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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


Ryan's Reviews - Conquistador by S M Stirling
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...
Jul 11, 20197 min read


Review: The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal
Reviewed by Max Johansson As a child, I read just about anything that came my way, but a few things stand out in my memory. Books about...
Jul 5, 20195 min read


Ryan's Reviews - How Few Remain, by Harry Turtledove
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...
Jun 27, 20198 min read


Review - Rommels Game: Victory at El Alamein & Towards the Caucasus, by Claude Stahl
By Adam Selby-Martin I've mentioned in previous reviews my disdain for some of the dominant scenarios in the Alternate History genre -...
Jun 21, 20196 min read


Ryan's reviews: Back in the USSA by Eugene Byrne and Kim Newman
By Ryan Fleming In some respects, alternate history is an examination of irony. There are many examples of serious alternate history...
Jun 13, 20199 min read


Review - Altered America (anthology; edited by Martin T. Ingham)
By Adam Selby-Martin Altered America Martin T. Ingham (ed.) Martinus Publishing Back in June 2018, I reviewed for the SLP blog the...
Jun 7, 201910 min read


Ryan's Reviews: The Two Georges, by Harry Turtledove and Richard Dreyfuss
By Ryan Fleming The two most common alternate history settings are ones based on World War II and the American Civil War. Bringing up a...
May 30, 201910 min read


Review - Alternate History Shorts: Tulip House (Paul van Rompaye) and Sons of York (Ade Grant)
By Adam Selby-Martin Alternate History Shorts Sometimes in my journeys through the highs and lows of the Alternate History genre listings...
May 24, 20196 min read


Ryan's Reviews: Fatherland, by Robert Harris
By Ryan Fleming What are the best works of alternate history? Are they the ones with the richest, most detailed, and most plausible...
May 16, 20196 min read


Review: Every Second Counts (Armistice Book 1) by Jack Cole
Review by Adam Selby-Martin As with so many titles, it was the cover art to Every Second Counts that drew my attention in as I scrolled...
May 10, 20196 min read


Ryan's Reviews: The Alteration, by Kingsley Amis
By Ryan Fleming There are a number of ideas that are recurrent in alternate history. The two most recurring being the victories of the...
May 2, 20199 min read


Review: Tales From An Alternate Earth - Eight Broadcasts from Parallel Dimensions
Review by Adam Selby-Martin As I’ve been digging through the listings for the indie Alternate History genre on the Kindle, I’ve come to...
Apr 26, 20199 min read


Ryan's Reviews: The Iron Dream, by Norman Spinrad
By Ryan Fleming Within published alternate history fiction of decades gone by there seemed to be only a few genres that would make use of...
Apr 18, 20195 min read
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