The Nearly Tales of Sport
By Pete Usher Sport is always full of “nearly” stories, normally at the business end of a competition. Just recently, Scotland nearly...
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- Mar 22
- 16 min
POD Cast: 15 August, 1399
By Tim Venning. Richard II and Isabel of France, 1396. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. 15 August 1399: OTL, Richard II was deposed,...
- Mar 20
- 10 min
The Alternate Lavender Island: Jack Tindale
Marooned Guest: Jack Tindale. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Our castaway today is Jack Tindale, who needs no introduction to the...
- Mar 18
- 12 min
Alternate Technology: A Nuke By Any Other Name
By Tom Anderson If they named it after the place, this could be a Los Alamos, a Hiroshima, or a Bikini. Picture courtesy Wikimedia...
- Mar 15
- 8 min
The Way Things Were. Maybe.
By David Flin He's not happy. In some circles, it is considered fair game to sneer at historical re-enactors as plastic imitations, as...
- Mar 13
- 3 min
The Alternate Lavender Island.
Marooned Guest: Arturo Serrano Today, our marooned guest on Lavender Island is Arturo Serrano, author of the AH novel To Climates Unknown...
- Mar 11
- 10 min
Vignette: Queen of the Windsor Castle
By A Snow Marine. The author. Picture courtesy Sergeant Frosty Publications. In a previous article , I looked at Namesakes, and the...
- Mar 9
- 4 min
Monthly Vignette: Resolving a Schism
By Paul Leone SLP runs a monthly vignette challenge, the latest of which is on the subject off Lawman and can be found Here. Not all...
- Mar 8
- 6 min
The Alternate Lavender Island: Brent Harris
Marooned Guest: Brent Harris. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. The guest for this exercise in marooning is an expert in...
- Mar 6
- 2 min
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 4
- 10 min
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 2
- 1 min
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 1
- 6 min
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...
- Feb 28
- 13 min
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 26
- 12 min
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 23
- 9 min
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 21
- 9 min
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 19
- 6 min
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 16
- 17 min
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 14
- 7 min
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...
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