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Sep 3, 20214 min read
Review: The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal
By Matthew Kresal Space flight, both human and robotic, offers up a rich vein for practitioners of alternate history to mine stories....
Sep 1, 20216 min read
On 'Axis of Andes' and Adapting Online Alternate History for Publication
By Alexander Wallace D. G. Valdron’s Axis of Andes duology was recently reviewed on this site. It is a work that, for better or for...
Aug 27, 20212 min read
Review: Long Reach by Mike Lunnon-Wood
By Colin Salt Long Reach was a novel that I started off with iffy feelings towards, but which has grown on me as I recognized the rarity...
Aug 25, 20212 min read
'The Eagle and the Bluebird' review
By Alex Wallace Sometimes, good things come in small packages. Such was The Eagle and the Bluebird, a story of only thirty-eight pages by...
Aug 20, 20215 min read
Doctor Who Unbound: He Jests At Scars...
By Matthew Kresal In 1986, Doctor Who came back from an eighteen-month hiatus with an ambitious, season-long story arc. A season that saw...
Aug 18, 20212 min read
'The Tranquillity Alternative' review
By Alexander Wallace After the bold and daring adventures of American space exploration ended, science fiction lovers of all stripes have...
Aug 6, 20214 min read
The New Dinosaurs
By Matthew Kresal Whether we view alternate history as a setting or a genre in its own right, even a cursory overview of it shows...
Aug 4, 20213 min read
'Thessalonica' review
By Alexander Wallace Harry Turtledove has a special love for the Byzantine Empire. He has written a whole fantasy series with Byzantium...
Jul 23, 20215 min read
Doctor Who Unbound: Full Fathom Five
By Matthew Kresal The late Terrance Dicks, script editor of Doctor Who from 1969-74 and who perhaps wrote for more incarnations of the...
Jul 21, 20213 min read
'Steamboy' review
By Alexander Wallace This article was first published over here by our friends at Never Was Magazine and is shared as part of our...
Jul 16, 20215 min read
'Axis of Andes' review
By Gary Oswald Amateur AH exists for the same reason any amateur writing does. Partly because people just like to write in a relatively...
Jul 9, 20214 min read
Review: Timequest
By Matthew Kresal The 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy has become one of those touchstone events of the 20th century....
Jul 7, 20214 min read
'The Good German' review
By Alex Wallace I will admit to you that I only heard of Dennis Bock through a reddit thread about Canadian literature. He’s an author...
Jun 30, 20214 min read
'A Master of Djinn' review
By Alex Wallace I know that I have already beaten this long-dead horse into a fine powder, but I really, really wish that the online...
Jun 25, 20216 min read
Doctor Who Unbound: Sympathy For The Devil
By Matthew Kresal Doctor Who's seventh season, aired in the opening months of 1970, would prove to be a decisive one for the history of...
Jun 23, 20213 min read
'After Dachau' review
By Alexander Wallace I have talked before of strange ways of finding books. Now, I must praise BookBub, a book deal email service...
Jun 16, 20213 min read
'The Hot War' trilogy review
By Alexander Wallace As I like to say in discussions in Alternate History Online regarding nuclear wars between the Cold War hegemons,...
Jun 11, 20213 min read
Review: Last Flight of the Arrow
By Matthew Kresal The Avro Arrow is one of those incredible what-if stories to come out of the Cold War. A Canadian-built fighter for the...
Jun 9, 20213 min read
'The Time Ships' review
By Alexander Wallace For those of you have read my other articles, I am quite the aficionado of the work of H. G. Wells, having written a...
Jun 2, 202110 min read
'Rodham' review
By Alexander Wallace Alternate history as a genre oftentimes has a skeptical attitude towards those outsiders who decide to engage in the...
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