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60 Years of Doctor Who. Part 5: The Fifth Doctor
By Matthew Kresal Following Tom Baker. A tough ask. Picture Courtesy Big Finish Productions. When Tom Baker left Doctor Who after seven...
Aug 14, 20235 min read


An Alternate History of Horror XIV: Paperbacks from Hell
By Ryan Fleming. Frankenstein at work in his laboratory. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Modern horror fiction was born in novels....
Aug 11, 202314 min read


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...
Aug 10, 20237 min read


Insulting a Regiment
By David Flin The inspiration for so much stuff. Available from LibriVox. In a previous article , Eoin Mulligan gave us an overview of...
Aug 8, 20235 min read


Comics Part 3: Judge Meant - The Early Unpublished Dredds
By Charles EP Murphy Comic's favourite fascist in an iconic moment. Picture courtesy GamesRadar+. He spent fifteen years in the academy –...
Aug 7, 20238 min read


Monthly Vignette: Führer Directive 834
By John A. Hopkins On Sealion Press Forums , we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...
Aug 5, 20239 min read


60 Years of Doctor Who. Part 4: The Fourth Doctor
By Matthew Kresal Harry, Sarah, and Tom Baker. The Iconic Doctor Who. In my opinion. Picture courtesy Big Finish. Ask a Doctor Who fan...
Aug 4, 20238 min read


Sport in Alternate History. Part 3: Edgbaston 2005
By Pete Usher The smallest trophy in world team sports. Michael Vaughan holding The Ashes after victory in 2005. Picture courtesy ESPN....
Aug 2, 202310 min read


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 31, 202317 min read


Announcement: Holiday Break
Hello. Fret not, it’s me that’s taking the holiday break, not the Blog. I’ll be away for most of August, and will not really be...
Jul 30, 20232 min read


Alternate Quotes
By David Flin He's not going to be amused, is he. It all started with a joke. Someone (I forget who) quoted Churchill’s famous comment...
Jul 29, 20232 min read


Alternate History of Horror. Part XIII: Bad Karma
By Ryan Fleming Sales of chainsaws rose after the film. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. As the 1960s became the 1970s, US horror...
Jul 28, 202314 min read


What's Opera, Doc? Part 5, Collaborations (ii). Soloists
By Alex Richards Renatus Meszar as Wotan in Die Walkure; “Wotan’s exactly like us: he is the sum of today’s intellectual consciousness,...
Jul 27, 20236 min read


Comic Corner: Captain Britain by Alan Moore and Alan Davis
Towards an Earth that is not Earth. Alternate realities - don't you just love them. Written in the early 1980s, this series, along with...
Jul 25, 20235 min read


Book Nook: Smithtown Unit - an Author Commentary
By Colin Salt I’m calling this an author commentary instead of an author review. I really don’t feel like authors should “review” their...
Jul 24, 20232 min read


Interview: Paul Hynes
Questions by Gary Oswald Hello and thanks so much for talking to us. First of all, how did you get into Alternate History and what...
Jul 21, 20238 min read


What's Opera, Doc? Part 5: Collaborations
By Alex Richards. It's got a Barber, so the opera must be... Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. There is a common misconception in...
Jul 20, 20236 min read


Sport in Alternate History. Part 2: Disasters
By Pete Usher Possibly the most famous of them all. The Munich air disaster. Picture courtesy Sky News. The first part of this article...
Jul 19, 20235 min read


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...
Jul 17, 202315 min read


Tales from Development Hell: Indiana Jones IV.
By Ryan Fleming Four out of five; a series long in the production. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. 2023 will see the release of a...
Jul 14, 20239 min read
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