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Mar 5, 20213 min read
Review: Rising Sun Victorious
By Matthew Kresal When it comes to alternate histories of the Second World War, there seems to be a strong focus on Nazi Germany....
Feb 19, 20213 min read
Review: The Luna Missile Crisis
By Matthew Kresal Alternate history works seem to come in two varieties. In the first, authors see it as a genre, engaging in...
Feb 5, 20214 min read
Review: The Shape of Things to Come
By Matthew Kresal Future history and alternate history come hand in hand. Often with the former becoming the latter as events overtake...
Jan 22, 20213 min read
Review: The Greening of Mars
By Matthew Kresal Mars has called to generations of space enthusiasts, a crimson fleece for would-be astronauts. Visions of how we might...
Jan 8, 20213 min read
Review: Very British Dystopias
By Matthew Kresal When dealing with sub-genres, there can often be a thin line between them. Take alternate history, dystopian fiction,...
Dec 27, 20209 min read
Doctor Who: The Lost Season 27
By Matthew Kresal On the sixth of December 1989, viewers of BBC One watched the third and final episode of the Doctor Who serial...
Dec 11, 20205 min read
Apollo Goes To Venus: The Manned Venus Flyby
By Matthew Kresal Halloween 1973. A Saturn V rocket sits on Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. On top of it, three...
Nov 27, 20203 min read
Review: Alternate Presidents
By Matthew Kresal Every four years, American voters get the chance to elect a new President. The choices voters, and sometimes the House...
Nov 2, 20209 min read
Doctor Who: The Luxor Alternative
By Matthew Kresal In 1963, the BBC’s Doctor Who was simply another new television series looking for an audience. With its series debut...
Oct 14, 20206 min read
“Walk With Me”: The Alternate History of The West Wing
By Matthew Kresal Any serious discussion of TV in the last twenty years or so will likely include The West Wing. Aaron Sorkin's drama...
Oct 5, 20203 min read
Review: Voyage (Radio Series)
By Matthew Kresel Alternate history truly has it's main home on the printed page. True, there have been AH movies and TV shows, but such...
Sep 30, 20203 min read
Review: All Our Tomorrows
By Matthew Kresal Alternate history offers us windows into worlds as they might have been. Arguably, this is a function of all fiction,...
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