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By Matthew Kresal For a generation, the character of Batman was defined not by comics but by a cinematic vision. A cultural juggernaut on...

Questions from Gary Oswald This Interview is with Matthew Kresal, a regular SLP writer who can be found on twitter. Hello and thanks so...

By Matthew Kresal Described by Publisher's Weekly as "The modern master of alternate history," Harry Turtledove has a significant...

By Matthew Kresal The eyes of many interested in space exploration have spent recent weeks focused once more upon NASA's Kennedy Space...

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...

By Alexander Wallace, Gary Oswald, Matthew Kresal, Colin Salt and Mark Ciccone Salt: Plausibility. That word has spawned a million...

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....

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...

By Matthew Kresal Eighty years ago this week, one of the defining battles of the Second World War's Pacific theatre took place. The...

By Matthew Kresal In 2019, Apple TV+ brought viewers an alternate history vision of a space race that never ended. Created by Ronald D....

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...

By Matthew Kresal When he was interviewed on this blog earlier this year, Steven H Silver noted that the alternate history explosion he'd...

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...

By Matthew Kresal “You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive.” "No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century,...

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...

By Matthew Kresal Space flight and alternate history, they're curious bedfellows, one might say. Both are born of dreams: one of what's...

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...

By Matthew Kresal The 1960s: the decade politically dominated by the Kennedys in the United States and saw the debut of one of science...

By Matthew Kresal As Matt Mitrovich noted recently on Twitter, alternate history primary residence continues to be literature. Something...

By Matthew Kresal The Moon, our nearest celestial neighbor, has long occupied a place in the human imagination. Before Apollo 11 landed...