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Spike's Alternate History: Nazi's Win WW2 (2011)
By Matthew Kresal As Matt Mitrovich noted recently on Twitter, alternate history primary residence continues to be literature. Something...
Jan 21, 20225 min read


'The Wandering Warriors' review
By Alexander Wallace There’s something about alternate historians and baseball. Harry Turtledove loves the sport, having written one...
Jan 19, 20223 min read


'After Hastings' review
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...
Jan 14, 20223 min read


Red Hammer 1994 Review
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...
Jan 7, 20222 min read


'Yaqteenya: the Old World' review
By Alex Wallace Today, I have the distinct pleasure to introduce to the Anglophone online alternate history something that is entirely...
Jan 5, 20223 min read


Review - 'To Climates Unknown'
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...
Dec 29, 20214 min read


Review: The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal
By Matthew Kresal The Moon, our nearest celestial neighbor, has long occupied a place in the human imagination. Before Apollo 11 landed...
Dec 24, 20214 min read


'Through the Dark Mirror' review
By Alex Wallace One of the oldest forms of alternate history is the portal fantasy involving real history. Much of the genesis of the...
Dec 15, 20212 min read


'Sleep and the Soul' review
By Alexander Wallace Greg Egan is not an author I associate with alternate history; he strikes me as a more modern version of Arthur C....
Dec 8, 20212 min read


'Big Stick' review
By Alexander Wallace Of the entire constellation of things that alternate historians love, two of the brightest stars are Theodore...
Dec 1, 20212 min read


I, Alastair & The Inferno Universe
By Matthew Kresal Some of the first exposures to alternate history people often come across are when popular franchises tell such tales,...
Nov 26, 20215 min read


'The Last Days of New Paris' review
By Alex Wallace We don’t generally think of China Miéville as an alternate history author. We know him to be the standard bearer of the...
Nov 24, 20213 min read


Series Review: The Survivalist
By Colin Salt There is one plot element late in the either 27 or 29 book Survivalist series [depending on if you count the two...
Nov 19, 20215 min read


Doctor Who Unbound: A Storm Of Angels
By Matthew Kresal The Elizabethan age of British history often is portrayed as something of a golden age. The Virgin Queen on the throne,...
Nov 12, 20215 min read


'Mem' Review
By Alex Wallace There is a small but steadily more noticeable trend of more ‘mainstream’ science fiction and fantasy writers using...
Nov 10, 20212 min read


'Summerland' review
By Alexander Wallace When writers want to bring back the feel of interwar pulp fiction, they will of course exploit the technology and...
Nov 3, 20212 min read


'Anti-Ice' review
By Alexander Wallace When I was reading many of the spinoffs of H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds, no work impressed me more than...
Oct 27, 20213 min read


On Marvel's 'What If...?' as Alternate History
By Alexander Wallace My august colleague Colin Salt remarked on the Sea Lion Press forum that Marvel’s What If…?, recently having...
Oct 20, 20213 min read


'Dark Rose' review
By Charles E.P. Murphy Over a period of years, quietly, Ireland is conquered. A highly coordinated buyout of financial assets is combined...
Oct 18, 20217 min read


Doctor Who Unbound: Exile
By Matthew Kresal As I type these words at the tail end of summer 2021, Jodie Whittaker has played the Doctor in the BBC's Doctor Who...
Oct 15, 20214 min read
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