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The Horrors of Saint Domingo: Monarchy or Republic?
By Gary Oswald The men who would later become Emperor Dessalines, King Henry and President Pétion had all been loyal soldiers of France...
Jan 15, 202010 min read


Consequences: Profundity, Mistranslation and Crystallised Phrases
By Tom Anderson Some years ago, when I was in the final stages of writing up my PhD thesis, I decided I needed a suitably...
Jan 14, 20208 min read


The Launchbox, PoD 6: The Soviet Death Star
By Andy Cooke The Soviets were worried. Ronald Reagan's rhetoric on his "Strategic Defence Initiative" was vivid, although was it...
Jan 11, 20208 min read


Comics of Infinite Earths: Alan Moore's Twilight
By Charles EP Murphy You’re Alan Moore, you’ve just finished Watchmen, you’ve just shattered the entire superhero genre. What do you do...
Jan 10, 20208 min read


IN Bond - but not AS Bond
By Ryan Fleming Bond. Not as Bond. In these articles I have mentioned how nothing seemed to attract the eye of the producers of the Bond...
Jan 9, 20209 min read


England Expects (part four of four): A Misfit Squadron story
By Simon Brading With volume 5 of the Misfit Squadron series, "The Maltese Defence" now published, work is already well under way on...
Jan 8, 202020 min read


Naval Gazing 11: The Ill-Named Pacific War
By Tom Anderson The name ‘Pacific’ Ocean means ‘Peaceful’; it was so named by Ferdinand Magellan in 1521 because he found favourable...
Jan 7, 202012 min read


Moonbase, Episode 10: A World Apart, Part 10
By Samuel O'Slaine Storytelling is an art. It is the art of entertaining an audience by creating a narrative. We’ve decided to try an...
Jan 4, 20208 min read


Review - The Fireflies of Port Stanley, by Marc Hywel Jones
By Adam Selby-Martin The question that Marc H Jones poses in The Fireflies of Port Stanley is quite simple, in one way, and yet in...
Jan 3, 20203 min read


The Horrors of Saint Domingo: The French Connection?
By Gary Oswald The goal of the original slave uprising in Haiti was simply that they didn’t want to be slaves anymore. These were people...
Jan 2, 20208 min read


NEW RELEASE: Alternate Tastes of London
Today, Sea Lion Press moves into the culinary arena with our first recipe book. This brilliant and innovative spin on alternate history...
Dec 31, 20191 min read


Consequences: Calendar Club and Happy New Year
By Tom Anderson “Did you hear about the man who stole a calendar? He got twelve months.” – old Christmas cracker joke Since the dawn of...
Dec 31, 20198 min read


The Launchbox, PoD 5: Christmas Catastrophe - the Disaster of Apollo 8
By Andy Cooke On Christmas Day, 1968, Apollo 8 entered lunar orbit smoothly - the first manned spacecraft to reach the Moon. It was the...
Dec 28, 201911 min read


Comics of Infinite Earths - Another Marvel
By Charles EP Murphy The year is 1961 and comics are about to change forever. Fantastic Four #1 is out, birthing the Marvel Age of Comics...
Dec 27, 20196 min read


The Many Faces of James Bond (Part 3)
By Ryan Fleming Christmas. Merry Christmas. Somehow a film series about an alcoholic, gambling, womanising assassin became a staple of...
Dec 26, 201910 min read


Consequences: The Royal Family and a Very British Christmas
By Tom Anderson Christmas is a festival which has reached around the world, and given birth to a host of different traditions in...
Dec 24, 201910 min read


Vignette Sunday - Etched in Stone
By Katie Foy On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write vignettes on a...
Dec 22, 20198 min read


Moonbase, Episode 9: A World Apart, Part 9
By Samuel O'Slaine Storytelling is an art. It is the art of entertaining an audience by creating a narrative. We’ve decided to try an...
Dec 21, 20196 min read


Review - Red Delta: A Novel of Alternate History, by Mark Ciccone
By Adam Selby-Martin This review was previously posted on the Sci-Fi and Fantasy Reviewer on 25 January 2018 I’ve long maintained that...
Dec 20, 20195 min read


The Horrors of Saint Domingo: An Inevitable Revolution?
By Gary Oswald In August 1791 a number of plantation slaves met in the woods of Bois Caïman in North Haiti. That meeting was the starting...
Dec 19, 201911 min read
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