Matthew Kresal

Poster featuring the TARDIS in the vortex, the BBC and Doctor Who logos beneath them. At the bottom of the poster is RETURNS CHRISTMAS 2026.

The Mouse is out! Looks like we’ll be waiting until next Christmas but, hey, one of my panel suggestions for Chicago TARDIS this year might be a moot point now!

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Review: Doctor Who: Leviathan By Matthew Kresal.The Colin Baker era of Doctor Who, filled as it was with various trials and tribulations, left behind a plethora of unmade serials. Some were scripted for the originally planned seas...

#SidewiseAward winning #author Matthew Kresal ( @kresalwrites.bsky.social ) reviews #DoctorWho: #Leviathan, a 'lost story' from the #ColinBaker era by #BrianFinch, now a #BigFinish #AudioDrama. #BBC #ScienceFiction #LostStories www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/review-...

Some news I’ve been eagerly awaiting for a long time now. And with Rob Valentine writing to boot!

Some news I’ve been eagerly awaiting for a long time now. And with Rob Valentine writing to boot!

My heart aches this afternoon. Zelda passed away unexpectedly this afternoon. I hope that in those final moments she knew how much she was loved and how much I’m going to miss hearing that purr box or having her lay on me as I type on the laptop.

Rest in peace, Baby Z.

Mail Ballots Were Found in an Amazon Box in Maine. Some Suspect a Political Dirty Trick. Read more here...

A Mainer received an Amazon package containing 250 missing ballots for a GOP-backed referendum that would restrict ballot access. Amazon claims the box contained only the expected items, leading some to ask whether the mishap was a political stunt. https://bit.ly/42DKdwZ

Having spent entirely too much in Walmart's in the early 2000s owing to my grandmother (the only person I know to this day who can spend multiple hours in there) and my parents grocery shopping, I have very little nostalgia for the place. The one thing I do miss? When it was open 24 hours.

What is the Rapture and why is a doomsday prediction spreading on TikTok? A South African man's prophecy about the Rapture has gone viral. He claims it will happen on Sept. 23 or 24, sparking both belief and mockery.

I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve lived through the apocalypse at this point. We can blame this one on TikTok, apparently. Think I’ll just keep watching Live and Let Die over here and see if the apocalypse hits mid-movie.

So if you're struggling, if the clouds around you (and all of us) seems dark at the moment, know that it won't last forever. Find yourself a lifeboat wherever and whenever you can. Live a day at a time if you have to because it's better than not being here at all. 14/14

And more besides that I wouldn't have wanted to miss for all the world, thanks to a book based off a TV show made an ocean away from me. 13/14

It's been a little over 18 years since that night. I'm now roughly twice as old as I was then and it's hard not to think about the things I almost missed out on. Both that Mr. Parkin and I ended up in an anthology together a few years ago but also smaller things... 12/14

Thankfully, Mr. Parkin didn't and in the years since has said that he's proud to had played a small role in the evening's events. 11/14

Maybe not. But it was enough and, sometimes, that's all you need. Even if it takes you years to come to terms with a brief moment in time or to message the author of the book and hope they don't think you're crazy. 10/14

Years later, as she was getting ready to leave once and for all, I told her what had happened that night. Her response?
"If that's all that stopped you, you must not have had much to live for." 9/14

So I closed the door, turned the key in the ignition, and drove home. Doctor Who became the piece of driftwood in a restless sea that kept me sane, with the Big Finish audios becoming the thing that let me tune out the manager who'd nearly made end my life. 8/14

What stopped me, you may ask? The fact that I had just a couple of days earlier on Amazon I had bought the out-of-print 1998 Doctor Who novel The Infinity Doctors by Lance Parkin. Having spent nearly $30 to acquire it, it seemed a terrible waste of money to buy it and not read it. 7/14

With those words in my mind, I drove a short distance to the nearby Guntersville bridge and pulled over once I reached the top. I turned the engine off, leaving the keys in the ignition, and got as far as opening the door before a thought occurred to me. 6/14

Terrible and insulting things were said, so much so that a coworker many years our senior had to step into the conversation. In another time and place, I'd probably have stood up for myself. Instead, I left quietly, saying to myself five simple but horrible words: “I can't do this anymore." 5/14

Then came the night in the middle of it all when the straw broke the camel's back. A particular manager who hated my guts decided to pick a particular evening to give me a verbal pounding for all I was (or wasn’t, in their eyes) worth about something that was ultimately a non-issue. 4/14

Then it all fell apart. I ended up having to drop out of high school, my parents marriage came apart at the seams, and I suddenly realized I was trapped at a job that I'd reluctantly taken to appease my parents. I felt trapped in an endless now of misery, yelling, and gloom. 3/14

It was 2007 and I was 18 years old. It was my senior year of high school and, like so many of us at that age, I thought I had my life figured out. College, film school, finding a girlfriend, you name it. It was all right there in front of me as the year began. 2/14

The 10th of September is #WorldSuicidePreventionDay. Not an easy subject to ever broach & one with a lot of stigma still attached to it. But I've come to believe that if telling my story might help someone else, it's a worthwhile thing to do. So here's my story of how #DoctorWho saved my life. 1/14

A 2023 Video Of Charlie Kirk Saying Gun Deaths Are "Worth It" Is Going Viral People are saying Kirk's comments aged like milk.

They never think it can happen to them, too. Never.

I would not say gun deaths are worth it. Sorry. No.

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‪Enjoy a good historically based spy story? Or like a good "what if?" alternate history tale? Our Man on The Hill asks what might have happened if the Cold War’s most infamous Red Hunter was a Soviet agent all along.‬

I’m reminded that Alex Jones and Infowars spent YEARS drumming up the idea that Clinton, Bush, and Obama were going to invoke arcane US laws to round up people and send troops into cities. Then after Trump got elected, they pivoted to saying he SHOULD do all of it against the Left to save America.

Review: Doctor Who: The Dark Planet By Matthew Kresal.Early 1960s Doctor Who is at times an extraordinary thing to behold: a series whose makers were striving for excellence and big ideas in often antiquated studios and with a fraction ...

#SidewiseAward winning #author Matthew Kresal ( @kresalwrites.bsky.social ) reviews the #BigFinish #audiodrama adaptation of a lost #DoctorWho script from 1965, "The Dark Planet". www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/review-...

Apollo Goes To Venus: The Manned Venus Flyby By Matthew KresalHalloween 1973.A Saturn V rocket sits on Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. On top of it, three astronauts await lift-off. The journey they will soon be embarking ...

#SidewiseAward winning #author Matthew Kresal ( @kresalwrites.bsky.social ) looks at #NASA 's little-known post- #Apollo plan to send #astronauts to - or at least past - #Venus. #SpaceRace www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/apollo-...

A response I saw on Instagram in regards to someone complaining about the new Superman movie and how they felt Superman didn’t “change or grow” during it. Which I’d never thought about before but which is 100% on point.