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Comics Part 3: Judge Meant - The Early Unpublished Dredds
By Charles EP Murphy Comic's favourite fascist in an iconic moment. Picture courtesy GamesRadar+. He spent fifteen years in the academy –...
Aug 7, 20238 min read


60 Years of Doctor Who. Part 4: The Fourth Doctor
By Matthew Kresal Harry, Sarah, and Tom Baker. The Iconic Doctor Who. In my opinion. Picture courtesy Big Finish. Ask a Doctor Who fan...
Aug 4, 20238 min read


Alternate History of Horror. Part XIII: Bad Karma
By Ryan Fleming Sales of chainsaws rose after the film. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. As the 1960s became the 1970s, US horror...
Jul 28, 202314 min read


Comic Corner: Captain Britain by Alan Moore and Alan Davis
Towards an Earth that is not Earth. Alternate realities - don't you just love them. Written in the early 1980s, this series, along with...
Jul 25, 20235 min read


Book Nook: Smithtown Unit - an Author Commentary
By Colin Salt I’m calling this an author commentary instead of an author review. I really don’t feel like authors should “review” their...
Jul 24, 20232 min read


Prequel Problems: My Brother's Keeper (Star Trek)
By Tom Anderson Not a red shirt in sight at the completion of construction of the Enterprise. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. In part...
Jul 17, 202315 min read


Book Nook: Ten Years Beyond Baker Street
Why, yes. My copy is getting a bit dog-eared. How can you tell? Ten Years Beyond Baker Street, by Cay Van Ash The premise of this story...
Jul 7, 20232 min read


Comic Corner: Master of Kung Fu
Review by David Flin There's a huge amount of symbolism going on here. Read the issue to find out what it's all about. No, not comic as...
Jun 26, 20235 min read


Book Nook: Ten Years Later
Review By Peter Randall Kherson Regional Cardiological Centre after Russian shelling in the night on 23 March 2023. According to the...
Jun 22, 20235 min read


Book Nook: The Seventh Secret
Reviewed by Colin Salt Swastika. Check. Blood red splash. Check. Black cover. Check. It's all a bit predictable. The Seventh Secret by...
Jun 14, 20233 min read


The Inconstant 007. Part 3.
By Tom Colton Sylvia Trench, originator of the "Bond, James Bond" introduction. Picture Courtesy Screenmusings. In the previous two...
Jun 8, 20234 min read


Book Nook: Drake's Drum
By Nicholas Sumner, Published by SLP. This time, we’ll be reviewing the book through an interview with the author, Nicholas Sumner. The...
May 17, 20234 min read


Review: Shambling Towards Hiroshima
By Matthew Kresal In his recent series of articles, Ryan Fleming has been exploring the history of the horror genre and how it might have...
Mar 24, 20233 min read


Review: The Forgotten Bond Film - Moonraker (1956)
By Matthew Kresal This past October saw celebrations of the sixtieth anniversary of the James Bond film series. The release of Dr. No in...
Dec 16, 20224 min read


Doctor Who Unbound: Doctor of War
By Matthew Kresal When Doctor Who returned to BBC One in 2005 after more than fifteen years (barring the occasional one-off), its modern...
Nov 18, 20227 min read


Review: Archive on 4 - Gareth Gwynn's Alternative Archive
By Matthew Kresal Alternate history is, while speculative, more often than not serious in tone. Whether in factual speculations or works...
Nov 4, 20223 min read


Review: Batman '89
By Matthew Kresal For a generation, the character of Batman was defined not by comics but by a cinematic vision. A cultural juggernaut on...
Oct 21, 20223 min read


Review: Three Miles Down by Harry Turtledove
By Matthew Kresal Described by Publisher's Weekly as "The modern master of alternate history," Harry Turtledove has a significant...
Oct 7, 20223 min read


Review: Civilizations
By Alex Wallace It always interests me, if with some trepidation, whenever someone of a literary bent attempts alternate history. At...
Aug 12, 20222 min read


Review: The Gamekeeper's Night Dog
By Colin Salt Alternate history writers have frequently obsessed over some tangible thing. In many cases, it's been airships. In the The...
Jul 26, 20222 min read
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