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The Ameriyak That Never Was
By Colin Salt The Yak-40. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Soviet airliners have an understandably poor reputation and record. It’s...
Mar 6, 20242 min read


Fiction Friction: Beloved Characters That Nearly Weren't
By Tom Anderson An unexpected character, or Brother and Back Again. Picture courtesy One Wiki to Rule Them All. Many, perhaps most,...
Mar 4, 202410 min read


CROWDFUND CAMPAIGN: Worlds That Could Have Been, an AH encyclopaedia
Sea Lion Press is proud to be helping out with a very exciting project: a dual-language French-English 'encyclopaedia' of AH worlds....
Mar 2, 20241 min read


Alternate Namesakes
By No-One Important And, once you have read the article, you'll know the game and can come up with an explanation connecting these two...
Mar 1, 20246 min read


Sport and Politics: The Olympic Games, Part 6
By Pete Usher. Ben Johnson. From national hero to national disgrace with one drug test. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Why, Ben?...
Feb 28, 202413 min read


Non-Trek Worldbuilding. Part 3: Early Star Wars.
By Tom Anderson. Filmed in Death Valley, so I'm told. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. This topic may seem like a peculiar choice for...
Feb 26, 202412 min read


John le Carré, a Trade Secret. Part 3.
By Peter Randall This is where the magic happens now. MI6 headquarters. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Parts 1 and 2 of this series...
Feb 23, 20249 min read


The Artemis Jumped Over the Moon
By Matthew Kresal Artemis 8 using Dragon. Picture courtesy The Mars Society. Artemis 8 At Christmas 1968, NASA engaged in one of the...
Feb 21, 20249 min read


The Alternate Lavender Island: Matt Mitrovich
Marooned Guest: Matt Mitrovich When you think of people it’s always good to be nice to, a judge comes high up on the list. As do lawyers...
Feb 19, 20246 min read


Prequel Problems: Deny Thy Father (Star Trek)
By Tom Anderson Doesn't he look strange without the beard? Young Will Riker. Picture courtesy Star Trek Wiki. In my dedicated Star Trek...
Feb 16, 202417 min read


John le Carré, a Trade Secret. Part 2
By Peter Randall David Cornwell (John le Carré) when he moved from being a spook to writing about them. Picture courtesy Spiked. Part 1...
Feb 14, 20247 min read


NEW PAPERBACK: Atomic Secrets
John A. Hopkins, one of SLP's breakout authors of 2023, goes into print with the first David Brook novel, Atomic Secrets: 1948. The...
Feb 12, 20241 min read


The Alternate Lavender Island: Matthew Kresal
Marooned guest: Matthew Kresal. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. This time, we have marooned on Lavender Island or very own expert on...
Feb 12, 20248 min read


An Alternate History of Horror XXI: Jump Scare
By Ryan Fleming. Nosferatu, 1922. One of the earliest classics of the genre. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. It seems appropriate for...
Feb 9, 202414 min read


John le Carré, A Trade Secret. Part 1
By Peter Randall. David Cornwell, better known as John le Carré, master of betrayal. Picture courtesy Associated Press. John le Carré was...
Feb 7, 20246 min read


The Alternate Lavender Island: Nathan Goldwag
Marooned Guest: Nathan Goldwag In this episode of the marooning process we’ve all come to love (and we love it, whether we like it or...
Feb 5, 20246 min read


Monthly Vignette: Some Corner of a Foreign Field
By Peter Randall Every month, SLP runs a vignette competition with a specific prompt. This one was part of the 62nd competition, on the...
Feb 3, 20245 min read


Tales from Development Hell: I Am Legend
By Ryan Fleming Will Smith (left) in I Am Legend. Picture courtesy Wired. I’m afraid I have some sad news. This is the last article in...
Feb 2, 20249 min read


Non-Trek Worldbuilding. Part 3: Red Dwarf
By Tom Anderson The picture editor is an idiot. That's an abutilon red dwarf, which has nothing to do with this article. Picture courtesy...
Jan 31, 202415 min read


The Alternate Lavender Island
Marooned Guest: Ben Kearns Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. This time, our marooned guest – Ben Kearns – is something of a media...
Jan 29, 202410 min read
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