Apr 142 minReview: Weird World War IIIBy Alex Wallace This article was first published over here by our friends at Never Was Magazine and is shared as part of our partnership...
Mar 1812 minPanel Discussion: Guns and Butter - Part 2By Alexander Wallace, Liam Connell, Arturo Serrano, Colin Salt and Alison Morton This is an experiment: a panel discussion, modelled on...
Mar 1617 minPanel Discussion: Guns and Butter - Part 1By Alexander Wallace, Liam Connell, Arturo Serrano, Colin Salt and Alison Morton This is an experiment: a panel discussion, modelled on...
Feb 232 min'Born in Salt' reviewBy Alex Wallace Turning a democracy into a dictatorship is one of the oldest traditional scenarios in the alternate history genre. For...
Feb 162 min'City of the Saints' reviewBy Alex Wallace One of those strange historical footnotes the budding alternate historian will come across during their informal...
Feb 23 min'Blue Masquerade' reviewBy Alexander Wallace We in the West have an unfortunate tendency to think of the 1990s as a peaceful, sometimes outright boring, decade....
Jan 263 min'Fire On the Mountain' reviewBy Alexander Wallace Alternate history has a well-deserved reputation of being dour. Our community has become quite used, perhaps too...
Jan 193 min'The Wandering Warriors' reviewBy Alexander Wallace There’s something about alternate historians and baseball. Harry Turtledove loves the sport, having written one...
Jan 143 min'After Hastings' reviewBy Alex Wallace The Norman Conquest of 1066 is for England what 1776 is for America: the moment that their nation was born. Despite their...
Jan 104 minThe Tree that Exploits Its Own Surplus ValueBy Alex Wallace On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...
Jan 53 min'Yaqteenya: the Old World' reviewBy Alex Wallace Today, I have the distinct pleasure to introduce to the Anglophone online alternate history something that is entirely...
Dec 29, 20214 minReview - 'To Climates Unknown'By Alex Wallace This article was first published over here by our friends at Never Was Magazine and is shared as part of our partnership...
Dec 22, 20213 minAt the 2021 Sidewise Awards Ceremony at DISCON IIIBy Alexander Wallace At four P.M, Eastern Standard time on December eighteenth, 2021, a large number of fans of the alternate history...
Dec 15, 20212 min'Through the Dark Mirror' reviewBy Alex Wallace One of the oldest forms of alternate history is the portal fantasy involving real history. Much of the genesis of the...
Dec 8, 20212 min'Sleep and the Soul' reviewBy Alexander Wallace Greg Egan is not an author I associate with alternate history; he strikes me as a more modern version of Arthur C....
Dec 1, 20212 min'Big Stick' reviewBy Alexander Wallace Of the entire constellation of things that alternate historians love, two of the brightest stars are Theodore...
Nov 24, 20213 min'The Last Days of New Paris' reviewBy 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...
Nov 17, 20216 minThe 'Lady Astronaut' Series as Climate Change Wish FulfillmentBy Alex Wallace Unfortunately, I was relatively late to read Mary Robinette Kowal’s Lady Astronaut series (the first two volumes of which...
Nov 10, 20212 min'Mem' ReviewBy Alex Wallace There is a small but steadily more noticeable trend of more ‘mainstream’ science fiction and fantasy writers using...
Nov 3, 20212 min'Summerland' reviewBy Alexander Wallace When writers want to bring back the feel of interwar pulp fiction, they will of course exploit the technology and...