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Jul 2918 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 2414 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 1914 min read

Paleofuture Part 5. Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation

By Tom Anderson Artist impression of the planet Terminus. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. In a previous article , I discussed...

Jul 88 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 513 min read

Paleofuture. Part 4: Ringworld

Review by Tom Anderson. Ringworld computer image. Geometrically correct according to Niven's dimensions. Picture courtesy Wikimedia...

Jul 14 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 173 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 1214 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 86 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...

Apr 196 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 178 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 1013 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 239 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 1617 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 147 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 914 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 76 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 29 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...

Jan 3115 min read

Non-Trek Worldbuilding. Part 3: Red Dwarf

By Tom Anderson The picture editor is an idiot. That's an abutilon red dwarf, which has nothing to do with this article. Picture courtesy...

Jan 1210 min read

Tales From Development Hell: The Hook

By Ryan Fleming. A publicity poster for On The Waterfront. It could equally have been used for The Hook. Picture courtesy Wikimedia...

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