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Other Ideologies 3: Weird Monarchisms
By David Hoggard In countries with existing monarchies, support for the status quo is usually fairly common – in the UK, even most Labour...
Feb 22, 20197 min read


The Promise and the Peril of the Timeline format
By Colin Salt One of the most common writing formats for internet alternate history is the timeline format, or “TL” for short. TL will be...
Feb 21, 20192 min read


Boom Boom Goes The Tank: World War III Fiction
By Colin Salt Technothrillers and World War III novels are closely linked. But there’s still some big differences between them. If...
Feb 21, 20192 min read


Days of Future Past: Part 3
By Ryan Fleming What if France and Russia had invaded the United Kingdom in the late nineteenth century? What if Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Feb 20, 20199 min read


Alternate Terminology: Landships, Farseers, and Localnets
By Tom Anderson When writing alternate history (AH), an author's challenge is to hint to a reader that the world the story is set in is...
Feb 19, 20197 min read


When The World Held Its Breath: Japan Strikes North
By Paul Hynes What if Japan had joined Barbarossa in the Summer of 1941? It's a question that's interested many and even puzzled a few...
Feb 16, 20196 min read


Review: Ashes of America, by Fergus McNeill
Review by Adam Selby-Martin [Please note that the author kindly provided a review copy pre-publication in return for a fair and honest...
Feb 15, 20197 min read


So You Want To Make A Map: Part III
By Alex Richards While the question of audience forms the bedrock of mapmaking, and the question of programme is, naturally, the first...
Feb 13, 20194 min read


The Impact of Command and Conquer: Red Alert
By Tom Anderson This is another article in which we’ll be looking at an unexpected chain of consequences in our timeline (OTL) and what...
Feb 12, 20198 min read


Other Ideologies II: Georgism
By David Hoggard The political spectrum is home to many shades of political opinion. One of the shadiest of these, at least as far as...
Feb 8, 20195 min read


Boom Boom Goes the Tank: A Brief Chronology of The Technothriller
By Colin Salt So with my strange love-hate relationship with World War III fiction and technothrillers in general, I should start this...
Feb 7, 20195 min read


Days of Future Past: Part 2
by Ryan Fleming What would the British Empire have done with a new technology that could have turned vast swathes of the solar system...
Feb 6, 20197 min read


That was too close… Five accidental nuclear detonations that never were
By Andy Cooke This series will look at the inverse of the “For Want of a Nail” idea: times when the last nail just about held. Times...
Feb 5, 20196 min read


Vignette Sunday: Tee Im Schwarzwald
By James Hall On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write vignettes on a...
Feb 3, 20198 min read


When The World Held Its Breath : The "What Ifs" of Operation Barbarossa
By Paul Hynes "The world will hold its breath!" is the reaction Adolf Hitler promised when planning the most ambitious conquest of the...
Feb 2, 201910 min read


Review: Divided Worlds: An Alternate Space Race, by Mark Ciccone
Review by Adam Selby-Martin Divided Worlds: An Alternate Space Race, by Mark Ciccone One of the main reasons why I like Mark Ciccone as...
Feb 1, 20195 min read


Over-Analysis of Wolfenstein Sauerkraut Burger
By Bob Mumby An Over-Analysis Of An Alternate History Recipe Beware SPOILERS for both Wolfenstein: The New Order and Wolfenstein: The New...
Jan 31, 20196 min read


So You Want to Make a Map? Part II
By Alex Richards In my first article on this topic here, I covered the most fundamental question of map making- why you're actually...
Jan 30, 20195 min read


How the American Civil War Created Super Mario: ‘For Want of a Nail’
By Tom Anderson Consequences in Alternate History How do you get... ... from... For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe...
Jan 29, 20196 min read


First Chapters: Agent Lavender
Welcome to the first of our regular series showcasing the first chapters from our books. Today, we have "Agent Lavender: The Flight of...
Jan 26, 201913 min read
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