Back in the USSA: A world in which the roles in the Cold War were reversed
In some respects, alternate history is an examination of irony. There are many examples of serious alternate history. There are moments when characters reflect on how our own history is implausible or unthinkable. For something more tongue-in-cheek, Eugene Byrne and Kim Newman took the United States, capitalist and democratic and emerging victorious from the Cold War, and pasted the…
The sci-fi art of Chris Moore
Chris Moore is a British artist who has illustrated everything from (science-fiction) novels to LP covers.
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Review of the 1968 alternate Space Race movie Countdown
The 1960s Space Race saw the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in an ever-evolving game of oneupmanship. One that saw them leaping from first satellite to the first man to the first woman and first multi-person crew to, thanks to President John F. Kennedy’s 1961 declaration before Congress, to putting someone on the Moon first. That goal was reached in July 1969, when Apollo 11’s Neil…
All Quiet on the Western Front: Review of the 1979 film adaptation
Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front (1929) is widely acclaimed as perhaps the finest antiwar novel of all time. It is a book that exudes the despair and hopelessness that we commonly associate with the Great War (if any war can be “great”). It has codified how we think of the War to End All Wars (if any war can end war). It is little wonder, then, that it was adapted to film…
The UFO art of James Nichols
James Nichols is an American science-fiction artist who specializes in ufology. Many of his works depict actual UFO stories and myths, from aliens visiting Ancient Egypt to Nazi flying discs to the crash at Roswell to Area 51.
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Our review of Dez Schwartz’s The Dandy Medium
The Dandy Medium is a gaslight-era adventure novel mixing good old-fashioned detective work with the supernatural and paranormal. And does a great job of it too!
Author Dez Schwartz takes the best elements from the genres he mixes, including a detective duo that can easily measure up to Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, but also more contemporary teams, such as Castle and Beckett, with excellent…
Jungle Cruise is a fun throwback to classic adventure movies
Jungle Cruise was the only second movie I saw in the cinema since it reopened from the COVID-19 lockdown, and it was money well spent.
(It helped that we saw it in Amsterdam’s magnificent Tuschinski Theater. If you’re ever in town, take two hours out of your schedule to see a movie in what Time Out has called the most beautiful cinema in the world.)
Jungle Cruise is a throwback to classic…
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