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By Matthew Kresal. When Survival aired in November and December 1989, a number of ideas and serials were in development for Doctor Who’s 27th season. Ones that would, ultimately, go unmade when the series entered what has instead become known to its fans as the Wilderness Era. One of which has earned a place in fandom as a potential regeneration story for Sylvester McCoy’s Seven...

By Gary Oswald. Mombaza (Mombasa) in the 1593 edition of Civitates Orbis Terrarum, not long before the Zimba assault. Art in public domain, courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Portugal arrived in East Africa (modern day Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya and Somalia) in 1496 as part of their larger plan to take control of the Indian Ocean and so the spice trade. They quickly conquered the exis...

By Ryan Fleming. Harry Bell had not slept in days. He was the sole survivor of the Brunswick, whose discovery of an unidentified continent in the South Pacific had meant quick (Harry hoped) death for all his shipmates, whether they had remained aboard or been in the first party ashore. Harry had survived, and he intended to keep it that way. It was that intent that kept him from...

By Ryan Fleming. Romero directs Resident Evil.... 2's Japanese trailer. Screenshot from the 1997 Making Of video, uploaded to Youtube by the Residence of Evil channel. The zombie as it is understood in modern popular culture exists because of George A. Romero. Its ubiquity across popular culture owes a lot to video games of the 1990s, especially Resident Evil. The very first Res...

By Tom Anderson. Thus far the Surly Bonds series consists of two books, The Surly Bonds of Earth and Well Met By Starlight. The third book in the series, a direct sequel to Well Met will shortly debut and is entitled On the Wings of the Morn. To explain what this series is about is – well, a long story in itself. In the world of science fiction, since the 1960s Star Trek has bec...