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

By Charles E.P. Murphy Over a period of years, quietly, Ireland is conquered. A highly coordinated buyout of financial assets is combined...

By Matthew Kresal As I type these words at the tail end of summer 2021, Jodie Whittaker has played the Doctor in the BBC's Doctor Who...

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 Matthew Kresal People come to alternate history in different ways. For some, it's through historical moments and scenarios, wondering...

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 Matthew Kresal There's a line said by Anthony Ainley's Master in the 1983 anniversary story The Five Doctors that's become something...

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 Colin Salt Harry Turtledove's breakout novel, Guns of the South is the story of time travellers altering the American Civil War by...

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

By Matthew Kresal Space flight, both human and robotic, offers up a rich vein for practitioners of alternate history to mine stories....

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 Colin Salt Long Reach was a novel that I started off with iffy feelings towards, but which has grown on me as I recognized the rarity...

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 Matthew Kresal In 1986, Doctor Who came back from an eighteen-month hiatus with an ambitious, season-long story arc. A season that saw...

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

By Matthew Kresal Whether we view alternate history as a setting or a genre in its own right, even a cursory overview of it shows...

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

By Matthew Kresal The late Terrance Dicks, script editor of Doctor Who from 1969-74 and who perhaps wrote for more incarnations of the...