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By Matthew Kresal. Image courtesy Big Finish website. The 1980s. A time of tensions related to all thing nuclear. A fear of nuclear weapons and nuclear war dramatized so ably in TV dramas such as Threads and The Day After . Also present was a fear of nuclear power, stemming out of the previous decade and heightened by events such as Chernobyl and the secrecy surrounding the industry as a whole, something brought to life in the classic BBC thriller Edge of Darkness . For a tim

By Charles E.P. Murphy. Two of the Overground lines at Gospel Oak station. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons, by Matt Brown . The London Overground is exactly what it sounds like, a regular train service like the Underground but not under the ground. Just like the Underground, it has expanded since it started, with branch lines across the Greater London area and its suburbs, spanning now from West Croydon up to Cheshunt, Stratford to Watford. Just like the Underground, it h

By Gary Oswald. Jessie wouldn't be so happy if Galyn Susman hadn't saved her characters models! Image courtesy Amazon marketplace. Toy Story 2 was the third feature film made by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures, a sequel to their first film Toy Story . It was an even bigger commercial and critical hit, one of the best selling and most praised animated films ever made and probably the film that truly made Pixar. Their ability to make not only multiple original

By Thomas Anderson. Real people ready to go versus the fictional aliens. Original US paperback cover for Worldwar book 3, image courtesy Amazon marketplace. Alternate History fiction (or some of it at least) can be considered a specialised form of historical fiction. In particular, if one has set a story in a timeline not many years after the Point of Divergence (POD) then in theory everyone one meets in such a story should be a person who existed in real history. Of course,