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Jun 173 min read
Book Nook: Casca
Reviewed by Colin Salt. Picture courtesy Amazon. A guy who was a one-hit wonder musician in the 1960s later starts a long semi-AH fiction...
Mar 293 min read
The Grand Colonel Effect: One Author's Rules for Alternate Names
By Colin Salt. Brigadier General Norvell Coots, commander Regional Health Command Europe. Potentially a Grand Colonel. Picture courtesy...
Mar 62 min read
The Ameriyak That Never Was
By Colin Salt The Yak-40. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Soviet airliners have an understandably poor reputation and record. It’s...
Jan 82 min read
Book Nook: In The Presence of Mine Enemies, Harry Turtledove.
Reviewed by Colin Salt. It's got swastikas. What are the odds it's an Axis-victory AH? Picture courtesy Amazon. Harry Turtledove is an...
Sep 11, 20232 min read
The Greatest Sports AH You've Never Heard Of
By Colin Salt What is Sports Alternate History? Its not as easy to pinpoint as we might expect. Let's take a look at one specific...
Aug 17, 20234 min read
A Matter of Character.
By Colin Salt Colin Salt is the author of The Smithtown Unit Characterisation in alternate history fiction can take forms both familiar...
Jul 24, 20232 min read
Book Nook: Smithtown Unit - an Author Commentary
By Colin Salt I’m calling this an author commentary instead of an author review. I really don’t feel like authors should “review” their...
Jun 14, 20233 min read
Book Nook: The Seventh Secret
Reviewed by Colin Salt Swastika. Check. Blood red splash. Check. Black cover. Check. It's all a bit predictable. The Seventh Secret by...
Mar 10, 20233 min read
When Wargaming Turns from Alternate To Actual History
By Colin Salt Even by the standards of a series that was never the best at conventional storytelling (to put it mildly) to begin with,...
Jan 27, 20233 min read
The Creepypasta Queen Who Never Was
By Colin Salt It's no secret that works change from start to end. And those changes can hugely effect how that work is perceived, how the...
Dec 9, 20222 min read
Packers Win! How Green Bay's NFL team matters to alternate history
By Colin Salt Green Bay, Wisconsin, has a population of only around 100,000 people. Yet it somehow has a National Football League team...
Sep 7, 20222 min read
Arthur Hailey: Technothriller Writer?
By Colin Salt This article is adapted from a Fuldapocalypse Post. Generally speaking, alternate history questions about how some creative...
Jul 26, 20222 min read
Review: The Gamekeeper's Night Dog
By Colin Salt Alternate history writers have frequently obsessed over some tangible thing. In many cases, it's been airships. In the The...
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 12, 20222 min read
The Mountain Flip Flop
By Colin Salt Switzerland and Afghanistan do not share much in common. The biggest similarities between the two are lots of mountains on...
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...
May 26, 20223 min read
The 21st Century Red Army That Never Was
By Colin Salt British Sovietologist Charles J. Dick passed away last year from Covid complications. He was known primarily for writing...
May 18, 20223 min read
Atomic Sealion
By Colin Salt One of the biggest cliches in alternate history is a German atomic bomb in World War II. This fits better with the other...
May 12, 20223 min read
Antonov America and Other Aerial Ambitions
By Colin Salt In the long, tangled struggle to introduce new tanker planes to the U.S. Air Force (which has been ongoing since the...
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