17 hours ago5 minOn the One Good Sex Scene in Alternate HistoryBy Alexander Wallace I was greatly dismayed when, after two seasons of avoiding such an obvious trap, the third season of The Man in the ...
2 days ago7 minBeau Brummell: The Most Stylish History MakerBy James Roberts This article was first published over here by our friends at Never Was Magazine and is shared as part of our partnership...
3 days ago8 minBest of All Possible Worlds: Utopian AHBy Brian Click Alternate history sometimes gets a reputation for doom and gloom. Commercially successful AH fiction tends to explore the ...
5 days ago12 minAn Alternate History of the Roman Empire: The Later SeveransBy Tim Venning In the last three articles we set up a possible timeline in the Roman Empire wherein Marcus Aurelius survives longer and s...
6 days ago6 minSplendid AmericansBy Charles EP Murphy As we’ve seen, the fate of comics – who makes them, what shape they take, where they sell – is subject to random cha...
Aug 57 minWars to End All Wars: Alternate Tales from the Trenches - Edited by N.E. WhiteBy Adam Selby-Martin I was first attracted to this anthology by the unusual cover art, with its bleak, eerie monochrome background and th...
Aug 45 minNever Mind The BollocksBy Charles EP Murphy On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories ...
Aug 311 minChains of Consequences: Die Hard With a ReferenceBy Tom Anderson The release of Die Hard in July 1988 was a seminal moment for not only the American film industry, but for world culture ...
Aug 117 minAn Alternate History of the Roman Empire: Pertinax and the SeveransBy Tim Venning In our reality, Pertinax came to power as the candidate of Commodus’ assassins in December 192 but was overthrown by the P...
Jul 315 minPODs of the Thirty Years War XXXIIBy Alex RIchards While seeing initial successes, by 1636 the French position in Alsace had stalled and she was facing renewed attacks on ...
Jul 301 minNEW RELEASE: Well Met By StarlightTom Anderson's standalone followup to The Surly Bonds of Earth is out now. “This day in human history...is the day it stops being only hu...
Jul 2911 min“Not a Heartbeat Stilled”: Jochi, eldest son of Genghis Khan, lives past 1227.By Charles Allison Genghis Khan died in September 1227, likely from complications of being thrown from a horse. The great khan did not di...
Jul 284 minUnbuilt MoscowBy Nick Ottens This article was first published over here by our friends at Never Was Magazine and is shared as part of our partnership w...
Jul 2712 minExploring Alternate Wars of the Roses: King HollandBy Tyler Parsons Henry Holland, Duke of Exeter, has much in common with his brother-in-law George, Duke of Clarence. Like Clarence, Exete...
Jul 2511 minAn Alternative History of the Roman Empire: The Last Years of Marcus AureliusBy Tim Venning In the previous article, we looked at the events of 180 AD and the death of Marcus Aurelius of illness. What would happen ...
Jul 2417 minBuy Misty For MeBy Charles EP Murphy In our discussion on girls’ comics – indeed, in anyone’s discussion of British girls’ comics – the gothic horror com...
Jul 224 minAlternate History at the 2020 HugosBy Alexander Wallace As this article goes to press online voting for the Hugo awards is still open. It will close Wednesday 22 July 2020 ...
Jul 218 minMoses in TokyoBy Deyland Somer On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...
Jul 2014 minChains of Consequences: The Obscure Presidential Assassinations, pt 2 – William McKinleyBy Tom Anderson In my previous two articles, I discussed the fact that although America has had ‘only’ four presidents assassinated in it...
Jul 1814 minAn Alternative History of the Roman Empire: An Illness in MarcomanniaBy Tim Venning The crucial events of 180 AD have inspired two major Hollywood films, the top-rated ‘Gladiator’ and the now largely forgot...
