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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,...

By Colin Salt. Major Ivan Hirst (driver's seat) of the British Army promotes the post-war Volkswagen factory. Could British ownership...

By Colin Salt. A prototype railcar designed to transport a Peacekeeper missile around the country in the event of possible apocalypse....

By Colin Salt   A Buccaneer in flight for the South African Air Force in the 1980s - when the jet was intended to deliver nuclear weapons. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons.   It is an ironic coincidence that two of the African countries with the most substantial nuclear weapons programs existed on different ends of the continent and could not have been farther apart in terms of effectiveness. Beginning with the success, it's well known among atomic scholars that apartheid S

By Colin Salt Ouch! The Dallas Cowboys tackle poor Arian Foster in a 2010 match against the Houston Texans, picture courtesy Wikimedia...

Reviewed by Colin Salt. Picture courtesy Amazon. A guy who was a one-hit wonder musician in the 1960s later starts a long semi-AH fiction...

By Colin Salt. Brigadier General Norvell Coots, commander Regional Health Command Europe. Potentially a Grand Colonel. Picture courtesy...

By Colin Salt The Yak-40. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Soviet airliners have an understandably poor reputation and record. It’s...

Reviewed by Colin Salt. It's got swastikas. What are the odds it's an Axis-victory AH? Picture courtesy Amazon. Harry Turtledove is an...

By Colin Salt What is Sports Alternate History? Its not as easy to pinpoint as we might expect. Let's take a look at one specific movie: Robert Redford's The Natural . It's a very interesting case in that: A - It's far and away the most successful work of Sports Alternate History in terms of footprint and mainstream success; B - Its status as alternate history is very clear cut when you go through a series of box-checking factors; and C - Said status as alternate history

By Colin Salt Colin Salt is the author of The Smithtown Unit Characterisation in alternate history fiction can take forms both familiar...

By Colin Salt I’m calling this an author commentary instead of an author review. I really don’t feel like authors should “review” their...

Reviewed by Colin Salt Swastika. Check. Blood red splash. Check. Black cover. Check. It's all a bit predictable. The Seventh Secret by...

By Colin Salt Even by the standards of a series that was never the best at conventional storytelling (to put it mildly) to begin with,...

By Colin Salt It's no secret that works change from start to end. And those changes can hugely effect how that work is perceived, how the...

By Colin Salt The Green Bay Packers in their throwback navy blue uniforms in 2010. Photo by Mike Morbeck and shared under the CC BY-SA 2.0 licence. Green Bay, Wisconsin, has a population of only around 100,000 people. Yet it somehow has a National Football League team that has thrived throughout the years. In the not-too-distant past, there was a time when Green Bay had an NFL franchise play in it but Los Angeles did not. The Packers are an oddball in everything from location

By Colin Salt This article is adapted from a Fuldapocalypse Post. Generally speaking, alternate history questions about how some creative...