Cosmonaut X by Arthur Wyatt and Laurence Campbell

Happy Yuri’s Night! It’s the fifty-sixth anniversary of Yuri Gagarin making history as the first man to travel into space Continue reading →

The Pacific Mystery by Stephen Baxter

Sometimes all you need is a neat conceit and the storytelling to follow it through. In today’s story, Baxter starts Continue reading →

Aristotle and the Gun by L. Sprague de Camp

Most time travellers, when they decide to change history for the better, opt to kill Hitler or tweak the American Continue reading →

Turpentine by Barry N. Malzberg

I am nowhere near old enough to remember the USA student riots of the 1960s. What little I know comes Continue reading →

The Last Article by Harry Turtledove

This is the sort of deliciously high concept that practically writes itself once you’ve heard the premise: the Nazis win Continue reading →