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Splendid Americans
By Charles EP Murphy As we’ve seen, the fate of comics – who makes them, what shape they take, where they sell – is subject to random...
Aug 7, 20206 min read


Wars to End All Wars: Alternate Tales from the Trenches - Edited by N.E. White
By Adam Selby-Martin I was first attracted to this anthology by the unusual cover art, with its bleak, eerie monochrome background and...
Aug 5, 20207 min read


Never Mind The Bollocks
By Charles EP Murphy On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories...
Aug 4, 20205 min read


Chains of Consequences: Die Hard With a Reference
By Tom Anderson The release of Die Hard in July 1988 was a seminal moment for not only the American film industry, but for world culture...
Aug 3, 202011 min read


An Alternate History of the Roman Empire: Pertinax and the Severans
By Tim Venning In our reality, Pertinax came to power as the candidate of Commodus’ assassins in December 192 but was overthrown by the...
Aug 1, 202017 min read


PODs of the Thirty Years War XXXII
By Alex RIchards While seeing initial successes, by 1636 the French position in Alsace had stalled and she was facing renewed attacks on...
Jul 31, 20205 min read


NEW RELEASE: Well Met By Starlight
Tom Anderson's standalone followup to The Surly Bonds of Earth is out now. “This day in human history...is the day it stops being only...
Jul 30, 20201 min read


“Not a Heartbeat Stilled”: Jochi, eldest son of Genghis Khan, lives past 1227.
By Charles Allison Genghis Khan died in September 1227, likely from complications of being thrown from a horse. The great khan did not...
Jul 29, 202011 min read


Unbuilt Moscow
By Nick Ottens This article was first published over here by our friends at Never Was Magazine and is shared as part of our partnership...
Jul 28, 20204 min read


Exploring Alternate Wars of the Roses: King Holland
By Tyler Parsons Henry Holland, Duke of Exeter, has much in common with his brother-in-law George, Duke of Clarence. Like Clarence,...
Jul 27, 202012 min read


An Alternative History of the Roman Empire: The Last Years of Marcus Aurelius
By Tim Venning In the previous article, we looked at the events of 180 AD and the death of Marcus Aurelius of illness. What would happen...
Jul 25, 202011 min read


Buy Misty For Me
By Charles EP Murphy In our discussion on girls’ comics – indeed, in anyone’s discussion of British girls’ comics – the gothic horror...
Jul 24, 202017 min read


Alternate History at the 2020 Hugos
By Alexander Wallace As this article goes to press online voting for the Hugo awards is still open. It will close Wednesday 22 July 2020...
Jul 22, 20204 min read


Moses in Tokyo
By Deyland Somer On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...
Jul 21, 20208 min read


Chains of Consequences: The Obscure Presidential Assassinations, pt 2 – William McKinley
By Tom Anderson In my previous two articles, I discussed the fact that although America has had ‘only’ four presidents assassinated in...
Jul 20, 202014 min read


An Alternative History of the Roman Empire: An Illness in Marcomannia
By Tim Venning The crucial events of 180 AD have inspired two major Hollywood films, the top-rated ‘Gladiator’ and the now largely...
Jul 18, 202014 min read


PODs of the Thirty Years War XXXI
By Alex Richards While the strategic situation within the Empire changed after the start of the Franco-Swedish phase of the war, the...
Jul 17, 20205 min read


'The War in the Air' and the Cult of the Airship
By Alexander Wallace “All Change Points, from Xerxes to the last presidential election, create worlds with clean, efficient Zeppelin...
Jul 15, 20208 min read


What If Friedrich III Had Lived?
By Marcus Rauchfuß This article was first published over here by our friends at Never Was Magazine and is shared as part of our...
Jul 14, 20205 min read


Exploring Alternate Wars of the Roses: King George
By Tyler Parsons George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, was the middle brother of the Yorkist family, younger than Edward IV and older...
Jul 13, 202015 min read
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