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By Tom Anderson On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write vignettes on a...

By Tom Anderson Looking back from the second decade of the twenty-first century, we can see that the fantasy genre has gone from strength...

By Tom Anderson Look at a Periodic Table and you will see that many of the abbreviations of the chemical elements seem perfectly...

By Tom Anderson In this series of ‘Consequences in AH’ articles, we’ve already seen how an innovative word seen as cheap and tawdry at...

by Tom Anderson Welcome to the latest in our series of first chapters showcasing our books. Today, we have Not An English Word, by Tom...

By Tom Anderson Three ubiquitous forms of transport we now take for granted are the bicycle, the car and the aeroplane (or airplane in...

By Tom Anderson The game of chess has captured the human imagination perhaps more than any other. Chess probably originated in India at...

By Tom Anderson Before the nineteenth century, there was no means to record a human voice, music or any other sounds. Clockwork...

By Tom Anderson This article on Consequences in Alternate History will be a little different: instead of following a chain of...

By Tom Anderson In a previous article on alternate technology terminology, we looked at the technology of radar and went into some...

By Tom Anderson For today’s article in my ‘Chains of Consequences’ series, we won’t be going so many years back in time. Only about a...

By Tom Anderson Few inventions have changed the world more than radio, and the multitudinous technologies it then gave birth to in turn,...

By Tom Anderson For the next article in our series looking at chains of consequences in history (and the implications for alternate...

By Tom Anderson In this second article on alternate terminology, we will explore the origins of the terms used in Our TimeLine (OTL) for...

By Tom Anderson J. K. Rowling’s now-ubiquitous “Harry Potter” series is one of the great British cultural success stories of the...

By Tom Anderson When writing alternate history (AH), an author's challenge is to hint to a reader that the world the story is set in is...

By Tom Anderson This is another article in which we’ll be looking at an unexpected chain of consequences in our timeline (OTL) and what...

By Tom Anderson Consequences in Alternate History How do you get... ... from... For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe...