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Matthew Kresal is an author, critic, and podcaster with many and varying interests, having written about and discussed topics as wide-ranging as the BBC's Doctor Who, Cold War fact and fiction, and the UFO phenomenon on podcasts including The Police Box in a Junkyard Podcast and Spybrary. His anthologized fiction includes the Sidewise Award-winning “Moonshot” in Alternate Australias and “Station Keeping” in UNIT: Operation Fall Out. His first novel, Our Man on the Hill, was published in May 2021 by Sea Lion Press. He is also the author of the Dark Skies volume in Observe Books’ Silver Archive series, separating fact and fiction for that 1990s conspiracy thriller/alternate history TV series. ...more

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	Tales From Alternate Earths Volume III by Leo McBride (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Alan Smale (Goodreads Author), Daniel M. Bensen (Goodreads Author) 3.84 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2021 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sherlock Holmes: Stranger Than Fiction by Ray Riethmeier (Goodreads Author), Thomas Kent Miller (Goodreads Author), David Marcum (Goodreads Author) 4.05 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 2021 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Tribute to H.G. Wells, Stories Inspired by the Master of Science Fiction Volume 1: Mars: Bringer of War by Brian Belanger (Editor), Derrick Belanger (Goodreads Author), Richard Paolinelli (Goodreads Author) 4.87 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Outside In: 160 new perspectives on 160 classic Doctor Who stories by 160 writers by Stacey Smith (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Andrew Cartmel (Goodreads Author), David J. Howe (Goodreads Author) 4.31 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2012	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tangle & Fen: A Dark Fiction Anthology by Rachel A. Brune (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Carol Gyzander (Goodreads Author), A.V. Greene 4.05 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2023 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Autumn Noir: An Unsettling Reads Anthology by H. Dair Brown (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Contributor), Robin Knabel (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Contributor), Bev Vincent (Contributor) 4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2021 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	You and Who by J.R. Southall (Editor), Richard Angell, Christopher Bryant 4.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sarah Jane Smith: Roving Reporter by Bob Furnell (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Richard Peevers (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Nick Walters 4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Our Man On The Hill 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2021	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Silver Archive #5: Dark Skies 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2020	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia (2013)

With a lifetime spanning across three-quarters of the twentieth century and into the early decades of the twenty-first, Gore Vidal had a ringside seat for much of what came to be termed “the American century.” It’s perhaps no wonder then that he became an active chronicler of its history and politics in novels, essays, lectures, commentary, and more besides. Nor was he limited to merely that topic

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Following their introduction in Deep Space Nine, the amoral and rogue intelligence arm of Starfleet known as Section 31 has proven to be one of the most controversial and fascinating aspects of Star Trek lore. With hindsight, it’s no surprise that th ...more
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As a child at a Christian daycare, the story of Noah and the flood fascinated me. Indeed, it’s followed me even as an agnostic adult decades later. The flood story is, after all, a story that could rightfully be called universal with variations of it ...more
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Following their introduction in Deep Space Nine, the amoral and rogue intelligence arm of Starfleet known as Section 31 has proven to be one of the most controversial and fascinating aspects of Star Trek lore. With hindsight, it’s no surprise that th ...more
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As a child at a Christian daycare, the story of Noah and the flood fascinated me. Indeed, it’s followed me even as an agnostic adult decades later. The flood story is, after all, a story that could rightfully be called universal with variations of it ...more
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“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”
― Graham Greene, Ways of Escape

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“Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

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