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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

By John A. Hopkins On the Sea Lion Press Forums , we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a specific theme (changed monthly). The theme for the 92nd contest was The Detective London, August 1949 “I still don’t know what you’re talking about,” the man repeated. With a sigh, Detective Inspector Percy Tankard pushed his chair back and rested his forehead on his palms. “Why were you at the British Museum?” he asked the floor. “Visit

By Charles E.P. Murphy. Cover art by Keith Burns. 1993, the middle of the Third World War, the Asian Bloc and the Western Federation battling for the fate of Europe. Among WESTFED’s greatest assets are the multinational Harrier Squadron, piloting their state-of-the-art jump-jets against the ASBLOC menace. But what happens if there’s a shot at peace? Flight Lt. “Hob” Hogget wants to believe in an armistice but can’t quite trust that it can happen after all the bloodshed. And t

By Gary Oswald. Paperback cover, courtesy Amazon. Gavriel D. Rosenfeld is the editor of the What Ifs of Jewish History   AH book and owner of the Counterfactual History Review , a blog that has been running for twelve years and covers the way counter-factual thinking has been used and viewed in the mainstream, in both fiction and analysis of the real world. He is also a prominent academic, who serves as President of the Center for Jewish History in New York City and Professor