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Apr 15, 20226 min read
Review: Titanic: Adventure Out of Time
By Matthew Kresal A hundred and ten years ago, a grand ocean liner of the Edwardian era was caught up in fate and circumstances on its...
Apr 14, 20222 min read
Review: Weird World War III
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...
Apr 1, 20224 min read
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Martian Menace
By Matthew Kresal “You have been in Afghanistan, I perceive.” "No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century,...
Mar 21, 20224 min read
Review: Larry Bond's Cauldron
By Matthew Kresal As I type these words at the start of March 2022, the war between Ukraine and Russia has entered its second week. As...
Mar 4, 20224 min read
Review: Do You Dream Of Terra-Two? By Temi Oh
By Matthew Kresal Space flight and alternate history, they're curious bedfellows, one might say. Both are born of dreams: one of what's...
Feb 23, 20222 min read
'Born in Salt' review
By Alex Wallace Turning a democracy into a dictatorship is one of the oldest traditional scenarios in the alternate history genre. For...
Feb 18, 20224 min read
Review: Parting Shot By James Kunetka
By Matthew Kresal A Nazi atomic bomb. It's the lynchpin of numerous alternate history works for an Axis victory in World War II, from the...
Feb 16, 20222 min read
'City of the Saints' review
By Alex Wallace One of those strange historical footnotes the budding alternate historian will come across during their informal...
Feb 11, 20228 min read
Prime Minister Boris, and other things that ... happened?
By Charles E.P. Murphy Duncan Brack and Iain Dale’s recurring collections of That Never Happened articles are some of the more...
Feb 4, 20223 min read
Review: The Kennedy Enterprise
By Matthew Kresal The 1960s: the decade politically dominated by the Kennedys in the United States and saw the debut of one of science...
Feb 2, 20223 min read
'Blue Masquerade' review
By Alexander Wallace We in the West have an unfortunate tendency to think of the 1990s as a peaceful, sometimes outright boring, decade....
Jan 26, 20223 min read
'Fire On the Mountain' review
By Alexander Wallace Alternate history has a well-deserved reputation of being dour. Our community has become quite used, perhaps too...
Jan 21, 20225 min read
Spike's Alternate History: Nazi's Win WW2 (2011)
By Matthew Kresal As Matt Mitrovich noted recently on Twitter, alternate history primary residence continues to be literature. Something...
Jan 19, 20223 min read
'The Wandering Warriors' review
By Alexander Wallace There’s something about alternate historians and baseball. Harry Turtledove loves the sport, having written one...
Jan 14, 20223 min read
'After Hastings' review
By Alex Wallace The Norman Conquest of 1066 is for England what 1776 is for America: the moment that their nation was born. Despite their...
Jan 7, 20222 min read
Red Hammer 1994 Review
By Colin Salt Robert Radcliffe's Red Hammer 1994 is an alternate history novel about a Russo-American World War III. Unlike some of the...
Jan 5, 20223 min read
'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...
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 24, 20214 min read
Review: The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal
By Matthew Kresal The Moon, our nearest celestial neighbor, has long occupied a place in the human imagination. Before Apollo 11 landed...
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...
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