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Africa During the Scramble: Four Months in Berlin
By Gary Oswald The Berlin Conference of 1884-85 is probably the best known and most taught moment of the Scramble of Africa. It was a...
Apr 27, 202215 min read


Alternate History in Star Trek part 6: The Birth of The Next Generation
By Tom Anderson 1987 finally saw the return of Star Trek to the small screen with Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG). I have already...
Apr 25, 202217 min read


Llamas In The Appalachians
By Dale Cozort This Scenario was originally posted on Dale's Website in 1998. It can be found, among other stories and essays, in Dale's...
Apr 22, 202222 min read


Living the Twenties: J,K,L
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...
Apr 21, 20229 min read


Africa During the Scramble: The Years without Food
By Gary Oswald Between 1500 and 1820, Africa’s population declined relative to that of the rest of the world due a combination of booming...
Apr 20, 20229 min read


Review: Everfair
By Gary Oswald Everfair by Nisi Shawl, is a book that I knew I had to buy as soon as I saw the concept. Which is 'what if the Congo Free...
Apr 18, 20223 min read


Review: Titanic: Adventure Out of Time
By Matthew Kresal A hundred and ten years ago, a grand ocean liner of the Edwardian era was caught up in fate and circumstances on its...
Apr 15, 20226 min read


Review: Weird World War III
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...
Apr 14, 20222 min read


Africa During the Scramble: A French India
By Gary Oswald In 1914, Blaise Diagne became the first entirely ethnically black African to be elected to a European parliament when he...
Apr 13, 202213 min read


Alternate History in Star Trek part 5: Early TOS Pocket Books novels
By Tom Anderson Aside note: in between writing part 4 and this article, Star Trek: Picard returned and featured...a time travel and...
Apr 11, 202214 min read


Stronger French/Ottoman Alliance
By Dale Cozort This Scenario was originally posted on Dale's Blog in 2022. Essays like this can be found in Dale's 'Space Bats and...
Apr 8, 20227 min read


Living the Twenties: G,H,I
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...
Apr 7, 20227 min read


Africa During the Scramble: The Reality behind 'The Woman King'
By Gary Oswald The first articles I ever wrote for this site were a three part series looking at the Kingdom of Dahomey in modern day...
Apr 6, 202213 min read


Vignette: Richter of the Reich
By Adam Selby-Martin On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories...
Apr 4, 202215 min read


The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Martian Menace
By Matthew Kresal “You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive.” "No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century,...
Apr 1, 20224 min read


Africa During the Scramble: The Black Napoleon
By Gary Oswald The African Polities of the late 19th century threw up more than their fair share of brilliant military leaders and...
Mar 31, 202219 min read


Interviewing the AH Community: Owen Kingston
Questions from Gary Oswald Counter factual and Alternate History discussion and fiction is a large and healthy community. Sea Lion Press...
Mar 30, 20229 min read


NEW RELEASES: Orwell, intrigue and comic books
Sea Lion Press is delighted to unveil four new titles. A Bright, Cold Day from Mark Ciccone tells a tale of a different life for George...
Mar 29, 20221 min read


Alternate History in Star Trek, part 4: Early Novels, the TOS Movies and More Comics
By Tom Anderson In a previous article in this series, I discussed AH tropes in the non-canon comics spinoffs from Star Trek “The Original...
Mar 28, 202218 min read


Sponsored Writeathon
Authors from Sea Lion Press are doing a sponsored writeathon today (the 26th of March). For 24 hours, they are going to write and dream...
Mar 26, 20221 min read
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