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Review: Doctor Who: Genesis of the Cybermen
By Matthew Kresal. Cover of Genesis of the Cybermen, picture courtesy Big Finish From their first appearance in 1966’s The Tenth Planet ,...
4 days ago7 min read


Tales from Development Hell: Ridley Scott's Dune
By Ryan Fleming Ridley Scott doing a Q&A in 2015, picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. There have been many attempts to adapt Frank...
Mar 2510 min read


Review: Doctor Who: Operation Werewolf
By Matthew Kresal Cover of Operation Werewolf, from Big Finish The Second World War has loomed large over western popular culture ever...
Mar 147 min read


Review: Lone Star Reloaded
Review by Gary Oswald. The cover for the collected first half of Lone Star Reloaded. Cover courtesy Amazon. Quantum Leap has a lot to...
Mar 79 min read


Review: The Plot Against America
Review by Jared Kavanagh. Current cover for Vintage's reprint; cover courtesy Amazon. There are plenty of authors who write alternate...
Feb 214 min read


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...
Feb 189 min read


Review - Dominion
Review by Paul Hynes The original hardcover, image courtesy Amazon There is a famous passage within Harlan Ellison’s much loved short...
Feb 410 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 29, 202418 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 24, 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 19, 202414 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 8, 20248 min read


Paleofuture. Part 4: Ringworld
Review by Tom Anderson. Ringworld computer image. Geometrically correct according to Niven's dimensions. Picture courtesy Wikimedia...
Jul 5, 202413 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...
Jul 1, 20244 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 17, 20243 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...
Jun 12, 202414 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...
May 8, 20246 min read

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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 19, 20246 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 17, 20248 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...
Apr 10, 202413 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 23, 20249 min read
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