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Writing the Speculative Into Real History

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Alternate History

Writing the Speculative Into Real History

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Detail from the cover of 1632 by Eric Flint
Books
Front Lines and Frontiers

Good Old American Time Travel: 1632 by Eric Flint

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Closeup photo of a globe of the earth, focused primarily on North America
Books
Politics

Five SFF Works About Unlikely Global Superpowers

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Detail from the cover of Ectopia
Books
Five Books

Five Futures Where the US Ended Not With a Bang But a Whimper

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Illustration of the White House, 1817
Books
presidents

Five SF Scenarios Involving the Presidential Line of Succession

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Books
history

Five SFF Works About Creating, Revising, and Obfuscating History

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Photo of the London skyline with the Big Ben clock tower at the center
Books
London

Five SFF Novels Set in London (But Not the One in Canada)

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Cover of Apostles of Mercy by Lindsay Ellis, showing a moth or butterfly made of black, orange and purple random shapes, against a background with vertical green and white stripes.
Excerpts
Noumena

Read an Excerpt From Lindsay Ellis’s Apostles of Mercy

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Book cover of O.O. Sangoyomi's Masquerade against a background of map art from the novel
Book Recommendations
map design

Reality Meets the Invented: Revealing the Map for Masquerade

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Excerpts
Nisi Shawl

Read an Excerpt From Nisi Shawl’s Kinning

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For All Mankind, season 4 episode 3, The Bear Hug, Masha Mashkova and Joel Kinnaman, astronauts strapped into ship cockpit
Featured Essays
television

The Problem With For All Mankind’s Alt-History Politics

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Star Trek

Star Trek: Enterprise Rewatch: “Storm Front” (Part I)

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"It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.”

Frank Herbert, Dune

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