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Alternate Crimes: Conspiracy theories, Assassinations, and Salad Oil Swindles
By Wm Garrett Cothran Conspiracies and history seem to go hand in hand. Lurking in the shadows behind every fact, there is the “real...
Nov 21, 201911 min read


PoDs of the Thirty Years War: Part XV
By Alex Richards As September 1631 dawned, the trend of the Thirty Years War appeared to be fixed. Initial Protestant rebellions would be...
Nov 20, 20196 min read


Alternate Terminology: Naval Gazing, Part 8 - The Not-So-Great War
By Tom Anderson On June 28th 1914, Bosnian Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the...
Nov 19, 201911 min read


An Introduction to the “Look to the West” Series
By Tom Anderson In January 2007 I first began writing and posting a project I called “Look to the West”, my first ‘proper’ attempt at a...
Nov 17, 20198 min read


The Launch Box: PoD 2 - Alan Shepard, first man in space
By Andy Cooke Eisenhower's Priorities After the furore over the Soviet Union "winning" the race to launch the first satellite, President...
Nov 16, 201910 min read


Comics of Infinite Earths: The Deaths Heads that were and were not (Part 1)
By Charles EP Murphy Which single character both links the Heroic Autobots, Doctor Who, and the Fantastic Four in a continuity nightmare,...
Nov 15, 20196 min read


Popular Culture without... Jaws
By Ryan Fleming When you look at the highest grossing films in any given year this decade, you are greeted with a barrage of big-budget...
Nov 14, 20196 min read


England Expects (part one of four): A Misfit Squadron story
By Simon Brading With volume 5 of the Misfit Squadron series, "The Maltese Defence" on the verge of being published, work is already well...
Nov 13, 201914 min read


Consequences in Alternate History: The Garibaldi Problem
By Tom Anderson I recently mentioned on social media that on this day (then November 4th) Túpac Amaru II had launched his uprising in...
Nov 12, 20197 min read


Vignette Sunday: New York Values
By Mark Tentarelli On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write vignettes on a...
Nov 10, 20192 min read


Moonbase, Episode 6: A World Apart, Part 6
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...
Nov 9, 20198 min read


Reviews: In The Cage Where Your Saviours Hide, by Malcolm Mackay
By Adam Selby-Martin I do have a soft spot for a good, immersive crime thriller, and there have certainly been a number of them set in...
Nov 8, 20194 min read


Alternate Crimes: I suppose you're all wondering why I've gathered you here...
By Wm. Garret Cothran For a moment, close your eyes. You are in a room, pipe in hand, deer stalker on the coffee table. All around you...
Nov 7, 201910 min read


PoDs of the Thirty Years War - Part XIV
By Alex Richards Turning at last to the Swedish Intervention in the Thirty Years War, we come to the most famous and celebrated part of...
Nov 6, 20196 min read


Naval Gazing Part 7: We’re All Sunk By A Battle Submarine
By Tom Anderson The last few articles in this series have mostly focused on the idea of a neat progression of frontline naval technology...
Nov 5, 20198 min read


An Introduction to the Lectern series
By Andy Cooke With politics and the effects of disagreements on EU membership and even debates taking centre stage in the UK right now,...
Nov 3, 20193 min read


NEW RELEASES: Drake's Drum sequel, Confederate shenanigans, and Mongols in Italy
Three new books are released by Sea Lion Press today. Drake's Drum: The Reckoning continues Nicholas Sumner's acclaimed very different...
Nov 2, 20191 min read


The Launch Box: PoDs of the Space Age - PoD 1: The first satellite is American
By Andy Cooke This series will look at potential Points of Divergence (PoDs) of the Space Age. From the first launches to the present...
Nov 2, 20199 min read


Mach One Magazine and Judge Dredd Fortnightly - the 2000AD spinoffs that never were
By Charles EP Murphy 2000AD is one of the big successes in British comics – forty-two years and counting of existence, surviving while...
Nov 1, 20198 min read


Popular Culture without... Ed Gein
By Ryan Fleming There are many different ways real life can influence our popular culture. Real events can be adapted into fictionalised...
Oct 31, 20196 min read
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