Site of the Week: Earth Prime

The TV show Sliders may be coming to an end, but the series will live on in the alternate reality called earthprime.com. It's one of the best Sliders sites on this (or any other) Earth.

by Kenneth Newquist
Science Fiction Weekly #145, January 2000

Earth Prime documents the television series Sliders so exhaustively, it borders on being obsessive-compulsive.

While other genre fan sites often include episode reviews, few can rival earthprime.com's level of completeness. The reviewers pay excruciating attention to each episode, starting with the plot and then analyzing every prop, every line of dialogue, and every possible series connection. There are behind-the-scenes notes, brief alternate "history lessons" and enough details to make even die-hard fans' heads spin.

The "Travel" section tours worlds the Sliders have visited, and makes for a nice refresher. "Earth 211" chronicles an alternate reality where Sliders became a hit and is still going strong. This section — which includes write-ups of episodes that never were — rounds out the site nicely.

The FAQ and Cast sections of this generally well-designed site aren't finished yet, and a few of the "other sites" links don't work, but the high quality of the other sections makes up for these minor faults.