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By Colin Salt Having the chance to read a massive number of books, particularly after my initial writings, can cue one in on literary...

By Alex Wallace I’ve talked before of algorithms giving me gold; now I turn to a different source of joy (to the world?). Here, I shall...

By Alexander Wallace It’s 2008. The bottom has fallen out from under the housing market. The world plunges into recession, leading to...

By Matthew Kresal Every four years, American voters get the chance to elect a new President. The choices voters, and sometimes the House...

By Adam Selby-Martin At the beginning of 2019 I reviewed the intriguingly titled Prison of Peoples, the debut novel of new Alternate...

By Alex Wallace I started Axiom’s End with anticipation; I am quite aware of Lindsay Ellis’ reputation online although I will say I...

By Alex Wallace “No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly...

By Matthew Kresel Alternate history truly has it's main home on the printed page. True, there have been AH movies and TV shows, but such...

By Matthew Kresal Alternate history offers us windows into worlds as they might have been. Arguably, this is a function of all fiction,...

By Gary Oswald The sad truth is I’m not actually that big a fan of professionally written alternate history books. I’m not one of those...

By Alexander Wallace Reading the original novel The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth, published in 2004, it can feel like it was...

By 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...

By Jared Kavanagh If you had one chance to change history, where would you go? What would you do? Who would you kill? Those questions...

By Alexander Wallace In certain political science (or political shitposting) circles there is a term ‘accelerationism,’ referring to a...

By 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...

By Brian Click Alternate history sometimes gets a reputation for doom and gloom. Commercially successful AH fiction tends to explore the...

By Adam Selby-Martin I was first attracted to this anthology by the unusual cover art, with its bleak, eerie monochrome background and...

By Alexander Wallace As this article goes to press online voting for the Hugo awards is still open. It will close Wednesday 22 July 2020...

By 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...

By Arthur P. Hitchofen So then, George Galloway. MP for Glasgow Kelvin, Bethnal Green and Bow, and Bradford West. Not content with...