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By Ryan Fleming. In the Pacific Ocean, hundreds of miles from where there should be any land, Harry Bell and his shipmates stepped tenderly from their launch onto the shore of the mysterious land Harry had spotted the night before. The ground was soft underfoot, in some spots the landing party’s boots sank into the mud all the way to the top and the men had to be pulled out thei...

By Matthew Kresal. Region 2 Special Edition DVD, image courtesy Amazon. Parallel worlds. What ifs? Elseworlds. Whatever you (or insert comic book company name here) might like to call them, there’s no doubt that the idea of seeing alternative versions of our favorite superheroes has a place among fans. Something that the long-running DC Universe Animated Original Movies series t...

By Gary Oswald. Leicester City celebrate winning the 2016 Premier League - a tournament that, handily for an article covering the money side of things, was sponsored by a bank! Photo by Peter Woodentop, made available as creative commons via Wikimedia Commons. In March 2026 Nigel Farage, leader of the right-wing political party Reform UK, held a series of rallies in Eastern Engl...

By Ryan Fleming. Outside a familiar brownstone in Manhattan, a quiet man stood on its stoop. He held a package in his hands, and a pistol in his pocket. Inside that same familiar brownstone, Charles Chance was brought up to speed by his partners on the appearance of a strange new world in the Pacific Ocean. “Speculation of dragons and gold and all sorts,” Annie Thomas was conclu...

By Alexander Rooksmoor. I was eager to write an alternate history spy novel and naturally Constantinople has always been a good place for such stories. As Istanbul, it features as a locale in From Russia with Love; The Murder on the Orient Express starts there, while Graham Greene’s Stamboul Train goes the other way; Sweet Waters’ by Harold Nicolson is set nearby in 1913. The mo...