Review: Axiom's End
By Alex Wallace I started Axiom’s End with anticipation; I am quite aware of Lindsay Ellis’ reputation online although I will say I...
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Nov 4, 202010 min read
Vast and Cool and Unsympathetic: 'The War of the Worlds' in Alternate History
By Alex Wallace “No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly...
Oct 21, 20202 min read
Author Spotlight: Ted Chiang
By Alexander Wallace In the world of print science fiction there are few names more lauded than that of Ted Chiang, who, despite his...
Oct 13, 20208 min read
Yearning to Breathe
By Alexander Ramos Wallace On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short...
Oct 8, 20208 min read
Interviewing the AH Community: Alex Wallace of 'Alternate History Online'
Questions by Gary Oswald Counter factual and Alternate History discussion and fiction is a relatively tight-knit online community. Sea...
Oct 7, 20203 min read
Author Spotlight: P. Djèlí Clark
By Alexander Wallace This is the first of what I hope will be a series of articles highlighting authors of alternate history whose work...
Sep 23, 20204 min read
On Asking Good Alternate History Questions
By Alex Wallace In my capacity as the administrator of the Alternate History Online (AHO) Facebook group, I have seen many new alternate...
Sep 9, 20204 min read
Review - The Plot Against America
By Alexander Wallace Reading the original novel The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth, published in 2004, it can feel like it was...
Aug 26, 20205 min read
The World Set Free
By Alexander Wallace In certain political science (or political shitposting) circles there is a term ‘accelerationism,’ referring to a...
Aug 12, 20205 min read
On the One Good Sex Scene in Alternate History
By Alexander Wallace I was greatly dismayed when, after two seasons of avoiding such an obvious trap, the third season of The Man in the...
Jul 22, 20204 min read
Alternate History at the 2020 Hugos
By Alexander Wallace As this article goes to press online voting for the Hugo awards is still open. It will close Wednesday 22 July 2020...
Jul 15, 20208 min read
'The War in the Air' and the Cult of the Airship
By Alexander Wallace “All Change Points, from Xerxes to the last presidential election, create worlds with clean, efficient Zeppelin...
Jul 3, 20205 min read
An Ocean of Flame: "Roll Northumbria" and Alternate History
By Alexander Wallace There are times when YouTube’s recommended videos give you gold; one of those times has led me to write this...
Jun 6, 20205 min read
Traditions in AH
By Alexander Wallace As alternate history continues its slow lurch into the mainstream it becomes clearer and clearer to me that the...
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