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Righteous Kill by Ted Lapkin
By Adam Selby-Martin Given how difficult it is to locate Alternate History fiction on the Kindle listings these days – genuine AH fiction...
Jun 1, 20206 min read


Something Real: Moe Berg Mysteries #1
By Adam Selby-Martin I first encountered the reality-hopping baseball player and spy Moe Berg in the short story Bonny Boy by Rick Wilber...
May 9, 20204 min read


Review - Fugitives of Fate by T.L. Morganfield
By Gary Oswald Historical Romances, like all stories set in the past, have a variable level of historical accuracy. Some authors clearly...
Apr 25, 20204 min read


Review - The Fall of Rorke's Drift by John Laband
By Gary Oswald Ideas are cheap. Most people can come up with a thousand concepts for books. The skill is in the execution. In bringing...
Apr 13, 20205 min read


The Draka Series In Hindsight
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...
Feb 15, 20204 min read


Review - The Fireflies of Port Stanley, by Marc Hywel Jones
By Adam Selby-Martin The question that Marc H Jones poses in The Fireflies of Port Stanley is quite simple, in one way, and yet in...
Jan 3, 20203 min read


Review - Red Delta: A Novel of Alternate History, by Mark Ciccone
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...
Dec 20, 20195 min read


Reviews: 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...
Dec 6, 20198 min read


Reviews: 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...
Nov 22, 20196 min read


Reviews: In The Cage Where Your Saviours Hide, by Malcolm Mackay
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...
Nov 8, 20194 min read


Reviews - Those in Peril, by Theogony Books, edited by Chris Kennedy and James Young
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...
Oct 25, 20197 min read


Review - Stalingrad Run: A Snapshot Universe Novel, by Dale Cozort
By Adam Selby-Martin In the parlance of the Alternate History genre, an ISOT scenario (named after the first novel to use the concept,...
Oct 11, 20194 min read


Review - Defying Conventions, by Joseph W. Knowles
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...
Sep 27, 20194 min read


Review - The Oregon War, by T T Drewett
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...
Sep 13, 20195 min read


Review - Alternate Peace; Steven H Silver & Joshua Palmatier (eds.), Zombies Need Brains
By Adam Selby-Martin [Please note that the publisher kindly provided a review copy in return for an honest review of this title] It...
Aug 30, 20197 min read


Review - Cato's Cavalry Volume I, by Marc Jones
By Adam Selby-Martin I've previously reviewed one of Marc Jones' alternate history titles, The Fireflies of Port Stanley, and was...
Aug 16, 20194 min read


Review: Storm Front, by Chris Nuttall
By Colin Salt Chris Nuttall is a prolific writer of various genres, including alternate history. In Storm Front, the opening of a series,...
Aug 8, 20193 min read


Review - War Plan Crimson, by Michael Cnudde
By Adam Selby-Martin [Please note that the author kindly provided a review copy in return for an honest review of this title] Sometimes...
Aug 2, 20195 min read


Review- Northern Fury: H-Hour, by Bart Gauvin and Joel Radunzel, published by Ursus Rising
By Adam Selby-Martin In my teenage years (so long ago now) I became interested military fiction based around a theoretical Third World...
Jul 25, 20196 min read


Reviews: Redchapel, by Mike Resnick
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...
Jul 19, 20194 min read
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