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By Alexander Wallace. This article was originally published at Nerds of a Feather and the original article can be found there. Please check that blog for more like this. The English translation's cover, courtesy Amazon. One of the things that consistently provides me with a mild degree of amusement as an alternate history fan is how writers from other genres, and especially outside the speculative fiction scene, and especially outside of genre fiction, accidentally reinvent a

By Alex Wallace. On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a specific theme (changed monthly). The theme for the 87th contest was Pride . ***** Arkady Pavlovich Semyonov did not envy the poor page who had to tell Joseph Stalin that the world was coming to an end. Perhaps, speculated Arkady, that that page had to tell the Vozhd that the end of the world was in some sense his fault. At least, he hoped t

By Alexander Wallace. It is very odd for me to think that I have been a published author for three years – that is, someone who makes...

By Alex Wallace. Oh, good. Vignette time again. This month, our vignette is from the 72nd vignette challenge, which had as its theme:...