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Tales from Development Hell: Atuk
By Ryan Fleming. The original 1963 cover for the book; image courtesy Wikipedia, under fair use Hollywood is a very superstitious...


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Review - Dominion
Review by Paul Hynes The original hardcover, image courtesy Amazon There is a famous passage within Harlan Ellison’s much loved short...


Jul 29, 202418 min read
Paleofuture: Part 7. Blade Runner and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
By Tom Anderson. Blade Runner Spinner at the Peterson Museum in Los Angeles. This vehicle is in the SF section and not, alas, the...


Jul 24, 202414 min read
Paleofuture. Part 6: Emprise
By Tom Anderson. Picture courtesy Amazon. This entry in the Paleofuture article series, in which I look at classic works of science...


Jul 19, 202414 min read
Paleofuture Part 5. Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation
By Tom Anderson Artist impression of the planet Terminus. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Â Â In a previous article , I discussed...


Jul 8, 20248 min read
Alternate Space. For All Mankind: Part 4
By Andy Cooke Buzz Aldrin removing the passive seismometer from a compartment in the Lunar Lander, OTL. Picture courtesy Wikimedia...


Jul 5, 202413 min read
Paleofuture. Part 4: Ringworld
Review by Tom Anderson. Ringworld computer image. Geometrically correct according to Niven's dimensions. Picture courtesy Wikimedia...


Jul 1, 20244 min read
Gerry Anderson's Five Star Five
By Matthew Kresal The man who started it all, Gerry Anderson. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Mention the name Gerry Anderson and...


Jun 17, 20243 min read
Book Nook: Casca
Reviewed by Colin Salt. Picture courtesy Amazon. A guy who was a one-hit wonder musician in the 1960s later starts a long semi-AH fiction...


Jun 12, 202414 min read
Paleofuture. Part 3: Rendezvous with Rama
By Tom Anderson Arthur C Clarke, 1965. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. If you have not already read the first article in this series...


May 8, 20246 min read
Alternate Space For All Mankind, Part 2.
By Andy Cooke. The famous Earthrise photo taken from Apollo 8. Picture courtesy NASA (public domain). Part 1 of this article series can...

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Apr 19, 20246 min read
Book Nook: If It Had Happened Otherwise (Ed JC Squire, 1932[fn 1])
Review by Liam Connell A parlour game of the Might-Have-Beens. Picture courtesy Amazon. Alternate history, the historian EH Carr famously...


Apr 17, 20248 min read
Alternate Space. For All Mankind.
By Andy Cooke For All Mankind, from Apple TV. Picture courtesy Apple. Introduction We are living in a Golden Age for alternate history in...


Apr 10, 202413 min read
Book Nook: For Want of a Nail
Review by Ryan Fleming. There's no doubt. The title tells you what the book's about. Picture courtesy Amazon. Amongst the many...


Feb 23, 20249 min read
John le Carré, a Trade Secret. Part 3.
By Peter Randall This is where the magic happens now. MI6 headquarters. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Parts 1 and 2 of this series...


Feb 16, 202417 min read
Prequel Problems: Deny Thy Father (Star Trek)
By Tom Anderson Doesn't he look strange without the beard? Young Will Riker. Picture courtesy Star Trek Wiki. In my dedicated Star Trek...


Feb 14, 20247 min read
John le Carré, a Trade Secret. Part 2
By Peter Randall David Cornwell (John le Carré) when he moved from being a spook to writing about them. Picture courtesy Spiked. Part 1...


Feb 9, 202414 min read
An Alternate History of Horror XXI: Jump Scare
By Ryan Fleming. Nosferatu, 1922. One of the earliest classics of the genre. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. It seems appropriate for...


Feb 7, 20246 min read
John le Carré, A Trade Secret. Part 1
By Peter Randall. David Cornwell, better known as John le Carré, master of betrayal. Picture courtesy Associated Press. John le Carré was...


Feb 2, 20249 min read
Tales from Development Hell: I Am Legend
By Ryan Fleming Will Smith (left) in I Am Legend. Picture courtesy Wired. I’m afraid I have some sad news. This is the last article in...
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