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By Tom Anderson Ever since the power of science and technology to change the world was widely recognised, people have grappled with the...

By Andy Cooke Fiction holds up a mirror to reality. As well as our deep-seated urge to create a narrative structure around the world in...

By Gary Oswald Sea Lion Press is built around producing Alternative or Alternate History content and implicit in that goal is the...

By Alex Richards When Amalie Elisabeth began her term as Regent of Hesse-Kassel for her son William VI, the Landgraviate was in a state...

By Tom Anderson In the roughly 45 years of the Cold War, the great naval buildup by the United States and her allies, and the more modest...

By Andy Cooke Following the successful completion of the Mercury programme (and NASA managing to sidestep a series of potential...

By Charles EP Murphy The Avengers and Justice League go to war! Wonder Woman wields the hammer of Thor! Peter Parker tries to go on a...

By Gary Oswald Hendrik Witbooi, Nama Leader, with Theodor Leutwein, German Governor, in 1896. Photo from the German Federal Archive and shared under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 licence The residents of the area that is currently the country of Namibia arrived there in a series of different migrations. The first residents were the San, who had been there since at least 25,000 BC. Then various Bantu cattle driving pastoralists arrived in the area during the 1600s, the most powerful of whi

By Tom Anderson The game of Pachinko is almost synonymous with modern Japan. Popular in part because it represents a loophole in...

By Francis Castanos The story of the Space Shuttle is a complicated and tortured one. So have a drink or, better yet, a shot of dark...

By Alex Richards Of the three main states left out of the Peace of Prague, arguably the most surprising at first glance was the decision...

By Tom Anderson In the previous article, I noted that while there were a number of proxy conflicts between East and West during the Cold...

By Andy Cooke When you’re pushing the limits of human knowledge – and doing so in a race, to boot – you’re going to be raking some risks....

By Charlton Cussans The later tragedy of Apartheid within a unified South Africa, with its stark (although arbitrary) lines of racial division, would disguise, at least to the outside world, old divisions within the white South African community. Anglo-South Africans and Afrikaner/Boer South Africans might have been united in a commitment (albeit not total) to white supremacy, but there were divisions of language, culture and religion between the two groups that had their ori

By Tom Anderson In these ‘Chains of Consequences’ articles, I have generally explored a single strand of consequence from a happenstance...

By Francis Castanos Let us start with this interesting link to the NASA 1959 long range plan. With perfect hindsight this basically...

By Charles EP Murphy Sonic the Hedgehog is all about two things – going fast and franchising. And in the first decade or so of Sonic’s...

After just under five years of continuous publication, today Sea Lion Press scores a century. Our catalogue, which began at just six...

By Alex Richards While neither the scale of the Swedish defeat at the battle of Nördlingen, nor indeed the battle itself, were inevitable...

By Tom Anderson Song lyrics and band names reveal clues about the past. This should be obvious, on the face of it. Naturally bands take...