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Oct 12, 202213 min read
Interview: Matthew Kresal
Questions from Gary Oswald This Interview is with Matthew Kresal, a regular SLP writer who can be found on twitter. Hello and thanks so...
Oct 7, 20223 min read
Review: Three Miles Down by Harry Turtledove
By Matthew Kresal Described by Publisher's Weekly as "The modern master of alternate history," Harry Turtledove has a significant...
Sep 23, 20227 min read
Apollo 6: The Saturn V's Crucible
By Matthew Kresal The eyes of many interested in space exploration have spent recent weeks focused once more upon NASA's Kennedy Space...
Aug 5, 20224 min read
On The Dangerous Edge Of (Sub)Genres
By Matthew Kresal "Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things." So says a line by Robert Browning that was a favorite of Graham...
Jul 22, 202225 min read
Panel Discussion: What is Plausibility?
By Alexander Wallace, Gary Oswald, Matthew Kresal, Colin Salt and Mark Ciccone Salt: Plausibility. That word has spawned a million...
Jul 8, 20227 min read
Roswellian Alternatives
By Matthew Kresal Seventy-five years ago today, the press office of the US Army Air Force's 509th Bomb group released a press statement....
Jun 24, 20224 min read
Doctor Who: Mind of The Hodiac
By Matthew Kresal The mid-1980s is not remembered fondly by fans of the BBC's Doctor Who. The series began a downward trajectory after...
Jun 10, 20223 min read
Midway, Alternate History, and the Matter of Interpretation
By Matthew Kresal Eighty years ago this week, one of the defining battles of the Second World War's Pacific theatre took place. The...
May 27, 20225 min read
Review: For All Mankind: Season Two
By Matthew Kresal In 2019, Apple TV+ brought viewers an alternate history vision of a space race that never ended. Created by Ronald D....
May 13, 20224 min read
Review: For All Mankind: Season One
By Matthew Kresal The 1960s Space Race, and what might have followed a landing on the Moon, has proven a rich seam for alternate history...
Apr 29, 20224 min read
Review: BBC Radio 4's What If?
By Matthew Kresal When he was interviewed on this blog earlier this year, Steven H Silver noted that the alternate history explosion he'd...
Apr 15, 20226 min read
Review: Titanic: Adventure Out of Time
By Matthew Kresal A hundred and ten years ago, a grand ocean liner of the Edwardian era was caught up in fate and circumstances on its...
Apr 1, 20224 min read
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Martian Menace
By Matthew Kresal “You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive.” "No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century,...
Mar 21, 20224 min read
Review: Larry Bond's Cauldron
By Matthew Kresal As I type these words at the start of March 2022, the war between Ukraine and Russia has entered its second week. As...
Mar 4, 20224 min read
Review: Do You Dream Of Terra-Two? By Temi Oh
By Matthew Kresal Space flight and alternate history, they're curious bedfellows, one might say. Both are born of dreams: one of what's...
Feb 18, 20224 min read
Review: Parting Shot By James Kunetka
By Matthew Kresal A Nazi atomic bomb. It's the lynchpin of numerous alternate history works for an Axis victory in World War II, from the...
Feb 4, 20223 min read
Review: The Kennedy Enterprise
By Matthew Kresal The 1960s: the decade politically dominated by the Kennedys in the United States and saw the debut of one of science...
Jan 21, 20225 min read
Spike's Alternate History: Nazi's Win WW2 (2011)
By Matthew Kresal As Matt Mitrovich noted recently on Twitter, alternate history primary residence continues to be literature. Something...
Dec 24, 20214 min read
Review: The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal
By Matthew Kresal The Moon, our nearest celestial neighbor, has long occupied a place in the human imagination. Before Apollo 11 landed...
Dec 19, 20211 min read
Matthew Kresal wins a Sidewise Award!
A short stories published by Sea Lion Press has won the short-form category of the Sidewise Awards, the annual prize for alternate...
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