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By Tom Anderson Mention the words “Star Wars” in an article series entitled “Prequel Problems” and half the readers are now picturing bad...

By Tom Anderson In this article series discussing the problems surrounding the writing (and reading) of prequel works, one driving...

By Thomas Anderson In this article I want to discuss a trope that reoccurs as a defining problem for writing many prequels (or indeed...

By Tom Anderson In this article series, I put forward the thesis that writing a prequel to an established work of media is one of the...

By Tom Anderson This is the first of a new series of writing-focused articles, in which I will review my experiences in what I regard as...

By Tom Anderson One of the more common reader comments I get on my Look to the West series of alternate history books is ‘How do you come...

By Tom Anderson It will be of no surprise to you if I said I am writing this article on a keyboard whose first row of letters spells out...

By Tom Anderson In a previous article, I discussed how the cartoon characters Tom and Jerry ultimately got their name from an 1821 novel...

By Tom Anderson The release of Die Hard in July 1988 was a seminal moment for not only the American film industry, but for world culture...

By Tom Anderson In my previous two articles, I discussed the fact that although America has had ‘only’ four presidents assassinated in...

By Tom Anderson In my last article, I discussed the important question that any American presidential nominee faces in the choice of a...

By Tom Anderson At the time of this article’s writing, amid a pandemic-hit campaign season like no other, former Vice-President and U.S....

By Tom Anderson ’Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now...ready to be introduced to you. Winnie-the-Pooh. When I first heard his...

By Tom Anderson On May 8th 2020, despite the circumstances of the coronavirus lockdown, the United Kingdom—like a number of other nations...

By Tom Anderson When a British traveller visits the United States for the first time, in my experience there is an almost comically...

By Tom Anderson When we think about the major popcultural phenomena that have shaped our world and spawned countless imitators—or...

By Tom Anderson In the UK, and many other countries, anyone who has ever had to design timetables and schedules for major educational...

By Tom Anderson Mention ‘comics’ and, today, your first thought is quite likely to be of larger-than-life American superhero comic books....

By Tom Anderson Ever since the power of science and technology to change the world was widely recognised, people have grappled with the...

By Tom Anderson In the roughly 45 years of the Cold War, the great naval buildup by the United States and her allies, and the more modest...