'The Tranquillity Alternative' review
By Alexander Wallace After the bold and daring adventures of American space exploration ended, science fiction lovers of all stripes have...
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Aug 11, 20216 min read
On Writing an Alternate History Short Story
By Alexander Wallace I will admit that I write this article with some reticence; it feels downright pompous to say I have the gall to...
Aug 9, 20218 min read
Vultures
By Alexander Wallace On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories...
Aug 4, 20213 min read
'Thessalonica' review
By Alexander Wallace Harry Turtledove has a special love for the Byzantine Empire. He has written a whole fantasy series with Byzantium...
Jul 28, 20216 min read
Israel, Palestine, and Malleability versus Accuracy in Alternate History
By Alexander Wallace I spent a period of about four months, from December 2020 to March 2021, reading almost nonstop about the fate of...
Jul 21, 20213 min read
'Steamboy' review
By Alexander Wallace This article was first published over here by our friends at Never Was Magazine and is shared as part of our...
Jul 14, 20215 min read
On the Choice of Points of View
By Alexander Wallace I, and a number of my colleagues who write for the Sea Lion Press blog, have become fond of quoting Liam Connell’s...
Jul 7, 20214 min read
'The Good German' review
By Alex Wallace I will admit to you that I only heard of Dennis Bock through a reddit thread about Canadian literature. He’s an author...
Jun 30, 20214 min read
'A Master of Djinn' review
By Alex Wallace I know that I have already beaten this long-dead horse into a fine powder, but I really, really wish that the online...
Jun 23, 20213 min read
'After Dachau' review
By Alexander Wallace I have talked before of strange ways of finding books. Now, I must praise BookBub, a book deal email service...
Jun 16, 20213 min read
'The Hot War' trilogy review
By Alexander Wallace As I like to say in discussions in Alternate History Online regarding nuclear wars between the Cold War hegemons,...
Jun 9, 20213 min read
'The Time Ships' review
By Alexander Wallace For those of you have read my other articles, I am quite the aficionado of the work of H. G. Wells, having written a...
Jun 2, 202110 min read
'Rodham' review
By Alexander Wallace Alternate history as a genre oftentimes has a skeptical attitude towards those outsiders who decide to engage in the...
May 19, 20213 min read
'Dominion' Review
By Alexander Wallace The very conceit of a German victory in World War II is in and of itself a cliche in our online alternate history...
May 12, 202121 min read
'The Old New Land' and the Doomed Utopia of Israel
By Alex Wallace “In the name of God, leave Palestine alone!” Yusuf Diya al-Khalidi, Mayor of Jerusalem in an 1899 letter to Zadok Kahn,...
May 5, 20215 min read
'In the Presence of Mine Enemies' review
By Alexander Wallace We alternate historians, and the broader popular culture more generally, rightfully think of Nazi Germany as being...
Apr 28, 20213 min read
'The Man with the Iron Heart' review
By Alexander Wallace Harry Turtledove has often been tarred within our community as being excessively parallelistic; certainly, most of...
Apr 23, 20213 min read
'Ruled Britannia' review
By Alexander Wallace Shakespeare can be hard to parse nowadays; he is often taught in such a manner that is antithetical to the spirit of...
Apr 21, 20214 min read
'If the South Had Won the Civil War' review
By Alexander Wallace American Civil War timelines are second only to World War II timelines in their ubiquity in alternate history...
Apr 14, 20213 min read
'Resurrection Day' review
By Alexander Wallace In my stead as the administrator of the Alternate History Online group on Facebook, whenever I see a question...
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