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By Alexander Wallace Of the entire constellation of things that alternate historians love, two of the brightest stars are Theodore...

By Sarah Zama Sarah Zama, @jazzfeathers on twitter and a writer of historical fantasy stories set in the 1920s, did 26 blog posts in 2018...

By Matthew Kresal Some of the first exposures to alternate history people often come across are when popular franchises tell such tales,...

By Alex Wallace We don’t generally think of China Miéville as an alternate history author. We know him to be the standard bearer of the...

By Tom Anderson One difficulty of writing works of fiction set in our own world, which is arguably common to all genres but particularly...

By Colin Salt There is one plot element late in the either 27 or 29 book Survivalist series [depending on if you count the two...

By Alex Wallace Unfortunately, I was relatively late to read Mary Robinette Kowal’s Lady Astronaut series (the first two volumes of which...

By Sarah Zama Sarah Zama, @jazzfeathers on twitter and a writer of historical fantasy stories set in the 1920s, did 26 blog posts in 2018...

By Matthew Kresal The Elizabethan age of British history often is portrayed as something of a golden age. The Virgin Queen on the throne,...

By Alex Wallace There is a small but steadily more noticeable trend of more ‘mainstream’ science fiction and fantasy writers using...

By Tom Anderson In the last three articles I’ve discussed the concept of the franchise reboot (itself somewhat hard to define) and the...

By Paul Hynes On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...

By Alexander Wallace When writers want to bring back the feel of interwar pulp fiction, they will of course exploit the technology and...

By Colin Salt World War II Germany is infamous for producing a ton of paper wunderwaffe that its severely resource-constrained,...

By Matthew Kresal In 1967, Sean Connery departed the role of James Bond following a souring relationship with the franchise's producers,...

By Alexander Wallace When I was reading many of the spinoffs of H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds, no work impressed me more than...

By Tom Anderson In this third article on the subject of reboots and allied forms of fiction, I’ll be discussing a phenomenon which is not...

By Colin Salt One of the most bizarre footnotes in military history is the tale of Leonid Kurchevsky, an interwar Soviet weapons...

By Alexander Wallace My august colleague Colin Salt remarked on the Sea Lion Press forum that Marvel’s What If…?, recently having...

By Charles E.P. Murphy Over a period of years, quietly, Ireland is conquered. A highly coordinated buyout of financial assets is combined...