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Dec 10, 20215 min read
Doctor Who Unbound: Masters Of War
By Matthew Kresal What would Doctor Who be without the Daleks? If they hadn't featured in the second-ever serial, broadcast in the winter...
Nov 26, 20215 min read
I, Alastair & The Inferno Universe
By Matthew Kresal Some of the first exposures to alternate history people often come across are when popular franchises tell such tales,...
Nov 12, 20215 min read
Doctor Who Unbound: A Storm Of Angels
By Matthew Kresal The Elizabethan age of British history often is portrayed as something of a golden age. The Virgin Queen on the throne,...
Oct 29, 20216 min read
On Her Majesty's Secret Service ‘67
By Matthew Kresal In 1967, Sean Connery departed the role of James Bond following a souring relationship with the franchise's producers,...
Oct 15, 20214 min read
Doctor Who Unbound: Exile
By Matthew Kresal As I type these words at the tail end of summer 2021, Jodie Whittaker has played the Doctor in the BBC's Doctor Who...
Oct 1, 20213 min read
Batman: Gotham By Gaslight Film Review
By Matthew Kresal People come to alternate history in different ways. For some, it's through historical moments and scenarios, wondering...
Sep 17, 20215 min read
Doctor Who Unbound: Deadline
By Matthew Kresal There's a line said by Anthony Ainley's Master in the 1983 anniversary story The Five Doctors that's become something...
Sep 3, 20214 min read
Review: The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal
By Matthew Kresal Space flight, both human and robotic, offers up a rich vein for practitioners of alternate history to mine stories....
Aug 20, 20215 min read
Doctor Who Unbound: He Jests At Scars...
By Matthew Kresal In 1986, Doctor Who came back from an eighteen-month hiatus with an ambitious, season-long story arc. A season that saw...
Aug 6, 20214 min read
The New Dinosaurs
By Matthew Kresal Whether we view alternate history as a setting or a genre in its own right, even a cursory overview of it shows...
Jul 23, 20215 min read
Doctor Who Unbound: Full Fathom Five
By Matthew Kresal The late Terrance Dicks, script editor of Doctor Who from 1969-74 and who perhaps wrote for more incarnations of the...
Jul 9, 20214 min read
Review: Timequest
By Matthew Kresal The 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy has become one of those touchstone events of the 20th century....
Jun 25, 20216 min read
Doctor Who Unbound: Sympathy For The Devil
By Matthew Kresal Doctor Who's seventh season, aired in the opening months of 1970, would prove to be a decisive one for the history of...
Jun 11, 20213 min read
Review: Last Flight of the Arrow
By Matthew Kresal The Avro Arrow is one of those incredible what-if stories to come out of the Cold War. A Canadian-built fighter for the...
May 28, 20214 min read
Doctor Who Unbound: Auld Mortality
By Matthew Kresal "What if?" It's a powerful question, one that drives much of alternate history and fiction writing in general. It's...
May 14, 20214 min read
Countdown (1968): Gemini To The Moon
By Matthew Kresal The 1960s Space Race saw the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in an ever-evolving game of one-upmanship. One...
Apr 30, 20216 min read
Doctor Who: The Doomsday Contract
By Matthew Kresal Doctor Who's seventeenth season, aired across autumn 1979 and early 1980, has become remembered primarily for being the...
Apr 16, 20217 min read
Titanic Alternatives
By Matthew Kresal Titanic. It's a name that conjures up images. The grand ocean liner of the Edwardian era caught up in fate and...
Apr 2, 20217 min read
Doctor Who: Return of the Cybermen
By Matthew Kresal In 1975, Tom Baker concluded his first season of adventures as the Fourth Doctor in the BBC's long-running series...
Mar 19, 20215 min read
The Alternate History of Bridgerton
By Matthew Kresal If you follow pop culture in the slightest or merely have a Netflix account, you've very likely heard of Bridgerton....
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