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Marooned Guest: Alex Richards. Here we are again. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. This time, we welcome Alex Richards to the splendid...
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Sep 8, 20236 min read
What's Opera, Doc? Part 6: The Company
By Alex Richards The Pollard Opera Company. Consisting largely of members of James Pollard's large family. The company ran from 1881 to...
Jul 27, 20236 min read
What's Opera, Doc? Part 5, Collaborations (ii). Soloists
By Alex Richards Renatus Meszar as Wotan in Die Walkure; “Wotan’s exactly like us: he is the sum of today’s intellectual consciousness,...
Jul 20, 20236 min read
What's Opera, Doc? Part 5: Collaborations
By Alex Richards. It's got a Barber, so the opera must be... Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. There is a common misconception in...
May 15, 20238 min read
What's Opera, Doc? Part 2: Les Mis.
By Alex Richards In Part 1, Alex Richards discussed a potential POD concerning The Mikado. Here, he looks at one of the few performances...
May 1, 20239 min read
What's Opera, Doc? Part 1. The Mikado
By Alex Richards. The Metropolitan Opera House, 1898. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Editor's Introduction: Back in the day, opera...
Feb 24, 20232 min read
Microfiction from the SLP Community: Part 3
By Ed Thomas, Lilith Roberts and Alex Richards Maps are a classic way of communicating ideas. It's a cliche that every Fantasy book has a...
Sep 27, 202213 min read
Interview: Alex Richards
Questions from Gary Oswald This Interview is with Alex Richards, a graphic creator who has made maps for several SLP books and wrote...
Apr 9, 20216 min read
PODs of the Thirty Years War L
By Alex Richards The Westphalian Peace It is tempting, from the perspective of the writer of Alternate History, to speculate on the...
Mar 27, 20214 min read
PODs of the Thirty Years War XLVIX
By Alex Richards With Imperial war efforts in the Rhineland effectively ended, the Archbishop-Elector of Cologne’s campaign in Cologne...
Mar 12, 20215 min read
PODs of the Thirty Years War XLVIII
By Alex Richards While the conflict in the Spanish Netherlands occupied the majority of French attention, Turenne and the remaining...
Feb 27, 20216 min read
PODs of the Thirty Years War XLVII
By Alex Richards If the Peace of Ulm had allowed Elector Maximilian of Bavaria to, ultimately, reorient his attentions towards Bohemia...
Feb 12, 20214 min read
PODs of the Thirty Years War XLVI
By Alex Richards When Elector Maximilian of Bavaria signed the Peace of Ulm on behalf of himself and his brother, the Archbishop-Elector...
Jan 30, 20218 min read
PODs of the Thirty Years War XLV
By Alex Richards While the year 1647 had been relatively quiet in the realm of military actions, the peace negotiations in Westphalia...
Jan 19, 20215 min read
Beneath the Sword of Damocles
By Alex Richards On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...
Jan 16, 20215 min read
PODs of the Thirty Years War XLIV
By Alex Richards With the conclusion of the Ulm Truce of 1647, and the continuation of the concurrent negotiations in Westphalia, the...
Jan 1, 20214 min read
PODs of the Thirty Years War XLIII
By Alex Richards While the year 1646 had seen the first major peace negotiations of the Thirty Years War bear fruit, this by no means...
Dec 18, 20205 min read
PODs of the Thirty Years War XLII
By Alex Richards With the close of the 1645 campaigns by Sweden and France, the strategic division of effort that had been emerging in...
Dec 4, 20207 min read
PODs of the Thirty Years War XLI
By Alex Richards The Battle of Freiburg had been a bloody and indecisive affair on the tactical level, but had created the strategic...
Nov 20, 20207 min read
PODs of the Thirty Years War XL
By Alex Richards With the defeat of the French at the Battle of Tuttlingen, the frontiers of the war in Swabia had returned to the same...
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