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By Colin Salt After hearing about them for so long, I felt I had to read the actual Draka books for myself. Remembering their reputation as an alternate hist...

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 the Roman-Catholic ...

By Adam Selby-Martin This review was previously posted on the Sci-Fi and Fantasy Reviewer on 25 January 2018 I’ve long maintained that perhaps the most impor...

By Adam Selby-Martin In my recent review of Peter Tsouras’ Napoleon Victorious, I briefly discussed the idea that the Alternate History genre can roughly be ...

By Adam Selby-Martin In my time spent exploring Alternate History fiction , I’ve come to the (no doubt entirely unoriginal) conclusion that there are two dif...

By 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 alternate realities, d...

By Adam Selby-Martin As with so many Alternate History titles that I review on this blog, it was the cover art for Those in Peril that drew my attention as I...

By Adam Selby-Martin I’ve found that, as a reviewer of Alternate History titles, the books and anthologies that I review tend to fall into three distinct cat...

By Adam Selby-Martin [Please note that the author kindly provided a review copy in return for an honest review of this title] One of the reasons I started re...

By Adam Selby-Martin [Please note that the publisher kindly provided a review copy in return for an honest review of this title] It wouldn’t be too controver...

By Adam Selby-Martin I've previously reviewed one of Marc Jones' alternate history titles, The Fireflies of Port Stanley, and was thoroughly impressed by it....

By Colin Salt Chris Nuttall is a prolific writer of various genres, including alternate history. In Storm Front, the opening of a series, he writes in that w...

By Adam Selby-Martin [Please note that the author kindly provided a review copy in return for an honest review of this title] Sometimes sifting through socia...

By Adam Selby-Martin In my teenage years (so long ago now) I became interested military fiction based around a theoretical Third World War, and for a good po...

By Adam Selby-Martin As I've discussed before in these reviews, there seem to be two distinct patterns in regards to the use of a counterfactual narrative in...

By Ryan Fleming How much is alternate history just a subgenre of science fiction? For a lot of the history of the genre it seemed as though the two were inte...

By Ryan Fleming The two most widely used ideas in alternate history are that of Nazi Germany emerging as a victor from the Second World War and the Confedera...

By Adam Selby-Martin I've mentioned in previous reviews my disdain for some of the dominant scenarios in the Alternate History genre - Dixie Victorious, the ...

By Ryan Fleming In some respects, alternate history is an examination of irony. There are many examples of serious alternate history there are moments when c...

By Adam Selby-Martin Altered America Martin T. Ingham (ed.) Martinus Publishing Back in June 2018, I reviewed for the SLP blog the alternate history antholog...