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By Tom Anderson Mention ‘comics’ and, today, your first thought is quite likely to be of larger-than-life American superhero comic books. Yet the word ‘comic...

By Andy Cooke Last time, I got up to the marathon trip of Gemini 7 – where Frank Borman and Jim Lovell (who would later be part of the first Apollo crew to c...

By Charles EP Murphy Running from 1937 to 2012, DC Thomson’s The Dandy is still one of the longest-running comics on the Earth. For every week – except for f...

By Gary Oswald Warning: This is an article about a Genocide and will be tough reading. As discussed at the end of the last article, the first blow to the goo...

By Tom Anderson Ever since the power of science and technology to change the world was widely recognised, people have grappled with the dichotomy that they c...

By Andy Cooke Fiction holds up a mirror to reality. As well as our deep-seated urge to create a narrative structure around the world in which we live, the s...

By Gary Oswald Sea Lion Press is built around producing Alternative or Alternate History content and implicit in that goal is the assumption that there is va...

By Alex Richards When Amalie Elisabeth began her term as Regent of Hesse-Kassel for her son William VI, the Landgraviate was in a state of near-total defeat,...

By Tom Anderson In the roughly 45 years of the Cold War, the great naval buildup by the United States and her allies, and the more modest and asymmetric one ...

By Andy Cooke Following the successful completion of the Mercury programme (and NASA managing to sidestep a series of potential disasters), the next step was...

By Charles EP Murphy The Avengers and Justice League go to war! Wonder Woman wields the hammer of Thor! Peter Parker tries to go on a date with Lois Lane! Th...

By Gary Oswald The residents of the area that is currently the country of Namibia arrived there in a series of different migrations. The first residents were...

By Tom Anderson The game of Pachinko is almost synonymous with modern Japan. Popular in part because it represents a loophole in otherwise strict anti-gambli...

By Francis Castanos The story of the Space Shuttle is a complicated and tortured one. So have a drink or, better yet, a shot of dark brown coffee and fasten ...

By David Flin You expect fiction to make adjustments to historical accuracy because “everyone knows” something different. In an earlier article, reference wa...

By Alex Richards Of the three main states left out of the Peace of Prague, arguably the most surprising at first glance was the decision to exclude the Landg...

By Tom Anderson In the previous article, I noted that while there were a number of proxy conflicts between East and West during the Cold War, these were pred...

By Andy Cooke When you’re pushing the limits of human knowledge – and doing so in a race, to boot – you’re going to be raking some risks. Such was the situat...

By David Flin Writing an Alternate History story involves picking a viewpoint. You can use different viewpoints, but generally, they are either looking at th...

By Charlton Cussans The later tragedy of Apartheid within a unified South Africa, with its stark (although arbitrary) lines of racial division, would disguis...