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By Ryan Fleming On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...

By Ryan Fleming On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...

By Ryan Fleming Nearly four decades after it was first released E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial retains a special place in the memories of not...

By Ryan Fleming In 1966 US television viewers were first introduced to Star Trek. The voyages of the starship Enterprise on her five-year...

By Ryan Fleming 1969. A significant year in many respects. The year of the first manned Moon landing, the year of Woodstock, the year of...

By Ryan Fleming Sometimes an actor can become as famous for the roles they did not get as the ones they did. There are many such examples...

By Ryan Fleming Bond. Not as Bond. In these articles I have mentioned how nothing seemed to attract the eye of the producers of the Bond...

By Ryan Fleming Christmas. Merry Christmas. Somehow a film series about an alcoholic, gambling, womanising assassin became a staple of...

By Ryan Fleming “Bond. Jimmy Bond.” Doesn’t have quite the same ring to it as the version of the line we got historically, does it? It...

By Ryan Fleming "Bond. James Bond.” With that line one of the most enduring characters in film history was introduced to audiences in...

By Ryan Fleming On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write vignettes on a...

By Ryan Fleming When you look at the highest grossing films in any given year this decade, you are greeted with a barrage of big-budget...

By Ryan Fleming There are many different ways real life can influence our popular culture. Real events can be adapted into fictionalised...

By Ryan Fleming How much is alternate history just a subgenre of science fiction? For a lot of the history of the genre it seemed as...

By Ryan Fleming "Spare me the tiresome antics of the Simpson family!" - C. Montgomery Burns What would the popular culture landscape look...

By Ryan Fleming The two most widely used ideas in alternate history are that of Nazi Germany emerging as a victor from the Second World...

By Ryan Fleming How might technology have developed in the latter decades of the twentieth century without the ubiquitous compact disc?...

By Ryan Fleming In some respects, alternate history is an examination of irony. There are many examples of serious alternate history...

By Ryan Fleming Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, The Sopranos, The X-Files. None of these may have existed were...

By Ryan Fleming The two most common alternate history settings are ones based on World War II and the American Civil War. Bringing up a...