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Jun 7, 201910 min read
Review - Altered America (anthology; edited by Martin T. Ingham)
By Adam Selby-Martin Altered America Martin T. Ingham (ed.) Martinus Publishing Back in June 2018, I reviewed for the SLP blog the...
Jun 6, 20198 min read
Popular Culture without... Kolchak: The Night Stalker
By Ryan Fleming Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, The Sopranos, The X-Files. None of these may have existed were...
Jun 5, 20195 min read
PoDs of the Thirty Years War - Part IV
by Alex Richards Over the last three articles, we've looked a lot at the politics of the first phase of the Thirty Years War and the...
Jun 4, 20196 min read
Consequences in Alternate History: How Goethe Created the World’s Biggest Computer Manufacturer
By Tom Anderson In the 1930s, Frederick Emmons Terman was the Dean of Engineering at Stanford University in California. He was one of the...
Jun 1, 20196 min read
Airships: Part 3 - Civilian Airships
By Andy Cooke After my introduction to airships in alternate history and my article on the roles of military airships if history had...
May 31, 20199 min read
Other Ideologies: Pirate Politics
By David Hoggard The European elections of last week have been a goldmine for opinion-merchants, providing a rich seam of data that can –...
May 30, 201910 min read
Ryan's Reviews: The Two Georges, by Harry Turtledove and Richard Dreyfuss
By Ryan Fleming The two most common alternate history settings are ones based on World War II and the American Civil War. Bringing up a...
May 28, 20196 min read
Alternate Terminology: Rank and File
By Tom Anderson Regardless of one’s nation, the military are generally a good source of unique and often jargonistic terminology...
May 26, 201910 min read
Vignette Sunday: The Remembrance To End All Remembrances
By Tom Anderson On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write vignettes on a...
May 24, 20196 min read
Review - Alternate History Shorts: Tulip House (Paul van Rompaye) and Sons of York (Ade Grant)
By Adam Selby-Martin Alternate History Shorts Sometimes in my journeys through the highs and lows of the Alternate History genre listings...
May 23, 201910 min read
Popular Culture Without... Star Wars
By Ryan Fleming On the 25th of May 1977 Star Wars was released in the United States, it was a film almost every studio in Hollywood had...
May 22, 20195 min read
PoDs of the Thirty Years War: III
By Alex Richards Over the last two articles, I've discussed the potential consequences of the biggest potential PoD of the first phase of...
May 21, 20198 min read
Lord of the Reams: How a Paper Shortage Created Modern Fantasy
By Tom Anderson Looking back from the second decade of the twenty-first century, we can see that the fantasy genre has gone from strength...
May 19, 20198 min read
First Chapters: Tippecanoe and Wallace Too
By Alex Richards Welcome to the latest in our series of first chapters showcasing our books. Today, we have Tippecanoe and Wallace Too,...
May 18, 20196 min read
Airships: Part 2 - Military Airships
By Andy Cooke How can you use airships for military purposes - in a world where heavier-than-air aircraft already exist? Anyone trying...
May 17, 20199 min read
Other Ideologies: Humanism
By David Hoggard On the fourth of May, 1969, a spellbinding hermit named Mario Luis RodrÃguez Cobos welcomed two hundred people to the...
May 16, 20196 min read
Ryan's Reviews: Fatherland, by Robert Harris
By Ryan Fleming What are the best works of alternate history? Are they the ones with the richest, most detailed, and most plausible...
May 14, 20199 min read
Alternate Terminologies: Elementary, my Dear Mendeleyev
By Tom Anderson Look at a Periodic Table and you will see that many of the abbreviations of the chemical elements seem perfectly...
May 12, 20194 min read
Vignette Sunday: Rendezvous
By Max Johansson On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write vignettes on a...
May 10, 20196 min read
Review: Every Second Counts (Armistice Book 1) by Jack Cole
Review by Adam Selby-Martin As with so many titles, it was the cover art to Every Second Counts that drew my attention in as I scrolled...
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