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

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

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

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

By Alexander Wallace The alternate history genre grew, ultimately, out of portal fantasy stories in science fiction magazines. Despite...

By Alexander Wallace The author was provided an Advanced Review Copy of this novel. Sometimes, the people in the media we fawn over are...

By Alexander Wallace Let us be frank for a moment: our societies love serial killers. We have created terms like ‘morbid fascination’ to...

By Alex Wallace Gary Oswald, this blog’s editor, once called Inklings press a sister publisher to Sea Lion Press. It’s a fair thing to...

By Alexander Wallace Regular readers of my work on this blog will know how fond I am of Liam Connell’s exhortation to write alternate...

By Alex Wallace Louisiana Representative Robert Broussard’s 1910 proposal to import hippopotamuses to the United States was an odd...

By Alexander Wallace D. G. Valdron’s Axis of Andes duology was recently reviewed on this site. It is a work that, for better or for...

By Alex Wallace Sometimes, good things come in small packages. Such was The Eagle and the Bluebird, a story of only thirty-eight pages by...

By Alexander Wallace After the bold and daring adventures of American space exploration ended, science fiction lovers of all stripes have...

By Alexander Wallace I will admit that I write this article with some reticence; it feels downright pompous to say I have the gall to...

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

By Alexander Wallace Harry Turtledove has a special love for the Byzantine Empire. He has written a whole fantasy series with Byzantium...

By Alexander Wallace I spent a period of about four months, from December 2020 to March 2021, reading almost nonstop about the fate of...