Stepping Through a Time Slip: Recapping My Sideways in Time Conference Experience
Two weeks ago Matt stepped through a timeslip.
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Interview: Harry Turtledove
Harry Turtledove, student of Byzantium, talks about alternate history. On this timeline anyway.
The Turtledove Effect or: The Wrong Way To Use People and Events From Our Timeline
The ‘Turtledove Effect’ is a misnomer.
Do We Really Need a Dark and Gritty Power Rangers Reboot?
Holy crap! Did you guys see Joseph Kahn and Adi Shankar’s Power/Rangers?
Book Review: Voyage by Stephen Baxter
Voyage is set in an alternate timeline where Jacqueline Kennedy is killed on 11/22/63 and John Kennedy is left paralyzed. Although no longer able to serve as president, he becomes an outspoken proponent of manned space flight.
The Retro Future of Back to the Future Part II
We may be living in Marty McFly’s 2015…or at least parts of it.
Five Common Mistakes in American Civil War Alternate Histories
We sense a whole new series of Civil War Alt Hists coming down the pike…on the road from Gettysburg
Audiobook Review: Murder on the Orient Elite by Larry Correia
Reading with your ears instead of your eyes….
Book Review: Man With The Iron Heart by Mat Nastos
Man With The Iron Heart tells the story of Ian MacAndrew, a Scottish commando who works with the Czech resistance in Prague to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich.
Book Review: The Darkest Hour by Tony Schumacher
The British appear obsessed with invasion literature.
Book Review: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
When I first picked up a paperback copy and flipped through the pages interspersed with bizarre black and white photos, I suspected I was holding in my hand a piece of weird fiction that is palatable for even the casual SF reader.
Book Review: The Age of Zeus by James Lovegrove
The Age of Zeus, one of James Lovegrove’s Pantheon series
Optimistic Alternate Histories and Their Purpose in the Genre
Are optimistic alternate histories, however, inherently implausible and can they serve a purpose in the genre?
Book Review: Stories of the Raksura by Martha Wells
Matt takes a look at presentations of gender in Martha Wells’ collection
Four Reasons Why Going Back in Time and Killing Hitler is Pointless
For all kinds of (good) reasons, we’re probably stuck with this version of history
Book Review: Gideon Smith and the Brass Dragon by David Barnett
Story 1…Maps 0. A review of the sequel to Gideon Smith and the Mechanical Girl
Book Review: Altered Pasts: Counterfactuals in History by Richard J Evans
Matt turns aside Richard Evan’s arguments against counterfactual history. That is, he does so here, in this time track….
What If Scotland Voted Yes?
A small minority of historians point to the independence as Scotland as major turning point in history.
A Brief Timeline of the Alternate History Fandom
The speculative fiction community is divided into unique sets of fandom. These fandoms are not just defined by what they like, but also how they speak and dress. Even the means of communication and where […]
Book Review: The Golden Princess by SM Stirling
Matt reviews the latest offering in Stirling’s Emberverse series.
Book Review: The League of Seven by Alan Gratz
Read your age! Ummm NOPE! Matt points out we’d miss something like this if we followed that dictum
Great Writers of Alternate History: The Many Firsts of the 19th Century
Nate Hawthorne wrote AltHist!? Who knew? Matt did….
Great Writers of Alternate History: From the Classical Era to the Age of Enlightenment
The Alternate History genre did not spring up over night. In fact, it has deep literary and historical roots.
Why is Norse Mythology So Popular in SF?
From legendary swords to frost giants, Norse mythology has made deep inroads into genre fiction.
Four Things A Book Geek Learned While Moving
Oh woe is the moving book collector! Paper really IS heavy! (But you now, no matter how heavy they all are, you’ve gotta have ’em!)
Book Review: Surrounded by Enemies: What if Kennedy Survived Dallas? by Bryce Zabel
The Kennedy assassination is an alternate history constant.
3 Real Vehicles to Use in Your Next Dieselpunk Story
Mechanical Horses? Steam-Powered Tanks? Flying Diesel cars? You don’t have to make this stuff up!
Book Review: The Windsor Faction by D. J. Taylor
A review, and lamentations over having to pen a BAD review.
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