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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,...

By Matthew Kresal As I type these words at the start of March 2022, the war between Ukraine and Russia has entered its second week. As...

By Matthew Kresal Space flight and alternate history, they're curious bedfellows, one might say. Both are born of dreams: one of what's...

By Matthew Kresal A Nazi atomic bomb. It's the lynchpin of numerous alternate history works for an Axis victory in World War II, from the...

By Matthew Kresal The 1960s: the decade politically dominated by the Kennedys in the United States and saw the debut of one of science...

By Matthew Kresal As Matt Mitrovich noted recently on Twitter, alternate history primary residence continues to be literature. Something...

By Matthew Kresal The Moon, our nearest celestial neighbor, has long occupied a place in the human imagination. Before Apollo 11 landed...

A short stories published by Sea Lion Press has won the short-form category of the Sidewise Awards, the annual prize for alternate...

By Matthew Kresal What would Doctor Who be without the Daleks? If they hadn't featured in the second-ever serial, broadcast in the winter...

By Matthew Kresal Some of the first exposures to alternate history people often come across are when popular franchises tell such tales,...

By Matthew Kresal The Elizabethan age of British history often is portrayed as something of a golden age. The Virgin Queen on the throne,...

By Matthew Kresal In 1967, Sean Connery departed the role of James Bond following a souring relationship with the franchise's producers,...

By Matthew Kresal As I type these words at the tail end of summer 2021, Jodie Whittaker has played the Doctor in the BBC's Doctor Who...

By Matthew Kresal People come to alternate history in different ways. For some, it's through historical moments and scenarios, wondering...

By Matthew Kresal There's a line said by Anthony Ainley's Master in the 1983 anniversary story The Five Doctors that's become something...

By Matthew Kresal Space flight, both human and robotic, offers up a rich vein for practitioners of alternate history to mine stories....

By Matthew Kresal In 1986, Doctor Who came back from an eighteen-month hiatus with an ambitious, season-long story arc. A season that saw...

By Matthew Kresal Whether we view alternate history as a setting or a genre in its own right, even a cursory overview of it shows...