Alternate history is a fairly common element of today’s science fiction scene.   It’s not unusual to read about a novel or encounter ...

Many films and tv series have featured Hitler’s Third Reich.   And while the clipped ‘stache and heavily-greased forelock are the Fuhrer...

The transition from the Silver Age of science fiction to the New Age brought with it a change in perspective on mankind’s chances in ...

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Sometimes I’m behind the times, and with Robert Jackson Bennett’s 2014 City of Stairs , for certain I am—or was.   Distrusting the ex...

Humanity’s written history perpetual for such a time now, fiction set in yesteryear has become an area of writing unto itself—a whole...

There is very little cyberpunk which brings religion in as a major theme.   Its concerns largely technological, biological, existenti...

Exceptional powers more a burden than a gift, Cyril Hayes—company man to the powerful McNaughton Corporation—lives his corporate agen...

With the emergence of any cultural phenomenon, there is the natural, human inclination to develop it as much as possible.   (In the p...