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By Matthew Kresal. In the beginning, there was the First Doctor. Available from Big Finish. Doctor Who turns 60 in November. After such a...

By Matthew Kresal In his recent series of articles, Ryan Fleming has been exploring the history of the horror genre and how it might have...

By Matthew Kresal On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on...

By Matthew Kresal This past October saw celebrations of the sixtieth anniversary of the James Bond film series. The release of Dr. No in...

By Matthew Kresal When Doctor Who returned to BBC One in 2005 after more than fifteen years (barring the occasional one-off), its modern...

By Matthew Kresal Alternate history is, while speculative, more often than not serious in tone. Whether in factual speculations or works...

By Matthew Kresal For a generation, the character of Batman was defined not by comics but by a cinematic vision. A cultural juggernaut on...

Questions from Gary Oswald This Interview is with Matthew Kresal, a regular SLP writer who can be found on twitter. Hello and thanks so...

By Matthew Kresal Described by Publisher's Weekly as "The modern master of alternate history," Harry Turtledove has a significant...

By Matthew Kresal The eyes of many interested in space exploration have spent recent weeks focused once more upon NASA's Kennedy Space...

By Matthew Kresal "Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things." So says a line by Robert Browning that was a favorite of Graham...

By Alexander Wallace, Gary Oswald, Matthew Kresal, Colin Salt and Mark Ciccone Salt: Plausibility. That word has spawned a million...

By Matthew Kresal Seventy-five years ago today, the press office of the US Army Air Force's 509th Bomb group released a press statement....

By Matthew Kresal The mid-1980s is not remembered fondly by fans of the BBC's Doctor Who. The series began a downward trajectory after...

By Matthew Kresal Eighty years ago this week, one of the defining battles of the Second World War's Pacific theatre took place. The...

By Matthew Kresal In 2019, Apple TV+ brought viewers an alternate history vision of a space race that never ended. Created by Ronald D....

By Matthew Kresal The 1960s Space Race, and what might have followed a landing on the Moon, has proven a rich seam for alternate history...

By Matthew Kresal When he was interviewed on this blog earlier this year, Steven H Silver noted that the alternate history explosion he'd...

By Matthew Kresal A hundred and ten years ago, a grand ocean liner of the Edwardian era was caught up in fate and circumstances on its...

By Matthew Kresal “You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive.” "No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century,...