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By Matthew Kresal The 1960s Space Race, and what might have followed a landing on the Moon, has proven a rich seam for alternate history...

By Matthew Kresal When he was interviewed on this blog earlier this year, Steven H Silver noted that the alternate history explosion he'd...

By Gary Oswald Everfair by Nisi Shawl, is a book that I knew I had to buy as soon as I saw the concept. Which is 'what if the Congo Free State was overthrown by Native Africans before it got sold to Belgium', The titular Everfair is the state that emerges within the Congo after Leopold's defeat and is run by a coalition of native Africans, African American Missionaries and European Socialists as the progressive beacon that the Congo Free State was sold as being. It is rare f

By Matthew Kresal A hundred and ten years ago, a grand ocean liner of the Edwardian era was caught up in fate and circumstances on its...

By Alex Wallace This article was first published over here by our friends at Never Was Magazine and is shared as part of our partnership...

By Matthew Kresal “You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive.” "No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century,...

By Matthew Kresal As I type these words at the start of March 2022, the war between Ukraine and Russia has entered its second week. As...

By Matthew Kresal Space flight and alternate history, they're curious bedfellows, one might say. Both are born of dreams: one of what's...

By Alex Wallace Turning a democracy into a dictatorship is one of the oldest traditional scenarios in the alternate history genre. For...

By Matthew Kresal A Nazi atomic bomb. It's the lynchpin of numerous alternate history works for an Axis victory in World War II, from the...

By Alex Wallace One of those strange historical footnotes the budding alternate historian will come across during their informal...

By Charles E.P. Murphy Duncan Brack and Iain Dale’s recurring collections of That Never Happened articles are some of the more...

By Matthew Kresal The 1960s: the decade politically dominated by the Kennedys in the United States and saw the debut of one of science...

By Alexander Wallace We in the West have an unfortunate tendency to think of the 1990s as a peaceful, sometimes outright boring, decade....

By Alexander Wallace Alternate history has a well-deserved reputation of being dour. Our community has become quite used, perhaps too...

By Matthew Kresal As Matt Mitrovich noted recently on Twitter, alternate history primary residence continues to be literature. Something...

By Alexander Wallace There’s something about alternate historians and baseball. Harry Turtledove loves the sport, having written one novel, The House of Daniel , about the sport in an America filled with the supernatural. SLP writer Colin Salt is another such example. Here, we shall discuss another example: Alan Smale’s and Rick Wilber’s short novel The Wandering Warriors. The novel begins in 1946, on a bus loaded with a minor league baseball team en route to a game in southe

By Alex Wallace The Norman Conquest of 1066 is for England what 1776 is for America: the moment that their nation was born. Despite their...

By Colin Salt Robert Radcliffe's Red Hammer 1994 is an alternate history novel about a Russo-American World War III. Unlike some of the...

By Alex Wallace Today, I have the distinct pleasure to introduce to the Anglophone online alternate history something that is entirely...