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Panel Discussion: All the Myriad Ways - Part 1
By Alexander Wallace, Adam Selby-Martin, Arturo Serrano, Colin Salt and Matt Mitrovich Wallace: In the Sea Lion Press forum community and...
Jun 1, 202212 min read


Fiction Friction: “Prince Caspian” and How to Write Time Travel Well
By Tom Anderson I wrote ‘time travel’ in the title of this article, but really it could apply to any sort of circumstance in which a...
May 30, 202218 min read


Review: For All Mankind: Season Two
By Matthew Kresal In 2019, Apple TV+ brought viewers an alternate history vision of a space race that never ended. Created by Ronald D....
May 27, 20225 min read


The 21st Century Red Army That Never Was
By Colin Salt British Sovietologist Charles J. Dick passed away last year from Covid complications. He was known primarily for writing...
May 26, 20223 min read


Africa During the Scramble: The Spider in the Web
By Gary Oswald British Policy towards Southern Africa was always somewhat hot and cold, depending on who was in Power in London, in terms...
May 25, 202211 min read


Alternate History in Star Trek Part 8: Early TNG Comics and Novels
By Tom Anderson In my last article, I noted that the period 1987-1991 saw a great deal of spinoff content produced starring the original...
May 23, 202211 min read


What If Turkey Had Entered World War II?
By Dale Cozort This Scenario was originally posted on Dale's Website in 1998. Essays like this can be found in Dale's 'Space Bats and...
May 20, 202214 min read


Living the Twenties: P,Q,R
By Sarah Zama Sarah Zama, @jazzfeathers on twitter and a writer of historical fantasy stories set in the 1920s, did 26 blog posts in 2020...
May 19, 20229 min read


Atomic Sealion
By Colin Salt One of the biggest cliches in alternate history is a German atomic bomb in World War II. This fits better with the other...
May 18, 20223 min read


Africa During the Scramble: The Worst Mistake in Human History
By Gary Oswald In 1856, the Xhosa people of the Western and Eastern Cape provinces of modern South Africa committed possibly the single...
May 16, 202210 min read


Review: For All Mankind: Season One
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...
May 13, 20224 min read


Antonov America and Other Aerial Ambitions
By Colin Salt In the long, tangled struggle to introduce new tanker planes to the U.S. Air Force (which has been ongoing since the...
May 12, 20223 min read


Africa During the Scramble: The Kat River Experiment
By Gary Oswald One of the most shocking things about the Scramble of Africa was its speed. In less than 40 years, Africa went from mostly...
May 11, 202214 min read


Alternate History in Star Trek part 7: The Final TOS Films, More Novels and Comics
By Tom Anderson In my last article, I discussed the early years of Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) up to its third season finale...
May 9, 202218 min read


Soviet/Japanese war in 1934
By Dale Cozort This Scenario was originally posted on Dale's Website in 1997. Essays like this can be found in Dale's 'Space Bats and...
May 6, 202211 min read


Living the Twenties: M,N,O
By Sarah Zama Sarah Zama, @jazzfeathers on twitter and a writer of historical fantasy stories set in the 1920s, did 26 blog posts in 2020...
May 5, 202210 min read


The Strangest Analysis
By Colin Salt That the US was in a hesitant period in terms of defence planning in the 1990s is not a surprise. But one particular...
May 4, 20222 min read


Vignette: Comic Interlude
By Roshita Narasimhan On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories...
May 2, 202212 min read


Review: BBC Radio 4's What If?
By Matthew Kresal When he was interviewed on this blog earlier this year, Steven H Silver noted that the alternate history explosion he'd...
Apr 29, 20224 min read


VTOLs and Airships
By Colin Salt So you have an Alternate history setting and you want to show the differences between this timeline and reality by showing...
Apr 28, 20222 min read
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