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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


Review: Obsidian and Steel - A Novella of Alternate History, by Mark Ciccone
Review by Adam Selby-Martin I’ve mentioned in previous reviews of his works that I consider author Mark Ciccone to be one of the leading...
Apr 12, 20195 min read


Review: The Battle Over Britain by Simon Brading
Review by Adam Selby-Martin Although there's a preponderance of military history-orientated alternate history on the market, relatively...
Mar 29, 20197 min read


The audience versus Operation Sea Lion: a new type of AH experience
By Tom Black A man in naval uniform checks your name on the list. You step into a pub crammed with leather armchairs. Vera Lynn emanates...
Mar 20, 20197 min read


Review: Saving Hitler - An Alternate History Time Travel Adventure by Ian James
Review by Adam Selby-Martin In the alternate history genre, both in written form and in television and cinema, there have been a number...
Mar 15, 20195 min read


Review: Reich of Renegades by Mark Lynch
Review by Adam Selby Martin The Alternate History genre is littered with tropes, but two of the greatest are a triumphant Confederate...
Mar 1, 20195 min read


Review: Prison of Peoples (Withering of Eagles Book I) by Tom Brook
By Adam Selby-Martin There are some scenarios in the Alternate History genre that have been done to death; indeed, more than done to...
Feb 23, 20198 min read


Review: Ashes of America, by Fergus McNeill
Review by Adam Selby-Martin [Please note that the author kindly provided a review copy pre-publication in return for a fair and honest...
Feb 15, 20197 min read
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