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'Superman: Red Son' film review
By Alexander Wallace When I was a neophyte to online alternate history, Mark Millar’s Superman: Red Son was one of the most commonly...
Mar 22, 20213 min read


The Alternate History of Bridgerton
By Matthew Kresal If you follow pop culture in the slightest or merely have a Netflix account, you've very likely heard of Bridgerton....
Mar 19, 20215 min read


'Another Girl, Another Planet' review
By Alexander Wallace It took me far too long to actually get around to reading Another Girl, Another Planet; I had attended RavenCon some...
Mar 10, 20213 min read


Review: Rising Sun Victorious
By Matthew Kresal When it comes to alternate histories of the Second World War, there seems to be a strong focus on Nazi Germany....
Mar 5, 20213 min read


Dragon America review
By Alexander Wallace The American Revolution has become a legend for the United States, as wars of national liberation have become for...
Mar 3, 20213 min read


The Marble Man: The Guns of the South, The Lost Cause, and Harry Turtledove
By Monroe Templeton Harry Turtledove’s The Guns of the South (1992) is a classic of alternate history. It is a book which has cemented...
Feb 26, 20219 min read


'The Bat and Balloon War' review
By Alexander Wallace Back when I was getting into the alternate history fandom in the early 2010s, I read many strange alternate history...
Feb 24, 20213 min read


Review: The Luna Missile Crisis
By Matthew Kresal Alternate history works seem to come in two varieties. In the first, authors see it as a genre, engaging in...
Feb 19, 20213 min read


'Or Even Eagle Flew' review
By Alexander Wallace She disappeared over the Pacific after taking off from Lae in Papua New Guinea, and from there was never seen again....
Feb 17, 20213 min read


Noble Eagle in its Flight: 'Afronauts' as Alternate History
By Alexander Wallace All too often, those of us in the West have rather skewed views of what we consider ‘developed.’ Much of the world...
Feb 10, 20213 min read


Review: The Big One Series
By Colin Salt Coming along at just the right time and place for me, the The Big One series by the recently deceased Stuart Slade has to...
Feb 8, 20215 min read


Review: The Shape of Things to Come
By Matthew Kresal Future history and alternate history come hand in hand. Often with the former becoming the latter as events overtake...
Feb 5, 20214 min read


'The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln' review
By Alexander Wallace Abraham Lincoln is now widely revered as the savior of the American republic, second only to George Washington in...
Feb 3, 20213 min read


The Walking Wonder Weapon: Looking Back at '1945A'
By Alex Wallace To be perfectly honest I don’t remember where I first encountered 1945A; it was probably through YouTube’s related video...
Jan 27, 20213 min read


Review: The Greening of Mars
By Matthew Kresal Mars has called to generations of space enthusiasts, a crimson fleece for would-be astronauts. Visions of how we might...
Jan 22, 20213 min read


Review: Ring Shout
By Alex Wallace Racism is oftentimes a terrifying thing to those who have to bear the brunt of it. In the Jim Crow South, specifically...
Jan 20, 20213 min read
Review: Very British Dystopias
By Matthew Kresal When dealing with sub-genres, there can often be a thin line between them. Take alternate history, dystopian fiction,...
Jan 8, 20213 min read


Review: The History of Time Travel
By Alexander Wallace Much like the piece I did on Roll Northumbria, this little film is one of those wonderful little things that an...
Jan 6, 20213 min read


A Cruel War in Low Germany: Looking Back at Ralph Peters' 'Red Army'
By Alexander Wallace The likes of Tom Clancy and Larry Bond captured a certain American triumphalist zeitgeist that ran throughout the...
Dec 30, 20203 min read


Reading 'The War in 2020' in 2020
By Alex Wallace There’s a certain poetry, I feel, in reading old science fiction the year in which it is set. You see two mirrors,...
Dec 23, 20204 min read
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