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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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