I really should have made it clearer that the "Kubrick's ghost" comment was tongue in cheek. I know that Kubrick had a very similar ending in mind for the film but I don't think that really eliminates the problems with the ending or the weirdly sentimental streak in a coda that is, as another commenter pointed out, still …
Everything you need to know about Starcraft II
On July 27, Blizzard Entertainment will release Starcraft II, the sequel to the real-time strategy game so popular that it's still the gold standard of the genre 12 years later. Today, we'll be looking at Starcraft as a scifi narrative.
Great moments in alternate history: World War II
It's finally here — the biggest alternate timeline of all alternate timelines, the alternate history trope to top all alternate history tropes. Today we look at some alternate histories of the Second World War.
Where are all the good alternate history movies?
We've got tons of alternate history books, comics, and video games, and yet we have so few committed alt-history motion pictures. On this Sunday's Great Moments in Alternate History, we're going to the movies!
Great moments in alternate history: the non-fall of the Roman empire
The Roman Empire has given speculative fiction authors plenty of fodder for alternate history tales. There are dozens of stories in which the fall of Rome is delayed or prevented, and technology advances at an alarming pace.
For example, there's Jacek Inglot's Quietus in which a Roman Empire that has rejected…
A brief history of alternate history fiction
This week we take a break from examining alternate timelines and recap the real-life origins of the alternate history genre. Did you know such historical luminaries as Benjamin Disraeli, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and H.G. Wells were alternate history aficionados?
The first writing that looks anything like modern alternate …
@Bob Ramsey: This is actually way more interesting than the real plot of the comic (called Superman: Speeding Bullets) which is basically that Superman becomes Batman until he figures out that with his kind of power he can't fight from the shadows and becomes Superman.
@Shostokovich: I considered including the Liberty Files because I really enjoyed it. I decided to cut it since, when it comes right down to it, those characters already existed during WWII (in the DC timeline anyway) and so it was as much a gritty espionage take on them than a full fledged alternate history. Then I…
