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By Matthew Kresal The Avro Arrow is one of those incredible what-if stories to come out of the Cold War. A Canadian-built fighter for the...

By Matthew Kresal "What if?" It's a powerful question, one that drives much of alternate history and fiction writing in general. It's...

By Matthew Kresal The 1960s Space Race saw the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in an ever-evolving game of one-upmanship. One...

By Matthew Kresal Doctor Who's seventeenth season, aired across autumn 1979 and early 1980, has become remembered primarily for being the...

By Matthew Kresal Titanic. It's a name that conjures up images. The grand ocean liner of the Edwardian era caught up in fate and...

By Matthew Kresal In 1975, Tom Baker concluded his first season of adventures as the Fourth Doctor in the BBC's long-running series...

By Matthew Kresal If you follow pop culture in the slightest or merely have a Netflix account, you've very likely heard of Bridgerton....

By Matthew Kresal When it comes to alternate histories of the Second World War, there seems to be a strong focus on Nazi Germany....

By Matthew Kresal Alternate history works seem to come in two varieties. In the first, authors see it as a genre, engaging in...

By Matthew Kresal Future history and alternate history come hand in hand. Often with the former becoming the latter as events overtake...

By Matthew Kresal Mars has called to generations of space enthusiasts, a crimson fleece for would-be astronauts. Visions of how we might...

By Matthew Kresal When dealing with sub-genres, there can often be a thin line between them. Take alternate history, dystopian fiction,...

By Matthew Kresal On the sixth of December 1989, viewers of BBC One watched the third and final episode of the Doctor Who serial...

By Matthew Kresal Halloween 1973. A Saturn V rocket sits on Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. On top of it, three...

By Matthew Kresal Every four years, American voters get the chance to elect a new President. The choices voters, and sometimes the House...

By Matthew Kresal In 1963, the BBC’s Doctor Who was simply another new television series looking for an audience. With its series debut...

By Matthew Kresal Any serious discussion of TV in the last twenty years or so will likely include The West Wing. Aaron Sorkin's drama...

By Matthew Kresel Alternate history truly has it's main home on the printed page. True, there have been AH movies and TV shows, but such...

By Matthew Kresal Alternate history offers us windows into worlds as they might have been. Arguably, this is a function of all fiction,...