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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 The Moon, our nearest celestial neighbor, has long occupied a place in the human imagination. Before Apollo 11 landed...

By Alex Wallace One of the oldest forms of alternate history is the portal fantasy involving real history. Much of the genesis of the...

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....

By Alexander Wallace Of the entire constellation of things that alternate historians love, two of the brightest stars are Theodore...

By Matthew Kresal Some of the first exposures to alternate history people often come across are when popular franchises tell such tales,...

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...

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...

By Matthew Kresal The Elizabethan age of British history often is portrayed as something of a golden age. The Virgin Queen on the throne,...

By Alex Wallace There is a small but steadily more noticeable trend of more ‘mainstream’ science fiction and fantasy writers using...

By Alexander Wallace When writers want to bring back the feel of interwar pulp fiction, they will of course exploit the technology and...

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...

By Alexander Wallace My august colleague Colin Salt remarked on the Sea Lion Press forum that Marvel’s What If…?, recently having...

By Charles E.P. Murphy Over a period of years, quietly, Ireland is conquered. A highly coordinated buyout of financial assets is combined...

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...

By Alexander Wallace The alternate history genre grew, ultimately, out of portal fantasy stories in science fiction magazines. Despite...

By Alexander Wallace The author was provided an Advanced Review Copy of this novel. Sometimes, the people in the media we fawn over are...

By Matthew Kresal People come to alternate history in different ways. For some, it's through historical moments and scenarios, wondering...

By Alex Wallace Gary Oswald, this blog’s editor, once called Inklings press a sister publisher to Sea Lion Press. It’s a fair thing to...

By Matthew Kresal There's a line said by Anthony Ainley's Master in the 1983 anniversary story The Five Doctors that's become something...