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Aug 18, 202012 min read
Scot Free
By Ryan Fleming On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...
Jul 11, 202013 min read
Popular Culture Without E.T.
By Ryan Fleming Nearly four decades after it was first released E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial retains a special place in the memories of not...
Jun 15, 202014 min read
These Are the Different Voyages...
By Ryan Fleming In 1966 US television viewers were first introduced to Star Trek. The voyages of the starship Enterprise on her five-year...
Feb 14, 202010 min read
Who Killed the Western?
By Ryan Fleming 1969. A significant year in many respects. The year of the first manned Moon landing, the year of Woodstock, the year of...
Jan 29, 20208 min read
Bond. Well, nearly...
By Ryan Fleming Sometimes an actor can become as famous for the roles they did not get as the ones they did. There are many such examples...
Jan 9, 20209 min read
IN Bond - but not AS Bond
By Ryan Fleming Bond. Not as Bond. In these articles I have mentioned how nothing seemed to attract the eye of the producers of the Bond...
Dec 26, 201910 min read
The Many Faces of James Bond (Part 3)
By Ryan Fleming Christmas. Merry Christmas. Somehow a film series about an alcoholic, gambling, womanising assassin became a staple of...
Dec 13, 201910 min read
The Many Faces of James Bond (Part 2)
By Ryan Fleming “Bond. Jimmy Bond.” Doesn’t have quite the same ring to it as the version of the line we got historically, does it? It...
Nov 28, 20199 min read
The Many Faces of James Bond (Part 1)
By Ryan Fleming "Bond. James Bond.” With that line one of the most enduring characters in film history was introduced to audiences in...
Nov 24, 20197 min read
Vignette Sunday: Redistribution
By Ryan Fleming On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write vignettes on a...
Nov 14, 20196 min read
Popular Culture without... Jaws
By Ryan Fleming When you look at the highest grossing films in any given year this decade, you are greeted with a barrage of big-budget...
Oct 31, 20196 min read
Popular Culture without... Ed Gein
By Ryan Fleming There are many different ways real life can influence our popular culture. Real events can be adapted into fictionalised...
Jul 11, 20197 min read
Ryan's Reviews - Conquistador by S M Stirling
By Ryan Fleming How much is alternate history just a subgenre of science fiction? For a lot of the history of the genre it seemed as...
Jul 4, 201912 min read
Popular Culture Without... The Simpsons
By Ryan Fleming "Spare me the tiresome antics of the Simpson family!" - C. Montgomery Burns What would the popular culture landscape look...
Jun 27, 20198 min read
Ryan's Reviews - How Few Remain, by Harry Turtledove
By Ryan Fleming The two most widely used ideas in alternate history are that of Nazi Germany emerging as a victor from the Second World...
Jun 20, 201911 min read
Alternate Technologies - A World Without CDs
By Ryan Fleming How might technology have developed in the latter decades of the twentieth century without the ubiquitous compact disc?...
Jun 13, 20199 min read
Ryan's reviews: Back in the USSA by Eugene Byrne and Kim Newman
By Ryan Fleming In some respects, alternate history is an examination of irony. There are many examples of serious alternate history...
Jun 6, 20198 min read
Popular Culture without... Kolchak: The Night Stalker
By Ryan Fleming Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, The Sopranos, The X-Files. None of these may have existed were...
May 30, 201910 min read
Ryan's Reviews: The Two Georges, by Harry Turtledove and Richard Dreyfuss
By Ryan Fleming The two most common alternate history settings are ones based on World War II and the American Civil War. Bringing up a...
May 23, 201910 min read
Popular Culture Without... Star Wars
By Ryan Fleming On the 25th of May 1977 Star Wars was released in the United States, it was a film almost every studio in Hollywood had...
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