Adam Selby-Martin

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Nov 20, 20239 min read

The Road to a New Alternate History. Part 4.

By Adam Selby-Martin. The spectacle of Jahr Null, Episode 10, Season 3 The Man in the High Castle. Picture courtesy: The Man in the High...

Nov 13, 202310 min read

The Road to a New Alternate History. Part 3.

By Adam Selby-Martin. Late 17th Century Scottish dragoon hiding in Edinburgh Castle in the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards Regimental Museum....

Nov 6, 202310 min read

The Road to a New Alternate History. Part 2.

By Adam Selby-Martin The long and winding Road to New Alternate History. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Reflections on the Current...

Oct 23, 20239 min read

The Road to a New Alternate History. Part 1.

By Adam Selby-Martin Taken from the Charlottesville "Unite the Right" march. This isn't Alternate History. Picture courtesy Wikimedia...

Jun 3, 202218 min read

Panel Discussion: All the Myriad Ways - Part 2

By Alexander Wallace, Adam Selby-Martin, Arturo Serrano, Colin Salt and Matt Mitrovich This is a panel discussion, modelled on live...

Jun 1, 202212 min read

Panel Discussion: All the Myriad Ways - Part 1

By Alexander Wallace, Adam Selby-Martin, Arturo Serrano, Colin Salt and Matt Mitrovich Wallace: In the Sea Lion Press forum community and...

Apr 4, 202215 min read

Vignette: Richter of the Reich

By Adam Selby-Martin On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories...

May 26, 20216 min read

Review: Succession by Michael Drysdale

By Adam Selby-Martin There are innumerable titles in the Alternate History genre that deal with a Great Britain occupied by the Nazis in...

Nov 25, 20206 min read

Review: Yesterday's Dreams (Wither of Eagles Series) by Tom Brook

By Adam Selby-Martin At the beginning of 2019 I reviewed the intriguingly titled Prison of Peoples, the debut novel of new Alternate...

Nov 19, 202011 min read

Interviewing the AH Community: Adam Selby-Martin of the Scifi and Fantasy Reviewer

Questions from Gary Oswald Counter factual and Alternate History discussion and fiction is a relatively tight-knit online community. Sea...

Sep 7, 20205 min read

The Moscow Option: An Alternative Second World War

By Adam Selby-Martin While it can be fun to read Alternate History fiction, from time to time I do like to dip my toe into the more...

Aug 5, 20207 min read

Wars to End All Wars: Alternate Tales from the Trenches - Edited by N.E. White

By Adam Selby-Martin I was first attracted to this anthology by the unusual cover art, with its bleak, eerie monochrome background and...

Jun 27, 20205 min read

Alliance: Metamorphosis

By Adam Selby-Martin As I think I’ve alluded to in previous reviews for this blog, if you took a survey of published Alternate History...

Jun 1, 20206 min read

Righteous Kill by Ted Lapkin

By Adam Selby-Martin Given how difficult it is to locate Alternate History fiction on the Kindle listings these days – genuine AH fiction...

May 9, 20204 min read

Something Real: Moe Berg Mysteries #1

By Adam Selby-Martin I first encountered the reality-hopping baseball player and spy Moe Berg in the short story Bonny Boy by Rick Wilber...

Jan 3, 20203 min read

Review - The Fireflies of Port Stanley, by Marc Hywel Jones

By Adam Selby-Martin The question that Marc H Jones poses in The Fireflies of Port Stanley is quite simple, in one way, and yet in...

Dec 20, 20195 min read

Review - Red Delta: A Novel of Alternate History, by Mark Ciccone

By Adam Selby-Martin This review was previously posted on the Sci-Fi and Fantasy Reviewer on 25 January 2018 I’ve long maintained that...

Dec 6, 20198 min read

Reviews: The Hitler Options, edited by Kenneth Macksey (Published by Frontline Books)

By Adam Selby-Martin In my recent review of Peter Tsouras’ Napoleon Victorious, I briefly discussed the idea that the Alternate History...

Nov 22, 20196 min read

Reviews: Napoleon Victorious, by Peter G. Tsouras (published by Greenhill Books)

By Adam Selby-Martin In my time spent exploring Alternate History fiction , I’ve come to the (no doubt entirely unoriginal) conclusion...

Nov 8, 20194 min read

Reviews: In The Cage Where Your Saviours Hide, by Malcolm Mackay

By Adam Selby-Martin I do have a soft spot for a good, immersive crime thriller, and there have certainly been a number of them set in...

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