'Yaqteenya: the Old World' review
By Alex Wallace Today, I have the distinct pleasure to introduce to the Anglophone online alternate history something that is entirely...
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Dec 29, 20214 min read
Review - 'To Climates Unknown'
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...
Dec 22, 20213 min read
At the 2021 Sidewise Awards Ceremony at DISCON III
By Alexander Wallace At four P.M, Eastern Standard time on December eighteenth, 2021, a large number of fans of the alternate history...
Dec 15, 20212 min read
'Through the Dark Mirror' review
By Alex Wallace One of the oldest forms of alternate history is the portal fantasy involving real history. Much of the genesis of the...
Dec 8, 20212 min read
'Sleep and the Soul' review
By Alexander Wallace Greg Egan is not an author I associate with alternate history; he strikes me as a more modern version of Arthur C....
Dec 1, 20212 min read
'Big Stick' review
By Alexander Wallace Of the entire constellation of things that alternate historians love, two of the brightest stars are Theodore...
Nov 24, 20213 min read
'The Last Days of New Paris' review
By Alex Wallace We don’t generally think of China Miéville as an alternate history author. We know him to be the standard bearer of the...
Nov 17, 20216 min read
The 'Lady Astronaut' Series as Climate Change Wish Fulfillment
By Alex Wallace Unfortunately, I was relatively late to read Mary Robinette Kowal’s Lady Astronaut series (the first two volumes of which...
Nov 10, 20212 min read
'Mem' Review
By Alex Wallace There is a small but steadily more noticeable trend of more ‘mainstream’ science fiction and fantasy writers using...
Nov 3, 20212 min read
'Summerland' review
By Alexander Wallace When writers want to bring back the feel of interwar pulp fiction, they will of course exploit the technology and...
Oct 27, 20213 min read
'Anti-Ice' review
By Alexander Wallace When I was reading many of the spinoffs of H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds, no work impressed me more than...
Oct 20, 20213 min read
On Marvel's 'What If...?' as Alternate History
By Alexander Wallace My august colleague Colin Salt remarked on the Sea Lion Press forum that Marvel’s What If…?, recently having...
Oct 13, 20212 min read
'The Scorpion and the Syrinx' review
By Alexander Wallace The alternate history genre grew, ultimately, out of portal fantasy stories in science fiction magazines. Despite...
Oct 6, 20213 min read
'Jimmy Dean's Last Dance' review
By Alexander Wallace The author was provided an Advanced Review Copy of this novel. Sometimes, the people in the media we fawn over are...
Sep 29, 20215 min read
On 'Redchapel' and the Memory of Jack the Ripper
By Alexander Wallace Let us be frank for a moment: our societies love serial killers. We have created terms like ‘morbid fascination’ to...
Sep 22, 20213 min read
'Tales from Alternate Earths III' review
By Alex Wallace Gary Oswald, this blog’s editor, once called Inklings press a sister publisher to Sea Lion Press. It’s a fair thing to...
Sep 15, 20213 min read
'Between the Helpless and the Darkness' review
By Alexander Wallace Regular readers of my work on this blog will know how fond I am of Liam Connell’s exhortation to write alternate...
Sep 8, 20212 min read
'River of Teeth' review
By Alex Wallace Louisiana Representative Robert Broussard’s 1910 proposal to import hippopotamuses to the United States was an odd...
Sep 1, 20216 min read
On 'Axis of Andes' and Adapting Online Alternate History for Publication
By Alexander Wallace D. G. Valdron’s Axis of Andes duology was recently reviewed on this site. It is a work that, for better or for...
Aug 25, 20212 min read
'The Eagle and the Bluebird' review
By Alex Wallace Sometimes, good things come in small packages. Such was The Eagle and the Bluebird, a story of only thirty-eight pages by...
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