these articles. As a voracious reader growing up, I was exposed to a number of examples of fiction (mostly children’s fiction) in which an author had to manage a fictional setting and character histories while releasing books in an anachronic order. The Chronicl
3 days ago11 min read


Serial Sunday: The Galton Horror IV
By Charles E.P. Murphy The spacesuit was watching them now. What was it thinking behind that screen? Could anyone ever know? “I won’t...
5 days ago6 min read


Africa During the Scramble – Making a Fiction Real
By Gary Oswald. A 1905 postcard from Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), the capital of Portuguese Mozambique... which was a lot more recent a...
Oct 1014 min read
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