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Monthly Vignette: Comfort in Cartoons
By Alex Wallace. This month, our vignette is from the 36th vignette challenge, which had as its theme: “Anime.” This was the winning...
Apr 6, 20245 min read
PODCast: 15 August 1399, Part 2
By Tim Venning Richard II exerting control during the Peasants' Revolt. According to James Doyle, anyway. Picture courtesy Wikimedia...
Apr 5, 202411 min read
Sport and Politics: The Olympic Games. Part 7
By Pete Usher Promoting peace and harmony and with a complete absence of politics, right? Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. People...
Apr 3, 202412 min read
A Myth is Good For a While
By the Non-Mythical Sergeant Frosty. Siwash Rock, Vancouver. There is currently a debate on changing the name of the feature to...
Apr 1, 20245 min read
The Grand Colonel Effect: One Author's Rules for Alternate Names
By Colin Salt. Brigadier General Norvell Coots, commander Regional Health Command Europe. Potentially a Grand Colonel. Picture courtesy...
Mar 29, 20243 min read
Writing Alternate History: The Unexpected Constant
By Tom Anderson. How often does this man appear in Timelines of the 1970s and 1980s? Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Although I have...
Mar 27, 202412 min read
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...
Mar 25, 20245 min read
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 22, 202416 min read
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 20, 202410 min read
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 18, 202412 min read
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 15, 20248 min read
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 13, 20243 min read
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 11, 202410 min read
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 9, 20244 min read
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 8, 20246 min read
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
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