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Not So Killer Shark
By Colin Salt. Bruce Begins. 1974 hardcover, picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Of the theory that behind every great 1970s movie is a...
6 days ago3 min read
The Alternate History of the Horrible Nuclear Terrorism That Never Was
By Colin Salt. Remember the nuclear bombing at the 2012 Olympics? (DVD cover from Amazon) From the moment nuclear weapons were revealed,...
Jul 153 min read
Could The British Car Industry Be Saved... And Could the Beetle Have Saved It?
By Colin Salt. Major Ivan Hirst (driver's seat) of the British Army promotes the post-war Volkswagen factory. Could British ownership...
Jun 204 min read
The Nuke Deliverers That Never Were
By Colin Salt. A prototype railcar designed to transport a Peacekeeper missile around the country in the event of possible apocalypse....
May 23 min read
Alternate Atomic Africa
By Colin Salt A Buccaneer in flight for the South African Air Force in the 1980s - when the jet was intended to deliver nuclear...
Mar 215 min read
The Alternate Anatomy of a Gridiron Line
By Colin Salt Ouch! The Dallas Cowboys tackle poor Arian Foster in a 2010 match against the Houston Texans, picture courtesy Wikimedia...
Feb 254 min read
Book Nook: Casca
Reviewed by Colin Salt. Picture courtesy Amazon. A guy who was a one-hit wonder musician in the 1960s later starts a long semi-AH fiction...
Jun 17, 20243 min read
The Grand Colonel Effect: One Author's Rules for Alternate Names
By Colin Salt. Brigadier General Norvell Coots, commander Regional Health Command Europe. Potentially a Grand Colonel. Picture courtesy...
Mar 29, 20243 min read
The Ameriyak That Never Was
By Colin Salt The Yak-40. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Soviet airliners have an understandably poor reputation and record. It’s...
Mar 6, 20242 min read
Book Nook: In The Presence of Mine Enemies, Harry Turtledove.
Reviewed by Colin Salt. It's got swastikas. What are the odds it's an Axis-victory AH? Picture courtesy Amazon. Harry Turtledove is an...
Jan 8, 20242 min read
The Greatest Sports AH You've Never Heard Of
By Colin Salt What is Sports Alternate History? Its not as easy to pinpoint as we might expect. Let's take a look at one specific...
Sep 11, 20232 min read
A Matter of Character.
By Colin Salt Colin Salt is the author of The Smithtown Unit Characterisation in alternate history fiction can take forms both familiar...
Aug 17, 20234 min read
Book Nook: Smithtown Unit - an Author Commentary
By Colin Salt I’m calling this an author commentary instead of an author review. I really don’t feel like authors should “review” their...
Jul 24, 20232 min read
Book Nook: The Seventh Secret
Reviewed by Colin Salt Swastika. Check. Blood red splash. Check. Black cover. Check. It's all a bit predictable. The Seventh Secret by...
Jun 14, 20233 min read
When Wargaming Turns from Alternate To Actual History
By Colin Salt Even by the standards of a series that was never the best at conventional storytelling (to put it mildly) to begin with,...
Mar 10, 20233 min read
The Creepypasta Queen Who Never Was
By Colin Salt It's no secret that works change from start to end. And those changes can hugely effect how that work is perceived, how the...
Jan 27, 20233 min read
Packers Win! How Green Bay's NFL team matters to alternate history
By Colin Salt Green Bay, Wisconsin, has a population of only around 100,000 people. Yet it somehow has a National Football League team...
Dec 9, 20222 min read
Arthur Hailey: Technothriller Writer?
By Colin Salt This article is adapted from a Fuldapocalypse Post. Generally speaking, alternate history questions about how some creative...
Sep 7, 20222 min read
Review: The Gamekeeper's Night Dog
By Colin Salt Alternate history writers have frequently obsessed over some tangible thing. In many cases, it's been airships. In the The...
Jul 26, 20222 min read
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 22, 202225 min read
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