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By Roshita Narasimhan. On the Sea Lion Press Forums , we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short...

By Colin Salt Ouch! The Dallas Cowboys tackle poor Arian Foster in a 2010 match against the Houston Texans, picture courtesy Wikimedia...

Review by Jared Kavanagh. Current cover for Vintage's reprint; cover courtesy Amazon. There are plenty of authors who write alternate...

By Ryan Fleming. The original 1963 cover for the book; image courtesy Wikipedia, under fair use Hollywood is a very superstitious...

By Jason Sharp. On the Sea Lion Press Forums , we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...

By Monroe S. Templeton Alternate history is a genre defined by a sense of regret. It is the genre where we look at the past, at decisions...

By Gary Oswald Flag of Guyana As discussed in a previous article , the British Empire in 1807 abolished the slave trade and stopped...

Review by Paul Hynes The original hardcover, image courtesy Amazon There is a famous passage within Harlan Ellison’s much loved short...

Sea Lion Press has published a lot of books, and we know it can be intimidating for a new reader to know exactly what we offer. This blog's former editor and still-current writer Gary Oswald did a guide to the backlist in 2022, when there were over a hundred books --- there's been changes since then so we've updated the list! To help you find your next favourite alternate history story, we've divided them up into categories:     Anthologies   Sea Lion Press routinely produces

By Charles EP Murphy The League of Nations in 2000AD's Scarlet Traces, prog 2023, by Ian Edginton and D'Israeli The Sea Lion Press blog...

Last minute ebooks for Christmas? After a quiet year from Sea Lion Press, we wanted to reassure you that we haven't gone anywhere. Four more books are now on sale, and more will be coming as 2025 begins. Pablo John's A Very British Transition begins not with revolution, nor with coup, but with the transition back to democracy after a 20th century British military junta. Through examination of how the country got here, readers can put together the pieces of a troubling regime

Farewell. The time has come, the walrus said. I’m not exactly a walrus. A walrus is, after all, a mass of blubber, ungainly when moving...

By Tom Anderson. Blade Runner Spinner at the Peterson Museum in Los Angeles. This vehicle is in the SF section and not, alas, the...

By Steve Payne and Jeff Provine This article was originally posted on Today in Alternate History (twitter)and the original article can be...

By Tom Anderson. Picture courtesy Amazon. This entry in the Paleofuture article series, in which I look at classic works of science...

By Andy Cooke Common Bigshot Stanley, from Pirates of Penzance. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. When writing any organisation with...

By Tom Anderson Artist impression of the planet Terminus. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons.     In a previous article , I discussed...

Marooned guest: Jonathan Edelstein Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Today’s marooned guest on Lavender Island is one of the...

Sammy hopes to be on the red carpet to collect a winning prize. A short story published by Sealion Press has been nominated in the...

By Charles Cartwright. What's the Vignette this month? Children see the world differently to adults. That’s what makes writing for...