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The Tree that Exploits Its Own Surplus Value
By Alex Wallace On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...
Jan 10, 20224 min read


Red Hammer 1994 Review
By Colin Salt Robert Radcliffe's Red Hammer 1994 is an alternate history novel about a Russo-American World War III. Unlike some of the...
Jan 7, 20222 min read


'Yaqteenya: the Old World' review
By Alex Wallace Today, I have the distinct pleasure to introduce to the Anglophone online alternate history something that is entirely...
Jan 5, 20223 min read


Prequel Problems: Michael Stackpole, The Continuity Strikes Back
By Tom Anderson Some time ago, I penned (keyboard-ed?) a series of articles looking at the old Star Wars Expanded Universe of (mostly)...
Jan 3, 202216 min read


Alternate History as a Political Tract
By Gary Oswald Politics is innately concerned with Alternate History. When your party wins an election and then you have to go back four...
Dec 31, 20218 min read


Review - 'To Climates Unknown'
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...
Dec 29, 20214 min read


The Making of a Division
By Colin Salt When making alternate armies that are far larger than their real life counterparts, it's important to note the important...
Dec 27, 20212 min read


Review: The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal
By Matthew Kresal The Moon, our nearest celestial neighbor, has long occupied a place in the human imagination. Before Apollo 11 landed...
Dec 24, 20214 min read


NEW RELEASES: AlloAmericana and The King's Mission
Just in time for Christmas! If you want to fill up your new Kindle with some Sea Lion Press books this Saturday, or you're looking for...
Dec 23, 20211 min read


At the 2021 Sidewise Awards Ceremony at DISCON III
By Alexander Wallace At four P.M, Eastern Standard time on December eighteenth, 2021, a large number of fans of the alternate history...
Dec 22, 20213 min read


Fiction Friction: Fantasy Counterpart Cultures, Part 2
By Tom Anderson In this article’s predecessor, I discussed a number of examples of how fantasy authors have taken inspiration from the...
Dec 20, 202119 min read


Matthew Kresal wins a Sidewise Award!
A short stories published by Sea Lion Press has won the short-form category of the Sidewise Awards, the annual prize for alternate...
Dec 19, 20211 min read


Weimar Germany- W,X,Y,Z
By Sarah Zama Sarah Zama, @jazzfeathers on twitter and a writer of historical fantasy stories set in the 1920s, did 26 blog posts in 2018...
Dec 17, 20219 min read


'Through the Dark Mirror' review
By Alex Wallace One of the oldest forms of alternate history is the portal fantasy involving real history. Much of the genesis of the...
Dec 15, 20212 min read


Interviewing the AH Community: Daniel Bensen
Questions from Gary Oswald Counter factual and Alternate History discussion and fiction is a large and healthy online community. Sea Lion...
Dec 13, 20219 min read


Doctor Who Unbound: Masters Of War
By Matthew Kresal What would Doctor Who be without the Daleks? If they hadn't featured in the second-ever serial, broadcast in the winter...
Dec 10, 20215 min read


'Sleep and the Soul' review
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....
Dec 8, 20212 min read


Fiction Friction: Fantasy Counterpart Cultures, Part 1
By Tom Anderson In my most recent article, I discussed fantasy authors’ ideas for magical stand-ins for technology. This article is the...
Dec 6, 202119 min read


Identity Crisis
By Jared Kavanagh On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on...
Dec 3, 20215 min read


'Big Stick' review
By Alexander Wallace Of the entire constellation of things that alternate historians love, two of the brightest stars are Theodore...
Dec 1, 20212 min read
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