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The London Overground That Wasn't
By Charles E.P. Murphy. Two of the Overground lines at Gospel Oak station. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons, by Matt Brown . The London Overground is exactly what it sounds like, a regular train service like the Underground but not under the ground. Just like the Underground, it has expanded since it started, with branch lines across the Greater London area and its suburbs, spanning now from West Croydon up to Cheshunt, Stratford to Watford. Just like the Underground, it h
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What if Toy Story 2 was never rescued by Galyn Susman?
By Gary Oswald. Jessie wouldn't be so happy if Galyn Susman hadn't saved her characters models! Image courtesy Amazon marketplace. Toy Story 2 was the third feature film made by Pixar Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures, a sequel to their first film Toy Story . It was an even bigger commercial and critical hit, one of the best selling and most praised animated films ever made and probably the film that truly made Pixar. Their ability to make not only multiple original
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Writing Alternate History: Real vs Fictional Characters
By Thomas Anderson. Real people ready to go versus the fictional aliens. Original US paperback cover for Worldwar book 3, image courtesy Amazon marketplace. Alternate History fiction (or some of it at least) can be considered a specialised form of historical fiction. In particular, if one has set a story in a timeline not many years after the Point of Divergence (POD) then in theory everyone one meets in such a story should be a person who existed in real history. Of course,
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Why I Wrote... Streseland
By Alexander Rooksmoor. As Sea Lion Press regulars know, often it is the least likely alternatives which are the most favoured as the basis for novels. The classic is Nazi Germany winning the Second World War, something that would have required multiple divergences from what unfolded in our history. Yet I think I am safe in saying more books and dramatisations have used this rather than any other alternative history scenario. Despite this popularity, far more feasible are alt
Mar 37 min read
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