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By Colin Salt. A Pan Am Boeing 707-121 hanging out at Worldport in 1961 - a terminal built by Pan Am themselves. Copyright the John Proctor Collection and provided to Wikimedia Commons. Pan Am Airlines is a cultural icon of an airline that nonetheless went out of business decades prior to this article. This naturally brings up the question people ask about any firm or organization remotely similar: could it have been saved? The answer is "almost certainly not." I'm not goin

By Colin Salt. Hi, kids! Freddy Fazbear goes for a walk in the Five Nights At Freddy's 2 trailer (cropped off youtube) The most common story about the creation of Harry Turtledove's classic breakout hit Guns of the South goes like this. An author complained to Harry Turtledove about how her cover was botched and that it looked as anachronistic and out of place as “Robert E. Lee holding an Uzi”. A light bulb then clicked and the rest is history. I can understand covers (laugh

By Colin Salt. Bruce Begins. 1974 hardcover, picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Of the theory that behind every great 1970s movie is a...

By Colin Salt. Remember the nuclear bombing at the 2012 Olympics? (DVD cover from Amazon) From the moment nuclear weapons were revealed,...