Jul 262 minReview: The Gamekeeper's Night DogBy Colin Salt Alternate history writers have frequently obsessed over some tangible thing. In many cases, it's been airships. In the The...
Jun 223 minReview: The CrossingBy Alex Wallace It can feel like the ISOT (a trope named after Island in the Sea of Time by S.M. Sterling wherein people from one time...
Jun 154 minReview: Sword, Stone and Table (edited by Swapna Krishna & Jenn Northington)By Jared Kavanagh The Arthurian legendarium is one of the most extensive corpuses in literature, having been told and retold more times...
May 275 minReview: For All Mankind: Season TwoBy Matthew Kresal In 2019, Apple TV+ brought viewers an alternate history vision of a space race that never ended. Created by Ronald D....
May 134 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...