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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...

By 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...

By Ryan Fleming What are the best works of alternate history? Are they the ones with the richest, most detailed, and most plausible...

By Ryan Fleming There are a number of ideas that are recurrent in alternate history. The two most recurring being the victories of the...

By Ryan Fleming There are few moments in history where you can pinpoint a single decision that brought about momentous changes as a...

By Ryan Fleming Within published alternate history fiction of decades gone by there seemed to be only a few genres that would make use of...

By Ryan Fleming In the last article we took a look at the lead up to the 1979 Scottish devolution referendum, as well as how though a...

By Ryan Fleming This series looks at specific individual Points of Divergence (PoDs). One rather prominent example is what could happen...