'The House of Daniel' review
By Alexander Wallace I have the somewhat unpopular opinion in alternate history circles that Harry Turtledove remains perhaps my favorite...
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Apr 3, 20219 min read
Iron-Shod or Golden-Sandaled
By Alexander Wallace On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories...
Mar 31, 20213 min read
V-S Day review
By Alexander Wallace The space race is a fascinating time; it’s one of superpower competition and cutting-edge technology that ended up...
Mar 22, 20213 min read
'Superman: Red Son' film review
By Alexander Wallace When I was a neophyte to online alternate history, Mark Millar’s Superman: Red Son was one of the most commonly...
Mar 17, 20213 min read
On Alternate History and Free Will
By Alexander Wallace The very notion that the universe is a clockwork contraption with subatomic particles as the cogs can send shivers...
Mar 10, 20213 min read
'Another Girl, Another Planet' review
By Alexander Wallace It took me far too long to actually get around to reading Another Girl, Another Planet; I had attended RavenCon some...
Mar 3, 20213 min read
Dragon America review
By Alexander Wallace The American Revolution has become a legend for the United States, as wars of national liberation have become for...
Feb 24, 20213 min read
'The Bat and Balloon War' review
By Alexander Wallace Back when I was getting into the alternate history fandom in the early 2010s, I read many strange alternate history...
Feb 17, 20213 min read
'Or Even Eagle Flew' review
By Alexander Wallace She disappeared over the Pacific after taking off from Lae in Papua New Guinea, and from there was never seen again....
Feb 10, 20213 min read
Noble Eagle in its Flight: 'Afronauts' as Alternate History
By Alexander Wallace All too often, those of us in the West have rather skewed views of what we consider ‘developed.’ Much of the world...
Feb 3, 20213 min read
'The Impeachment of Abraham Lincoln' review
By Alexander Wallace Abraham Lincoln is now widely revered as the savior of the American republic, second only to George Washington in...
Jan 27, 20213 min read
The Walking Wonder Weapon: Looking Back at '1945A'
By Alex Wallace To be perfectly honest I don’t remember where I first encountered 1945A; it was probably through YouTube’s related video...
Jan 20, 20213 min read
Review: Ring Shout
By Alex Wallace Racism is oftentimes a terrifying thing to those who have to bear the brunt of it. In the Jim Crow South, specifically...
Jan 13, 20216 min read
Alternate History when the Capitol is Stormed: Musings on Our Genre and Recent Events
By Alex Wallace I can’t help but have noticed how, since at least Trump was elected, and intensifying with the coming of the pandemic,...
Jan 6, 20213 min read
Review: The History of Time Travel
By Alexander Wallace Much like the piece I did on Roll Northumbria, this little film is one of those wonderful little things that an...
Dec 30, 20203 min read
A Cruel War in Low Germany: Looking Back at Ralph Peters' 'Red Army'
By Alexander Wallace The likes of Tom Clancy and Larry Bond captured a certain American triumphalist zeitgeist that ran throughout the...
Dec 23, 20204 min read
Reading 'The War in 2020' in 2020
By Alex Wallace There’s a certain poetry, I feel, in reading old science fiction the year in which it is set. You see two mirrors,...
Dec 16, 202062 min read
Swingin' Through the Time Stream: Social Dance in Alternate History
By Alex Wallace I once remarked on a radio show on which I was a guest that I had two great loves: speculative fiction (alternate history...
Dec 9, 20203 min read
Nuclear Santa: Red Christmas review
By Alex Wallace I’ve talked before of algorithms giving me gold; now I turn to a different source of joy (to the world?). Here, I shall...
Dec 2, 20205 min read
Review: Another Now
By Alexander Wallace It’s 2008. The bottom has fallen out from under the housing market. The world plunges into recession, leading to...
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