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By Ryan Fleming . Alternate history anthologies focused on a single country were nothing new by the time we began work on The Scottish Anthology , nor were themed anthologies unknown in other genres, in alternate history, or even from Sea Lion Press by the time of those first nation-based anthologies. While this was my first effort as an editor of a fiction anthology, I had been proudly featured in anthologies edited by others in both alternate history and other genres. But w

By Charles E.P. Murphy "Chamberlaaaaiiiiin!" King Arthur strode through Commons like judgement, his face pale as the grave, his sword rusted and stained with the blood of Britain's enemies, his finger accusing the man at the bench. "You were warned that a pointless war with our Germanic brethren would bring the nation to ruin! Now--" His sword swung and the Prime Minister... ...ran away on all four legs barking. "Eh....?" And the four MPs on either side of Arthur suddenly ya

By Tom Anderson. Waiting to go at Launch Pad 39B, 17th Ja 2026. Picture public domain by NASA, courtesy Wikimedia Commons. The 2000s Star Trek prequel series Enterprise had a controversial opening sequence; not so much for the imagery used (which shows technological progress in exploration from wooden sailing ships to aeroplanes to spacecraft) but for the poppy theme song ‘Faith of the Heart’, very different from the approach taken in previous series. Despite being poorly re

By Matthew Kresal. The 2016 edition. In the 1950s, the Golden Age of Comics gave way to the Silver Age. The real world changed and, with attention brought to the comics as a result, some old characters retired or evolved while a new generation of heroes came to the fore, culminating at DC with the creation of the Justice League. Suppose for a moment that there was an alternate history where the Golden and Silver Age characters existed in and interacted with the real world of