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Dec 8, 20212 min read
'Sleep and the Soul' review
By Alexander Wallace Greg Egan is not an author I associate with alternate history; he strikes me as a more modern version of Arthur C....
Dec 1, 20212 min read
'Big Stick' review
By Alexander Wallace Of the entire constellation of things that alternate historians love, two of the brightest stars are Theodore...
Nov 26, 20215 min read
I, Alastair & The Inferno Universe
By Matthew Kresal Some of the first exposures to alternate history people often come across are when popular franchises tell such tales,...
Nov 24, 20213 min read
'The Last Days of New Paris' review
By Alex Wallace We don’t generally think of China Miéville as an alternate history author. We know him to be the standard bearer of the...
Nov 19, 20215 min read
Series Review: The Survivalist
By Colin Salt There is one plot element late in the either 27 or 29 book Survivalist series [depending on if you count the two...
Nov 12, 20215 min read
Doctor Who Unbound: A Storm Of Angels
By Matthew Kresal The Elizabethan age of British history often is portrayed as something of a golden age. The Virgin Queen on the throne,...
Nov 10, 20212 min read
'Mem' Review
By Alex Wallace There is a small but steadily more noticeable trend of more ‘mainstream’ science fiction and fantasy writers using...
Nov 3, 20212 min read
'Summerland' review
By Alexander Wallace When writers want to bring back the feel of interwar pulp fiction, they will of course exploit the technology and...
Oct 27, 20213 min read
'Anti-Ice' review
By Alexander Wallace When I was reading many of the spinoffs of H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds, no work impressed me more than...
Oct 20, 20213 min read
On Marvel's 'What If...?' as Alternate History
By Alexander Wallace My august colleague Colin Salt remarked on the Sea Lion Press forum that Marvel’s What If…?, recently having...
Oct 18, 20217 min read
'Dark Rose' review
By Charles E.P. Murphy Over a period of years, quietly, Ireland is conquered. A highly coordinated buyout of financial assets is combined...
Oct 15, 20214 min read
Doctor Who Unbound: Exile
By Matthew Kresal As I type these words at the tail end of summer 2021, Jodie Whittaker has played the Doctor in the BBC's Doctor Who...
Oct 13, 20212 min read
'The Scorpion and the Syrinx' review
By Alexander Wallace The alternate history genre grew, ultimately, out of portal fantasy stories in science fiction magazines. Despite...
Oct 6, 20213 min read
'Jimmy Dean's Last Dance' review
By Alexander Wallace The author was provided an Advanced Review Copy of this novel. Sometimes, the people in the media we fawn over are...
Oct 1, 20213 min read
Batman: Gotham By Gaslight Film Review
By Matthew Kresal People come to alternate history in different ways. For some, it's through historical moments and scenarios, wondering...
Sep 22, 20213 min read
'Tales from Alternate Earths III' review
By Alex Wallace Gary Oswald, this blog’s editor, once called Inklings press a sister publisher to Sea Lion Press. It’s a fair thing to...
Sep 17, 20215 min read
Doctor Who Unbound: Deadline
By Matthew Kresal There's a line said by Anthony Ainley's Master in the 1983 anniversary story The Five Doctors that's become something...
Sep 15, 20213 min read
'Between the Helpless and the Darkness' review
By Alexander Wallace Regular readers of my work on this blog will know how fond I am of Liam Connell’s exhortation to write alternate...
Sep 10, 20213 min read
Review: Guns of the South
By Colin Salt Harry Turtledove's breakout novel, Guns of the South is the story of time travellers altering the American Civil War by...
Sep 8, 20212 min read
'River of Teeth' review
By Alex Wallace Louisiana Representative Robert Broussard’s 1910 proposal to import hippopotamuses to the United States was an odd...
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