Sep 94 minReview - The Plot Against AmericaBy Alexander Wallace Reading the original novel The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth, published in 2004, it can feel like it was mean...
Sep 75 minThe Moscow Option: An Alternative Second World WarBy Adam Selby-Martin While it can be fun to read Alternate History fiction, from time to time I do like to dip my toe into the more acade...
Sep 45 minReview: Time and Time AgainBy Jared Kavanagh If you had one chance to change history, where would you go? What would you do? Who would you kill? Those questions c...
Aug 265 minThe World Set FreeBy Alexander Wallace In certain political science (or political shitposting) circles there is a term ‘accelerationism,’ referring to a be...
Aug 243 minKirov reviewBy Colin Salt The Kirov series is one of the most out-there works of alternate history I’ve read, and possibly the most. I mean this in a...
Aug 108 minBest of All Possible Worlds: Utopian AHBy Brian Click Alternate history sometimes gets a reputation for doom and gloom. Commercially successful AH fiction tends to explore the ...
Aug 57 minWars to End All Wars: Alternate Tales from the Trenches - Edited by N.E. WhiteBy Adam Selby-Martin I was first attracted to this anthology by the unusual cover art, with its bleak, eerie monochrome background and th...
Jul 224 minAlternate History at the 2020 HugosBy Alexander Wallace As this article goes to press online voting for the Hugo awards is still open. It will close Wednesday 22 July 2020 ...
Jun 275 minAlliance: MetamorphosisBy Adam Selby-Martin As I think I’ve alluded to in previous reviews for this blog, if you took a survey of published Alternate History fi...
Jun 134 minReview: QueenswayBy Arthur P. Hitchofen So then, George Galloway. MP for Glasgow Kelvin, Bethnal Green and Bow, and Bradford West. Not content with foundi...
Jun 16 minRighteous Kill by Ted LapkinBy Adam Selby-Martin Given how difficult it is to locate Alternate History fiction on the Kindle listings these days – genuine AH fiction...
May 94 minSomething Real: Moe Berg Mysteries #1By Adam Selby-Martin I first encountered the reality-hopping baseball player and spy Moe Berg in the short story Bonny Boy by Rick Wilber...
Apr 254 minReview - Fugitives of Fate by T.L. MorganfieldBy Gary Oswald Historical Romances, like all stories set in the past, have a variable level of historical accuracy. Some authors clearly ...
Apr 135 minReview - The Fall of Rorke's Drift by John LabandBy Gary Oswald Ideas are cheap. Most people can come up with a thousand concepts for books. The skill is in the execution. In bringing th...
Feb 154 minThe Draka Series In HindsightBy Colin Salt After hearing about them for so long, I felt I had to read the actual Draka books for myself. Remembering their reputation ...
Feb 14 minGerman Alternate History: Part 2 - Das Königsprojekt ("The Royal Project")By Max Sinister SPOILERS AHEAD! This book (published in 1974) by Carl Amery, whom I mentioned in my first post, is based on the idea that...
Dec 20, 20195 minReview - Red Delta: A Novel of Alternate History, by Mark CicconeBy Adam Selby-Martin This review was previously posted on the Sci-Fi and Fantasy Reviewer on 25 January 2018 I’ve long maintained that pe...
Dec 6, 20198 minReviews: The Hitler Options, edited by Kenneth Macksey (Published by Frontline Books)By Adam Selby-Martin In my recent review of Peter Tsouras’ Napoleon Victorious, I briefly discussed the idea that the Alternate History g...
Nov 22, 20196 minReviews: Napoleon Victorious, by Peter G. Tsouras (published by Greenhill Books)By Adam Selby-Martin In my time spent exploring Alternate History fiction , I’ve come to the (no doubt entirely unoriginal) conclusion th...
Nov 8, 20194 minReviews: In The Cage Where Your Saviours Hide, by Malcolm MackayBy Adam Selby-Martin I do have a soft spot for a good, immersive crime thriller, and there have certainly been a number of them set in al...
