Alternate History and Stargate. Part 6
By Tom Anderson From left: Debbie Reynolds (actress), Richard Nixon (President), Carrie Fisher (actress), Pat Nixon (First Lady). None of...
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Oct 6, 20239 min read
Writing AH. Anachronisms Part 6: War! Huh! What is it named for?
By Tom Anderson French military cemetery in Verdun; The Great War for Civilisation 1914-1919. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Ask...
Sep 14, 202310 min read
Alternate History and Stargate. Part 5
By Tom Anderson Asgard Transporter, Second Life. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. When we last left this series , I had approached the...
Aug 28, 202310 min read
Alternate History and Stargate. Part 4
By Tom Anderson What this team needs is a fashion designer. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Last time on this series , we had reached...
Aug 16, 202312 min read
Writing AH. Anachronisms Part 5: Fly Me to the Moon
By Tom Anderson A long way to go. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. My fellow SLP writer Andy Cooke has been known to opine his...
Aug 10, 20237 min read
Alternate History and Stargate. Part 2
By Tom Anderson Interest in reviving the franchise? According to Digital Spy, maybe. Picture courtesy Digital Spy. In my previous...
Jul 31, 202317 min read
Alternate History and Stargate. Part 1.
By Tom Anderson. The eponymous Stargate, from the 1994 film. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. The Stargate franchise debuted in 1994...
Jul 17, 202315 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...
Jun 21, 20238 min read
Alternate History and Terry Pratchett. Part 6: Strata
By Tom Anderson Strata by Terry Pratchett. In my article series looking at the use of Alternate History (AH) tropes and concepts by Terry...
May 31, 20239 min read
Alternate History and Terry Pratchett. Part 5: Jingo
By Tom Anderson Of course there was a newspaper called Jingo. Curiously, American rather than British. Picture courtesy Wikimedia...
May 24, 202315 min read
Alternate History and Terry Pratchett. Part 4: Lords and Ladies.
By Tom Anderson. They are not our friends. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. In the next part of my look at Terry Pratchett’s use of...
May 13, 20236 min read
Writing AH: Anachronisms, Part 2.
By Tom Anderson. Good! Great! Awesome! Outstanding! Amazing! Awful, amusing, and artificial. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. In a...
May 10, 202310 min read
Alternate History and Terry Pratchett, Part 3: Small Gods
By Tom Anderson The Turtle Moves; An Ouroboros encircling disc carried by four elephants atop a great turtle. Wood engraving after an...
Apr 26, 202310 min read
Alternate History and Terry Pratchett: Mort
By Thomas Anderson. A fan favourite. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. In my previous article, we looked at how Terry Pratchett uses...
Apr 10, 202311 min read
Writing AH: Anachronisms
By Tom Anderson "My God, Sir, I've lost my leg." "My God, Sir, if you had a GPS tracker device fitted to it, you'd never lose it."...
Mar 28, 202321 min read
Alternate History in Star Trek Part 27: TNG Spinoffs of the Movie Era
By Tom Anderson Last time we looked at Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS) non-canon spinoffs, such as comics and novels, which were...
Mar 13, 202313 min read
Alternate History in Star Trek Part 26: TOS Spinoffs of the Late Nineties
By Tom Anderson In the second half of the 1990s, the Star Trek franchise was now represented on-screen by the TV series “Star Trek: Deep...
Mar 8, 20232 min read
Microfiction from the SLP Community: Part 4
By Tom Anderson, Monroe Templeton, Phillip Clarke and Wm. Garrett Cothran In the previous article in this series, we looked at the idea...
Feb 27, 202314 min read
Alternate History in Star Trek Part 25: Early Voyager spinoffs
By Tom Anderson Last time on this article series, I discussed how Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (DS9) spinoff novels and comics in the...
Feb 13, 202315 min read
Alternate History in Star Trek Part 24: DS9 Spinoffs ask “WHAT YEAR IS IT?”
By Tom Anderson In this latest segment of my never-ending rundown of the Star Trek franchise (with a particular focus on its use of...
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