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The Trial of the Raj: The Impeachment of Warren Hastings
By Ishan Sharma. Portrait of Hastings, painted by Johann Zoffany, a few years before the trial; image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Over...
2 days ago15 min read


Review: Murder on the Titania and Other Steam-Powered Adventures
Review by Gary Oswald Picture courtesy Amazon Murder on the Titania is a collection of five short stories all starring the same...
5 days ago5 min read


Fiction Friction: The Perils of Paleonomism
By Thomas Anderson. Which unexpected famous figure lurks within...? (Image courtesy Amazon) ‘Paleonomism’ is a term I’ve just made up,...
May 97 min read


Why I Wrote... Against the Devil's Men
By Alexander Rooksmoor Sea Lion Press has published over a hundred alternate history books so far... but what leads an author to pick the...
May 68 min read


The Nuke Deliverers That Never Were
By Colin Salt. A prototype railcar designed to transport a Peacekeeper missile around the country in the event of possible apocalypse....
May 23 min read


Vignette: The Proliferation Question
By John A. Hopkins On the Sea Lion Press Forums , we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on...
Apr 298 min read


Tales From Development Hell: Night Creatures
By Ryan Fleming. Vincent Price stumbles through the end of the world (taken from Last Man on Earth). Since the birth of film censorship,...
Apr 259 min read


Night Mares Season 3
By Paul Leone In our world, this show does not exist - but in another world, you can find DVD boxsets right next to Aella the Amazon  and...
Apr 226 min read


What If the Adal Sultanate had Conquered Ethiopia?
By Gary Oswald. A statue of Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi in Mogadishu, picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. The Adal Sultanate was a Muslim...
Apr 189 min read


Review: Remember, Remember
Review by Charles EP Murphy The cover of the original hardback, picture courtesy Amazon. Delphine, a young domestic slave, escaped from...
Apr 157 min read


Night Mares Season 2
By Paul Leone In our world, this show does not exist - but in another world, you can find DVD boxsets right next to Aella the Amazon  and...
Apr 115 min read


Review: Doctor Who: Genesis of the Cybermen
By Matthew Kresal. Cover of Genesis of the Cybermen, picture courtesy Big Finish From their first appearance in 1966’s The Tenth Planet ,...
Apr 87 min read


Why I Edited... Grapeshot and Guillotines
By Gary Oswald Philip K Dick is, in my humble opinion, possibly the greatest writer of speculative fiction short stories to have ever...
Apr 44 min read


Night Mares Season 1
By  Paul Leone In our world, this show does not exist - but in another world, you can find DVD boxsets right next to Aella the Amazon ...
Apr 16 min read


Vignette: Guilty Clem
By Paul Hynes. On the Sea Lion Press Forums , we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...
Mar 286 min read


Tales from Development Hell: Ridley Scott's Dune
By Ryan Fleming Ridley Scott doing a Q&A in 2015, picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. There have been many attempts to adapt Frank...
Mar 2510 min read


Alternate Atomic Africa
By Colin Salt  A Buccaneer in flight for the South African Air Force in the 1980s - when the jet was intended to deliver nuclear...
Mar 215 min read


Caribbean Cold War: The Many Enemies of Juan Bosch
By Gary Oswald. The flag of the Dominican Republic; picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. This is the sixth article in this series and the...
Mar 1813 min read


Review: Doctor Who: Operation Werewolf
By Matthew Kresal Cover of Operation Werewolf, from Big Finish The Second World War has loomed large over western popular culture ever...
Mar 147 min read


Fiction Friction: The Death of Zeitgeist and the Reflective Superheroes of the Mid-2000s
By Thomas Anderson Not THAT Zeitgeist who died in the mid-2000s (and got better) - art by Mike Allred, from the cover of X-Force 116,...
Mar 1115 min read
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