In our world, actress Gates McFadden played Chief Medical Officer Doctor Beverly Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation for every season...

In a parallel universe, a different version of me is enjoying a successful, if notorious, career as a filmmaker. The latest hit from his Par...

Several days ago I posted about a daydream I've had of "replaying" my life with all the knowledge and experience I've lear...

Earlier this afternoon I assembled a Sentry Bot miniature from Fallout: Wasteland Warfare. This model is made of resin, which allows for gre...

Well, Sylvia and I are watching Watchmen , and we both found the new HBO series suspenseful, compelling, and even, as Sylvia put it, "...

One day, I wondered what Canada would look like if each American state bordering Canada joined Canada as new provinces. Here's what t...

I enjoy travel, maps, and politics, which is why I started to wonder, after our most recent road trip, if I'd visited enough states t...

How long before these need to be classified as alternate history instead of science fiction? 

The cat awoke me this morning, paws kneading my skull. "I don't want to work all the time," said the cat, telepathically. A...

After years of searching used book stores for Alternate Heroes , the second book in the What Might Have Been series pictured above, I fi...

Never one to leave well enough alone, I could not help but imagine how the covers of the Nowhere series might have looked had Paranoid ...

A few random frames from an educational filmstrip that might have existed in an alternate 1970s. In reality, Mom took a few pictures of D...

Yesterday's effort to render a paperback novel cover wasn't perfect, so I spent a few minutes this morning crafting the inevitab...

Inspired by Jeff's most recent post , I felt the urge to create something retro - in this case, an imaginary paperback from an alte...

Part I Part II Part III Act IV The two Moffs played by Lee and Reed (or similar) rush the Imperial copy of the Life Star to completion,...

Part I Part II Act III On the rebel shuttle, Luke is practicing with his father's - rather, his - lightsaber, duelling against a rem...

For the backstory and Act I, click here.  Act II In a scene on the Imperial homeworld we see the Emperor for the first time - not the fea...

Like most other kids who were lucky enough to see Star Wars during its original theatrical run, I fell in love with the film. I was enthral...

August 14, 1900   Private "Penny Dreadful" Detective Stops Nickel-and-Dime Crook Special to the Regina Crier by Nancy F...

This review contains SPOILERS for Stephen King's latest novel, 11/22/63 . Read no further if you have yet to read, or have interest in...