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By Gary Oswald. Cover of the current UK e-book version, picture courtesy Amazon. The exact effect the smallpox epidemics had on the native populations of the New World is a deeply contentious historical argument. This is because there are no agreed upon population counts of how many Native Americans lived in the Americas prior to European contact in 1491. Alfred Kroeber suggested a number of around eight million people, Henry Dobyns however argued the number was above one hun

By Ryan Fleming. Not actually The Thief and the Cobbler, nor a family classic. DVD cover for the Arabian Knight edit (retitled) courtesy Amazon - could another world have an early 2000s DVD of the real thing? There are some films whose development hell has made them infamous, usually for ruining what could have been a good film. Then there are those whose development hell has made them legendary. We’ve touched upon a couple of these in this series already: A Confederacy of Du

By Matthew Kresal. Mention the title Flashpoint to a fan of DC Comics and you’ll get a flicker of recognition. It was the title, after all, of a 2011 crossover event that reshaped the DC universe prior to the launch of the New 52 with alternate versions of various characters. An arc that not only inspired an animated adaptation released two years later but also influenced story elements that appeared in both TV and films adaptations of the Flash (with decidedly mixed results

By Matthew Kresal. The Colin Baker era of Doctor Who , filled as it was with various trials and tribulations, left behind a plethora of unmade serials. Some were scripted for the originally planned season 23 before the series went on hiatus, only to be replaced by Trial of a Time Lord . Others were serials grandfathered into the era (such as  The Space Whale  aka   The Song of Megaptera ) or commissioned but never produced (such as The First Sontarans from Andrew Smith). Amon

By Owen Michael. Cover courtesy Amazon. The Art of Saving the World was a birthday gift from my younger sister, who (accurately) thought a fantasy story with an asexual heroine and heavily featuring alternate universes was a concept that would appeal to me. It's not quite alternate history as traditionally defined; only one alternate universe is depicted as having clear and major world differences, as opposed to clear differences for the main character and her family. But it

By Ryan Fleming. A famous Hollywood celebrity poses with his co-star Julie Adams. Image courtesy the FDA (who Adams autographed it for...

By Ryan Fleming. All Eyez on Me, Tupac Shakur's last album released while he was alive and shortly after he first wrote Live 2 Tell....

By Matthew Kresal. The Dark Planet cover, courtesy Big Finish Productions. Early 1960s Doctor Who is at times an extraordinary thing to...

By Colin Salt. Bruce Begins. 1974 hardcover, picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Of the theory that behind every great 1970s movie is a...

By Ryan Fleming. Release poster, image courtesy wikipedia. The notion of Stanley Kubrick and Steven Spielberg collaborating on a film...

By Gary Oswald. A promotional image of the event; from the DHM website, copyright DWM & David von Becker. From December 2022 to January...

By Ryan Fleming and Charles E.P. Murphy In our world, this show does not exist - but in another world, you can find DVD boxsets right...

By Ryan Fleming. Cover courtesy Amazon. “Is Alternate History a genre or a setting” is an oft-debated topic in the genre (or the...

By Matthew Kresal. Red Son's first collection, picture courtesy Amazon Richard Donner, director of the 1978 Christopher Reeve Superman ...

By Ryan Fleming. The infamous dino-humanoid concept art by Carlos Huante that made it online after the news of the script broke. Picture...

Cover courtesy Internet Archive Aaron Burr is not the most famous of the first generation of statesmen in the USA, but he is one of the...

By Ryan Fleming. The 'ghost with the most', image courtesy Amazon   Beetlejuice Beetlejuice  was released in 2024 to box office success...

By Ryan Fleming. Cover for the audiobook; picture courtesy Amazon. An odd habit from some in recent years is the complaint about the...

Review by Gary Oswald Picture courtesy Amazon Murder on the Titania is a collection of five short stories all starring the same...

By Ryan Fleming. Vincent Price stumbles through the end of the world (taken from Last Man on Earth). Since the birth of film censorship,...