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May 6, 20242 min read
Monthly Vignette: Protecting the Served.
By Alex Wallace. Oh, good. Vignette time again. This month, our vignette is from the 72nd vignette challenge, which had as its theme:...

Apr 6, 20245 min read
Monthly Vignette: Comfort in Cartoons
By Alex Wallace. This month, our vignette is from the 36th vignette challenge, which had as its theme: “Anime.” This was the winning...


Oct 30, 20233 min read
The Alternate Lavender Island.
Marooned guest: Alex Wallace Lavender Island, now home to Alex Wallace. Once again, we interview our guest who is about to be marooned,...

Nov 2, 20223 min read
Vignette: And Never To Be Written
By Alex Wallace On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...


Aug 12, 20222 min read
Review: Civilizations
By Alex Wallace It always interests me, if with some trepidation, whenever someone of a literary bent attempts alternate history. At...

Jul 22, 202225 min read
Panel Discussion: What is Plausibility?
By Alexander Wallace, Gary Oswald, Matthew Kresal, Colin Salt and Mark Ciccone Salt: Plausibility. That word has spawned a million...


Jul 19, 20222 min read
In Memoriam: Eric Flint
By Alex Wallace I only ever met Eric Flint once. It was at Capclave, the convention run by the Washington Science Fiction Association in...


Jun 22, 20223 min read
Review: The Crossing
By Alex Wallace It can feel like the ISOT (a trope named after Island in the Sea of Time by S.M. Sterling wherein people from one time...

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 14, 20222 min read
Review: Weird World War III
By Alex Wallace This article was first published over here by our friends at Never Was Magazine and is shared as part of our partnership...

Mar 18, 202212 min read
Panel Discussion: Guns and Butter - Part 2
By Alexander Wallace, Liam Connell, Arturo Serrano, Colin Salt and Alison Morton This is an experiment: a panel discussion, modelled on...


Mar 16, 202217 min read
Panel Discussion: Guns and Butter - Part 1
By Alexander Wallace, Liam Connell, Arturo Serrano, Colin Salt and Alison Morton This is an experiment: a panel discussion, modelled on...


Feb 23, 20222 min read
'Born in Salt' review
By Alex Wallace Turning a democracy into a dictatorship is one of the oldest traditional scenarios in the alternate history genre. For...


Feb 16, 20222 min read
'City of the Saints' review
By Alex Wallace One of those strange historical footnotes the budding alternate historian will come across during their informal...


Feb 2, 20223 min read
'Blue Masquerade' review
By Alexander Wallace We in the West have an unfortunate tendency to think of the 1990s as a peaceful, sometimes outright boring, decade....


Jan 26, 20223 min read
'Fire On the Mountain' review
By Alexander Wallace Alternate history has a well-deserved reputation of being dour. Our community has become quite used, perhaps too...


Jan 19, 20223 min read
'The Wandering Warriors' review
By Alexander Wallace There’s something about alternate historians and baseball. Harry Turtledove loves the sport, having written one...


Jan 14, 20223 min read
'After Hastings' review
By Alex Wallace The Norman Conquest of 1066 is for England what 1776 is for America: the moment that their nation was born. Despite their...


Jan 10, 20224 min read
The Tree that Exploits Its Own Surplus Value
By Alex Wallace On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...
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