Aug 1812 minScot FreeBy Ryan Fleming On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a ...
Jul 1113 minPopular Culture Without E.T.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...
Jun 1514 minThese Are the Different Voyages...By Ryan Fleming In 1966 US television viewers were first introduced to Star Trek. The voyages of the starship Enterprise on her five-year...
Feb 1410 minWho Killed the Western?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...
Jan 298 minBond. Well, nearly...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...
Jan 99 minIN Bond - but not AS BondBy 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 ...
Dec 26, 201910 minThe Many Faces of James Bond (Part 3)By Ryan Fleming Christmas. Merry Christmas. Somehow a film series about an alcoholic, gambling, womanising assassin became a staple of Ch...
Dec 13, 201910 minThe Many Faces of James Bond (Part 2)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 la...
Nov 28, 20199 minThe Many Faces of James Bond (Part 1)By Ryan Fleming "Bond. James Bond.” With that line one of the most enduring characters in film history was introduced to audiences in 196...
Nov 24, 20197 minVignette Sunday: RedistributionBy Ryan Fleming On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write vignettes on a spec...
Nov 14, 20196 minPopular Culture without... JawsBy 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 b...
Oct 31, 20196 minPopular Culture without... Ed Gein By Ryan Fleming There are many different ways real life can influence our popular culture. Real events can be adapted into fictionalised ...
Jul 11, 20197 minRyan's Reviews - Conquistador by S M StirlingBy 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 thou...
Jul 4, 201912 minPopular Culture Without... The SimpsonsBy Ryan Fleming "Spare me the tiresome antics of the Simpson family!" - C. Montgomery Burns What would the popular culture landscape look...
Jun 27, 20198 minRyan's Reviews - How Few Remain, by Harry TurtledoveBy Ryan Fleming The two most widely used ideas in alternate history are that of Nazi Germany emerging as a victor from the Second World W...
Jun 20, 201911 minAlternate Technologies - A World Without CDsBy Ryan Fleming How might technology have developed in the latter decades of the twentieth century without the ubiquitous compact disc? W...
Jun 13, 20199 minRyan's reviews: Back in the USSA by Eugene Byrne and Kim NewmanBy Ryan Fleming In some respects, alternate history is an examination of irony. There are many examples of serious alternate history ther...
Jun 6, 20198 minPopular Culture without... Kolchak: The Night StalkerBy Ryan Fleming Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, The Sopranos, The X-Files. None of these may have existed were ...
May 30, 201910 minRyan's Reviews: The Two Georges, by Harry Turtledove and Richard DreyfussBy Ryan Fleming The two most common alternate history settings are ones based on World War II and the American Civil War. Bringing up a d...
May 23, 201910 minPopular Culture Without... Star WarsBy Ryan Fleming On the 25th of May 1977 Star Wars was released in the United States, it was a film almost every studio in Hollywood had t...
