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Jul 7, 20232 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...
Jun 26, 20235 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 22, 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 14, 20233 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 8, 20234 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...
May 17, 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...
Mar 24, 20233 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...
Dec 16, 20224 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...
Nov 18, 20227 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 4, 20223 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...
Oct 21, 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 7, 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...
Aug 12, 20222 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...
Jul 26, 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...
Jun 22, 20223 min read
Review: The Crossing
By Alex Wallace It can feel like the ISOT (a trope named after Island in the Sea of Time by S.M. Sterling wherein people from one time...
Jun 15, 20224 min read
Review: Sword, Stone and Table (edited by Swapna Krishna & Jenn Northington)
By Jared Kavanagh The Arthurian legendarium is one of the most extensive corpuses in literature, having been told and retold more times...
May 27, 20225 min read
Review: For All Mankind: Season Two
By Matthew Kresal In 2019, Apple TV+ brought viewers an alternate history vision of a space race that never ended. Created by Ronald D....
May 13, 20224 min read
Review: For All Mankind: Season One
By Matthew Kresal The 1960s Space Race, and what might have followed a landing on the Moon, has proven a rich seam for alternate history...
Apr 29, 20224 min read
Review: BBC Radio 4's What If?
By Matthew Kresal When he was interviewed on this blog earlier this year, Steven H Silver noted that the alternate history explosion he'd...
Apr 18, 20223 min read
Review: Everfair
By Gary Oswald Everfair by Nisi Shawl, is a book that I knew I had to buy as soon as I saw the concept. Which is 'what if the Congo Free...
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