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Review: Murder on the Titania and Other Steam-Powered Adventures
Review by Gary Oswald Picture courtesy Amazon Murder on the Titania is a collection of five short stories all starring the same...
May 135 min read
What If the Adal Sultanate had Conquered Ethiopia?
By Gary Oswald. A statue of Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi in Mogadishu, picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. The Adal Sultanate was a Muslim...
Apr 189 min read
Why I Edited... Grapeshot and Guillotines
By Gary Oswald Philip K Dick is, in my humble opinion, possibly the greatest writer of speculative fiction short stories to have ever...
Apr 44 min read
Caribbean Cold War: The Many Enemies of Juan Bosch
By Gary Oswald. The flag of the Dominican Republic; picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. This is the sixth article in this series and the...
Mar 1813 min read
Review: Lone Star Reloaded
Review by Gary Oswald. The cover for the collected first half of Lone Star Reloaded. Cover courtesy Amazon. Quantum Leap has a lot to...
Mar 79 min read
Caribbean Cold War: Stoking a Race War
By Gary Oswald Flag of Guyana As discussed in a previous article , the British Empire in 1807 abolished the slave trade and stopped...
Feb 721 min read
Microfiction from the SLP Community: Part 5
By Gary Oswald, Ishan Sharma and Lilith Roberts One of the most common forms of microfiction you find on AH forums is the wikibox, an...
Mar 20, 20237 min read
Microfiction from the SLP Community: Part 1
By Gary Oswald, Mark Tentarelli, Bob Mumby and Charles EP Murphy Sea Lion Press has always had the aim of providing a platform for...
Feb 8, 202321 min read
Caribbean Cold War: The Other Iron Lady
By Gary Oswald Unlike many of its neighbours, the Commonwealth of Dominica was granted independence as a republic, with a President...
Jan 18, 202313 min read
Caribbean Cold War: The Revolution eats itself
By Gary Oswald There is nothing particularly unusual about the history of Grenada. It had been conquered by Europeans in the 17th...
Dec 14, 202215 min read
Caribbean Cold War: Anguilla vs the Empire
By Gary Oswald As discussed in the previous article of this series, the failure of the West Indies Federation of all of the UK's...
Dec 7, 202210 min read
Caribbean Cold War: Drinking Beer with the CIA
By Gary Oswald The Caribbean, and in particular the lesser Antilles, are mostly known in the west as peaceful tourist traps, where...
Nov 30, 20229 min read
Alternate History: X,Y,Z
By Gary Oswald This series will cover 26 topics related to Alternate History, as a beginners guide to the genre, through the format of...
Nov 9, 20224 min read
Africa Without the Scramble
By Gary Oswald I have written on and off about Africa during the 19th century on this blog for about three years in around 40 articles...
Oct 26, 202213 min read
Alternate History: V,W
By Gary Oswald This series will cover 26 topics related to Alternate History, as a beginners guide to the genre, through the format of...
Oct 19, 20226 min read
Alternate History: S,T,U
By Gary Oswald This series will cover 26 topics related to Alternate History, as a beginners guide to the genre, through the format of...
Oct 13, 20225 min read
Africa During the Scramble: The First Dominos
By Gary Oswald In 1830 France invaded Algiers, which had long been a centre of Islamic piracy and where French merchants did significant...
Oct 11, 20229 min read
Alternate History: P,Q,R
By Gary Oswald This series will cover 26 topics related to Alternate History, as a beginners guide to the genre, through the format of...
Oct 5, 20224 min read
Africa During the Scramble: The Rebellion that Didn't Happen
By Gary Oswald The Maasai people of Kenya and Tanzania are a nomadic group of cattle herders in the Great Rift Valley. Traditionally,...
Sep 30, 202210 min read
Alternate History: M,N,O
By Gary Oswald This series will cover 26 topics related to Alternate History, as a beginners guide to the genre, through the format of...
Sep 28, 20224 min read
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