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Mar 26, 20196 min read
From the Final Frontier to the Audacity of Hope: How Star Trek Voyager led to the Obama Presidency
By Tom Anderson For today’s article in my ‘Chains of Consequences’ series, we won’t be going so many years back in time. Only about a...

Mar 24, 201910 min read
First Chapters: The Darling Buds Express
By Edward W Feery Welcome to the latest in our series of first chapters showcasing our books. Today, we have The Darling Buds Express, by...


Mar 23, 20195 min read
That was too close... Five assassinations that never were
By Andy Cooke This series looks at moments when the world didn't change - but shivered in the balance. Moments where a Point of...

Mar 22, 20197 min read
Other Ideologies: Anarcho-Capitalism (Part One)
By Max Lindh If one is willing to concede that the free market is better at running heavy industries, manufacture consumer goods, and...


Mar 21, 20193 min read
Boom Boom Goes the Tank: The Circle Trigons
By Colin Salt One amusing-in-hindsight Cold War footnote and object of my fascination has been the Circle Trigon Aggressor Force, used by...

Mar 20, 20197 min read
The audience versus Operation Sea Lion: a new type of AH experience
By Tom Black A man in naval uniform checks your name on the list. You step into a pub crammed with leather armchairs. Vera Lynn emanates...


Mar 19, 20196 min read
Alternate Terminology: Radio Killed the Telegraph Star
By Tom Anderson Few inventions have changed the world more than radio, and the multitudinous technologies it then gave birth to in turn,...


Mar 16, 20197 min read
When The World Held Its Breath: Fixed Bayonets
By Paul Hynes As Barbarossa began, Soviet troops at the front were often asleep. When the Germans struck their stocks of ammunition and...


Mar 15, 20195 min read
Review: Saving Hitler - An Alternate History Time Travel Adventure by Ian James
Review by Adam Selby-Martin In the alternate history genre, both in written form and in television and cinema, there have been a number...

Mar 13, 20194 min read
So You Want to Make a Map? Part V​
By Alex Richards Having mastered the art of tracing, the next stage in creating a map is the addition of colour. While the actual...


Mar 12, 20196 min read
From Bourbons to Viacom - How Louis XIV Created Nickelodeon
By Tom Anderson For the next article in our series looking at chains of consequences in history (and the implications for alternate...


Mar 10, 201912 min read
First (or Second) Chapters: Reid in Braid
By Ryan Fleming Welcome to the latest in our series of first chapters showcasing our books. Today, we have the second chapter of Reid in...


Mar 9, 20197 min read
That was too close... Five asteroid impacts that never were
By Andy Cooke Five Asteroid Impact Disasters that never were... You’ve all seen the diagrams – the Solar System, and Earth’s orbit around...

Mar 8, 20198 min read
Other Ideologies: 4 - Eurocommunism
By David Hoggard It is almost incredible how much of our present-day politics can be traced back to ideas articulated in 1968. On the...


Mar 7, 20194 min read
Boom Boom Goes The Tank: The Time Periods of World War III
By Colin Salt World War III fiction in written form (and sometimes in wargames too) tends to cluster into two sizable segments. The first...

Mar 6, 20198 min read
Days of Future Past: Part 4
By Ryan Fleming ...We could be sure that robber barons and monopolistic trusts would lead to a growing Socialist Party in the United...


Mar 5, 20196 min read
Alternate Terminology: Computers, Ordinators, or Ypologists?
By Tom Anderson In this second article on alternate terminology, we will explore the origins of the terms used in Our TimeLine (OTL) for...

Mar 3, 20197 min read
Vignette Sunday: The Price of Success
By Andy Cooke On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write vignettes on a...


Mar 2, 20196 min read
When The World Held Its Breath: Divide And Conquer
By Paul Hynes "We have only to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crumbling down" was Adolf Hitler's reassurance...


Mar 1, 20195 min read
Review: Reich of Renegades by Mark Lynch
Review by Adam Selby Martin The Alternate History genre is littered with tropes, but two of the greatest are a triumphant Confederate...
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