Paleofuture: Part 7. Blade Runner and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
By Tom Anderson. Blade Runner Spinner at the Peterson Museum in Los Angeles. This vehicle is in the SF section and not, alas, the...
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- Jul 24
- 14 min
Paleofuture. Part 6: Emprise
By Tom Anderson. Picture courtesy Amazon. This entry in the Paleofuture article series, in which I look at classic works of science...
- Jul 19
- 14 min
Paleofuture Part 5. Foundation and Empire, and Second Foundation
By Tom Anderson Artist impression of the planet Terminus. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. In a previous article , I discussed...
- Jul 8
- 8 min
Alternate Space. For All Mankind: Part 4
By Andy Cooke Buzz Aldrin removing the passive seismometer from a compartment in the Lunar Lander, OTL. Picture courtesy Wikimedia...
- Jul 5
- 13 min
Paleofuture. Part 4: Ringworld
Review by Tom Anderson. Ringworld computer image. Geometrically correct according to Niven's dimensions. Picture courtesy Wikimedia...
- Jul 1
- 4 min
Gerry Anderson's Five Star Five
By Matthew Kresal The man who started it all, Gerry Anderson. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Mention the name Gerry Anderson and...
- Jun 17
- 3 min
Book Nook: Casca
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...
- Jun 12
- 14 min
Paleofuture. Part 3: Rendezvous with Rama
By Tom Anderson Arthur C Clarke, 1965. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. If you have not already read the first article in this series...
- May 8
- 6 min
Alternate Space For All Mankind, Part 2.
By Andy Cooke. The famous Earthrise photo taken from Apollo 8. Picture courtesy NASA (public domain). Part 1 of this article series can...
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- Apr 19
- 6 min
Book Nook: If It Had Happened Otherwise (Ed JC Squire, 1932[fn 1])
Review by Liam Connell A parlour game of the Might-Have-Beens. Picture courtesy Amazon. Alternate history, the historian EH Carr famously...
- Apr 17
- 8 min
Alternate Space. For All Mankind.
By Andy Cooke For All Mankind, from Apple TV. Picture courtesy Apple. Introduction We are living in a Golden Age for alternate history in...
- Apr 10
- 13 min
Book Nook: For Want of a Nail
Review by Ryan Fleming. There's no doubt. The title tells you what the book's about. Picture courtesy Amazon. Amongst the many...
- Feb 23
- 9 min
John le Carré, a Trade Secret. Part 3.
By Peter Randall This is where the magic happens now. MI6 headquarters. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Parts 1 and 2 of this series...
- Feb 16
- 17 min
Prequel Problems: Deny Thy Father (Star Trek)
By Tom Anderson Doesn't he look strange without the beard? Young Will Riker. Picture courtesy Star Trek Wiki. In my dedicated Star Trek...
- Feb 14
- 7 min
John le Carré, a Trade Secret. Part 2
By Peter Randall David Cornwell (John le Carré) when he moved from being a spook to writing about them. Picture courtesy Spiked. Part 1...
- Feb 9
- 14 min
An Alternate History of Horror XXI: Jump Scare
By Ryan Fleming. Nosferatu, 1922. One of the earliest classics of the genre. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. It seems appropriate for...
- Feb 7
- 6 min
John le Carré, A Trade Secret. Part 1
By Peter Randall. David Cornwell, better known as John le Carré, master of betrayal. Picture courtesy Associated Press. John le Carré was...
- Feb 2
- 9 min
Tales from Development Hell: I Am Legend
By Ryan Fleming Will Smith (left) in I Am Legend. Picture courtesy Wired. I’m afraid I have some sad news. This is the last article in...
- Jan 31
- 15 min
Non-Trek Worldbuilding. Part 3: Red Dwarf
By Tom Anderson The picture editor is an idiot. That's an abutilon red dwarf, which has nothing to do with this article. Picture courtesy...
- Jan 12
- 10 min
Tales From Development Hell: The Hook
By Ryan Fleming. A publicity poster for On The Waterfront. It could equally have been used for The Hook. Picture courtesy Wikimedia...
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