Not-Trek Worldbuilding. Part 1: Gene Roddenburry's Andromeda
By Tom Anderson The crew of the Enterprise at the launch of the other Enterprise. The OTL one. Gene Roddenberry appropriately takes...
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- Oct 20
- 7 min
Alternate History and Stargate. Part 7
By Tom Anderson Time to look butch. Time to look at Stargate. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. When we last left this rundown of...
- Oct 16
- 9 min
The Alternate Lavender Island
Marooned guest: Tom Anderson Lavendered, with just a few possessions. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Have you ever wondered what it...
- Oct 9
- 8 min
Alternate History and Stargate. Part 6
By Tom Anderson From left: Debbie Reynolds (actress), Richard Nixon (President), Carrie Fisher (actress), Pat Nixon (First Lady). None of...
- Oct 6
- 9 min
Writing AH. Anachronisms Part 6: War! Huh! What is it named for?
By Tom Anderson French military cemetery in Verdun; The Great War for Civilisation 1914-1919. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Ask...
- Sep 14
- 10 min
Alternate History and Stargate. Part 5
By Tom Anderson Asgard Transporter, Second Life. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. When we last left this series , I had approached the...
- Aug 28
- 10 min
Alternate History and Stargate. Part 4
By Tom Anderson What this team needs is a fashion designer. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Last time on this series , we had reached...
- Aug 16
- 12 min
Writing AH. Anachronisms Part 5: Fly Me to the Moon
By Tom Anderson A long way to go. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. My fellow SLP writer Andy Cooke has been known to opine his...
- Aug 10
- 7 min
Alternate History and Stargate. Part 2
By Tom Anderson Interest in reviving the franchise? According to Digital Spy, maybe. Picture courtesy Digital Spy. In my previous...
- Jul 31
- 17 min
Alternate History and Stargate. Part 1.
By Tom Anderson. The eponymous Stargate, from the 1994 film. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. The Stargate franchise debuted in 1994...
- Jul 17
- 15 min
Prequel Problems: My Brother's Keeper (Star Trek)
By Tom Anderson Not a red shirt in sight at the completion of construction of the Enterprise. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. In part...
- Jun 21
- 8 min
Alternate History and Terry Pratchett. Part 6: Strata
By Tom Anderson Strata by Terry Pratchett. In my article series looking at the use of Alternate History (AH) tropes and concepts by Terry...
- May 31
- 9 min
Alternate History and Terry Pratchett. Part 5: Jingo
By Tom Anderson Of course there was a newspaper called Jingo. Curiously, American rather than British. Picture courtesy Wikimedia...
- May 24
- 15 min
Alternate History and Terry Pratchett. Part 4: Lords and Ladies.
By Tom Anderson. They are not our friends. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. In the next part of my look at Terry Pratchett’s use of...
- May 13
- 6 min
Writing AH: Anachronisms, Part 2.
By Tom Anderson. Good! Great! Awesome! Outstanding! Amazing! Awful, amusing, and artificial. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. In a...
- May 10
- 10 min
Alternate History and Terry Pratchett, Part 3: Small Gods
By Tom Anderson The Turtle Moves; An Ouroboros encircling disc carried by four elephants atop a great turtle. Wood engraving after an...
- Apr 26
- 10 min
Alternate History and Terry Pratchett: Mort
By Thomas Anderson. A fan favourite. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. In my previous article, we looked at how Terry Pratchett uses...
- Apr 10
- 11 min
Writing AH: Anachronisms
By Tom Anderson "My God, Sir, I've lost my leg." "My God, Sir, if you had a GPS tracker device fitted to it, you'd never lose it."...
- Mar 28
- 21 min
Alternate History in Star Trek Part 27: TNG Spinoffs of the Movie Era
By Tom Anderson Last time we looked at Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS) non-canon spinoffs, such as comics and novels, which were...
- Mar 13
- 13 min
Alternate History in Star Trek Part 26: TOS Spinoffs of the Late Nineties
By Tom Anderson In the second half of the 1990s, the Star Trek franchise was now represented on-screen by the TV series “Star Trek: Deep...
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