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Aug 24, 20203 min read
Kirov review
By Colin Salt The Kirov series is one of the most out-there works of alternate history I’ve read, and possibly the most. I mean this in a...
Feb 15, 20204 min read
The Draka Series In Hindsight
By Colin Salt After hearing about them for so long, I felt I had to read the actual Draka books for myself. Remembering their reputation...
Aug 8, 20193 min read
Review: Storm Front, by Chris Nuttall
By Colin Salt Chris Nuttall is a prolific writer of various genres, including alternate history. In Storm Front, the opening of a series,...
May 9, 20194 min read
Sam Bowie: Victim of Circumstance
By Colin Salt Success or failure? Circumstance and point of view can define either - in one timeline, a sportsman or woman can be deemed...
Apr 4, 20194 min read
Boom Boom Goes The Tank: Plotnukes And Plotting
By Colin Salt The time has come to address one of the most central issues, and potentially the most central issue of World War III...
Mar 21, 20193 min read
Boom Boom Goes the Tank: The Circle Trigons
By Colin Salt One amusing-in-hindsight Cold War footnote and object of my fascination has been the Circle Trigon Aggressor Force, used by...
Mar 7, 20194 min read
Boom Boom Goes The Tank: The Time Periods of World War III
By Colin Salt World War III fiction in written form (and sometimes in wargames too) tends to cluster into two sizable segments. The first...
Feb 21, 20192 min read
The Promise and the Peril of the Timeline format
By Colin Salt One of the most common writing formats for internet alternate history is the timeline format, or “TL” for short. TL will be...
Feb 21, 20192 min read
Boom Boom Goes The Tank: World War III Fiction
By Colin Salt Technothrillers and World War III novels are closely linked. But there’s still some big differences between them. If...
Feb 7, 20195 min read
Boom Boom Goes the Tank: A Brief Chronology of The Technothriller
By Colin Salt So with my strange love-hate relationship with World War III fiction and technothrillers in general, I should start this...
May 6, 20183 min read
Review: The Red Effect
By Colin Salt The Red Effect, Harvey Black I’ve read too many Red Storm Rising-style World War III stories for my own good. Perhaps it’s...
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