The Alternate Lavender Island.
Marooned guest: Alex Wallace Lavender Island, now home to Alex Wallace. Once again, we interview our guest who is about to be marooned,...
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- Nov 2, 2022
- 3 min
Vignette: And Never To Be Written
By Alex Wallace On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...
- Aug 12, 2022
- 2 min
Review: Civilizations
By Alex Wallace It always interests me, if with some trepidation, whenever someone of a literary bent attempts alternate history. At...
- Jul 22, 2022
- 25 min
Panel Discussion: What is Plausibility?
By Alexander Wallace, Gary Oswald, Matthew Kresal, Colin Salt and Mark Ciccone Salt: Plausibility. That word has spawned a million...
- Jul 19, 2022
- 2 min
In Memoriam: Eric Flint
By Alex Wallace I only ever met Eric Flint once. It was at Capclave, the convention run by the Washington Science Fiction Association in...
- Jun 22, 2022
- 3 min
Review: The Crossing
By Alex Wallace It can feel like the ISOT (a trope named after Island in the Sea of Time by S.M. Sterling wherein people from one time...
- Jun 3, 2022
- 18 min
Panel Discussion: All the Myriad Ways - Part 2
By Alexander Wallace, Adam Selby-Martin, Arturo Serrano, Colin Salt and Matt Mitrovich This is a panel discussion, modelled on live...
- Jun 1, 2022
- 12 min
Panel Discussion: All the Myriad Ways - Part 1
By Alexander Wallace, Adam Selby-Martin, Arturo Serrano, Colin Salt and Matt Mitrovich Wallace: In the Sea Lion Press forum community and...
- Apr 14, 2022
- 2 min
Review: Weird World War III
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...
- Mar 18, 2022
- 12 min
Panel Discussion: Guns and Butter - Part 2
By Alexander Wallace, Liam Connell, Arturo Serrano, Colin Salt and Alison Morton This is an experiment: a panel discussion, modelled on...
- Mar 16, 2022
- 17 min
Panel Discussion: Guns and Butter - Part 1
By Alexander Wallace, Liam Connell, Arturo Serrano, Colin Salt and Alison Morton This is an experiment: a panel discussion, modelled on...
- Feb 23, 2022
- 2 min
'Born in Salt' review
By Alex Wallace Turning a democracy into a dictatorship is one of the oldest traditional scenarios in the alternate history genre. For...
- Feb 16, 2022
- 2 min
'City of the Saints' review
By Alex Wallace One of those strange historical footnotes the budding alternate historian will come across during their informal...
- Feb 2, 2022
- 3 min
'Blue Masquerade' review
By Alexander Wallace We in the West have an unfortunate tendency to think of the 1990s as a peaceful, sometimes outright boring, decade....
- Jan 26, 2022
- 3 min
'Fire On the Mountain' review
By Alexander Wallace Alternate history has a well-deserved reputation of being dour. Our community has become quite used, perhaps too...
- Jan 19, 2022
- 3 min
'The Wandering Warriors' review
By Alexander Wallace There’s something about alternate historians and baseball. Harry Turtledove loves the sport, having written one...
- Jan 14, 2022
- 3 min
'After Hastings' review
By 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 10, 2022
- 4 min
The Tree that Exploits Its Own Surplus Value
By Alex Wallace On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...
- Jan 5, 2022
- 3 min
'Yaqteenya: the Old World' review
By Alex Wallace Today, I have the distinct pleasure to introduce to the Anglophone online alternate history something that is entirely...
- Dec 29, 2021
- 4 min
Review - '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...
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