6 days ago4 minReview: For All Mankind: Season OneBy Matthew Kresal The 1960s Space Race, and what might have followed a landing on the Moon, has proven a rich seam for alternate history...
Apr 294 minReview: BBC Radio 4's What If?By Matthew Kresal When he was interviewed on this blog earlier this year, Steven H Silver noted that the alternate history explosion he'd...
Apr 183 minReview: EverfairBy Gary Oswald Everfair by Nisi Shawl, is a book that I knew I had to buy as soon as I saw the concept. Which is 'what if the Congo Free...
Apr 156 minReview: Titanic: Adventure Out of TimeBy Matthew Kresal A hundred and ten years ago, a grand ocean liner of the Edwardian era was caught up in fate and circumstances on its...
Apr 142 minReview: Weird World War IIIBy Alex Wallace This article was first published over here by our friends at Never Was Magazine and is shared as part of our partnership...
Apr 14 minThe Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Martian MenaceBy Matthew Kresal “You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive.” "No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century,...
Mar 214 minReview: Larry Bond's CauldronBy Matthew Kresal As I type these words at the start of March 2022, the war between Ukraine and Russia has entered its second week. As...
Mar 44 minReview: Do You Dream Of Terra-Two? By Temi OhBy Matthew Kresal Space flight and alternate history, they're curious bedfellows, one might say. Both are born of dreams: one of what's...
Feb 232 min'Born in Salt' reviewBy Alex Wallace Turning a democracy into a dictatorship is one of the oldest traditional scenarios in the alternate history genre. For...
Feb 184 minReview: Parting Shot By James KunetkaBy Matthew Kresal A Nazi atomic bomb. It's the lynchpin of numerous alternate history works for an Axis victory in World War II, from the...
Feb 162 min'City of the Saints' reviewBy Alex Wallace One of those strange historical footnotes the budding alternate historian will come across during their informal...
Feb 118 minPrime Minister Boris, and other things that ... happened?By Charles E.P. Murphy Duncan Brack and Iain Dale’s recurring collections of That Never Happened articles are some of the more...
Feb 43 minReview: The Kennedy EnterpriseBy Matthew Kresal The 1960s: the decade politically dominated by the Kennedys in the United States and saw the debut of one of science...
Feb 23 min'Blue Masquerade' reviewBy Alexander Wallace We in the West have an unfortunate tendency to think of the 1990s as a peaceful, sometimes outright boring, decade....
Jan 263 min'Fire On the Mountain' reviewBy Alexander Wallace Alternate history has a well-deserved reputation of being dour. Our community has become quite used, perhaps too...
Jan 215 minSpike's Alternate History: Nazi's Win WW2 (2011)By Matthew Kresal As Matt Mitrovich noted recently on Twitter, alternate history primary residence continues to be literature. Something...
Jan 193 min'The Wandering Warriors' reviewBy Alexander Wallace There’s something about alternate historians and baseball. Harry Turtledove loves the sport, having written one...
Jan 143 min'After Hastings' reviewBy Alex Wallace The Norman Conquest of 1066 is for England what 1776 is for America: the moment that their nation was born. Despite their...
Jan 72 minRed Hammer 1994 ReviewBy Colin Salt Robert Radcliffe's Red Hammer 1994 is an alternate history novel about a Russo-American World War III. Unlike some of the...
Jan 53 min'Yaqteenya: the Old World' reviewBy Alex Wallace Today, I have the distinct pleasure to introduce to the Anglophone online alternate history something that is entirely...