Alternate History in Star Trek part 5: Early TOS Pocket Books novels
By Tom Anderson Aside note: in between writing part 4 and this article, Star Trek: Picard returned and featured...a time travel and...
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Mar 28, 202218 min read
Alternate History in Star Trek, part 4: Early Novels, the TOS Movies and More Comics
By Tom Anderson In a previous article in this series, I discussed AH tropes in the non-canon comics spinoffs from Star Trek “The Original...
Mar 14, 202212 min read
Alternate History in Star Trek, Part 3: The Animated Series and TOS comics
By Tom Anderson In this continuation of my ‘Alternate History (AH) in Star Trek’ article series, I’ll be looking at the first official...
Feb 28, 202222 min read
Alternate History in Star Trek, Part 2: The Original Series
By Tom Anderson As I discussed in my Introduction to this article series, my intention is to cover not only the examples of Alternate...
Feb 14, 20229 min read
Alternate History in Star Trek: Introduction
By Tom Anderson In the course of me writing articles for the SLP frontpage, Star Trek is a topic that has recurred many times. This...
Jan 31, 202220 min read
Prequel Problems: Jack Campbell’s Pillars of Reality
By Tom Anderson In a previous Prequel Problems article, I discussed Jack Campbell’s Lost Fleet series and its spinoffs, including a...
Jan 17, 202215 min read
Prequel Problems: Rogue One
By Tom Anderson It is fair to say that, since Disney acquired Star Wars in 2012, the content that has been produced has been met with a...
Jan 3, 202216 min read
Prequel Problems: Michael Stackpole, The Continuity Strikes Back
By Tom Anderson Some time ago, I penned (keyboard-ed?) a series of articles looking at the old Star Wars Expanded Universe of (mostly)...
Dec 20, 202119 min read
Fiction Friction: Fantasy Counterpart Cultures, Part 2
By Tom Anderson In this article’s predecessor, I discussed a number of examples of how fantasy authors have taken inspiration from the...
Dec 6, 202119 min read
Fiction Friction: Fantasy Counterpart Cultures, Part 1
By Tom Anderson In my most recent article, I discussed fantasy authors’ ideas for magical stand-ins for technology. This article is the...
Nov 22, 202110 min read
Fiction Friction: Analogous and Alternative Technology in Fantasy Works
By Tom Anderson One difficulty of writing works of fiction set in our own world, which is arguably common to all genres but particularly...
Nov 8, 202112 min read
Fiction Friction: Alternatives to Rebooting
By Tom Anderson In the last three articles I’ve discussed the concept of the franchise reboot (itself somewhat hard to define) and the...
Oct 25, 20217 min read
Fiction Friction: When Reboots End With The Beginning
By Tom Anderson In this third article on the subject of reboots and allied forms of fiction, I’ll be discussing a phenomenon which is not...
Oct 11, 202112 min read
Fiction Friction: But What If Your Reboot Sucks?
By Tom Anderson “It sucks” is one of America’s best contributions to the English language, isn’t it? I remember when I was young I didn’t...
Sep 27, 202111 min read
Fiction Friction: Reboots, Remakes and Reimaginings
By Tom Anderson Welcome to the first in an indeterminate series of articles in which I’ll be discussing the challenges and problems of,...
Sep 14, 202112 min read
Fiction Friction: The Transatlantic Divide in Fantasy Covers
By Tom Anderson In today’s globalised world™ of Amazon and ebooks and the like, it is easy to forget that, not so many years ago, finding...
Aug 30, 202110 min read
Fiction Friction: Absurd Blurbs and the Riftwar Cycle
By Tom Anderson Regardless of the aphorism that we should not judge a book by its cover, we invariably do. This is not terribly fair on...
Aug 16, 202112 min read
Fiction Friction: Box Office Bombshells
By Tom Anderson In this article, I want to discuss a strange paradox I have encountered when I compare my childhood memories of the world...
Aug 2, 202114 min read
Fiction Friction: The Fake Trilogy
By Thomas Anderson The trilogy, as a model for media, is so omnipresent in the modern world that we scarcely stop to notice it anymore....
Jul 19, 202114 min read
Prequel Problems: Star Trek Double Helix
By Thomas Anderson Yes, it’s yet another Prequel Problems article about Star Trek; this setting, with its several well-defined eras and...
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