Daniel Kalder on Cold War Armageddon
Children of the 1980s recall the pervasive atmosphere of imminent nuclear devastation which we somehow survived. Not unlike Daniel Kalder with the naval base warning siren, I found that the…
Category: alt hist
“The whirligig of time” : A note on Fr Pat Noise
Seeing that this documentary is to be broadcast next Saturday I thought it an apt time, though any time would be an apt time, to post about my own research…
Alt Hist No More
Sadly, Alt Hist has published its final issue. Or rather, Mark Lord has understandably, given multiple demands, decided to step back from publishing it. Mark published two of my own stories in…
Review of Greatest Uncommon Denominator #6, Summer 2010, SF Site
Following reposting my review of GUD#5 here is my review of GUD#6. Following this I had interesting correspondence with Lou Antonelli and Jim Pascual Agustin Following my review of GUD Issue 5, it…
Review of “The Yellow Rose of Texas: The Myth of Emily Morgan” – Douglas Brode/Joe Orsak, SF Site, 2010
Original here “This is the West, Sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.” This famous quote from John Ford’s The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is…
Der Untergang (Downfall) – reviewed for SAU Blog, April 28th 2005
Downfall loomed large in 2005 as a cultural phenomenon. Perhaps, at that point, the fact that some of the survivors of Hitler’s bunker were still alive made it all the…
“Lackendarra” published in Alt Hist 9
My story Lackendarra has heen published in issue 9 of Alt Hist, the bestselling magazine of historical fiction http://althistfiction.com/2016/10/23/alt-hist-issue-9-published/ Heres the cover. Here are some Comeragh photos to mark the…
Fiction update Oct 2016
Every so often I keep the billions of readers of this blog updated on my fiction. I am glad to say I have a story in the upcoming issue of Alt…
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