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By Tom Anderson William Jennings Bryan was one of the most influential figures in American political history, despite failing to win the...

By Tom Anderson Ask a writer—certainly an Anglophone one—which era they immediately picture when they hear the words ‘naval fiction, and...

By Tom Anderson In my Consequences in Alternate History articles, I’ve described chains of happenstance occurrences that have led from a...

By Tom Anderson In previous articles in this series, we looked at naval history through the topics of the Mediterranean galley, and then...

By Tom Anderson An Alternate History Consequences article It is no great revelation to reflect that elements of works of fiction may not...

By Tom Anderson In the first part of this multi-part article, I looked at the millennia-long history of the Mediterranean galley as a...

By Tom Anderson CAT: Wait, I know this game. It's called cat and mouse, and there's only one way to win; don't be the mouse! LISTER: What...

By Tom Anderson The men and women who go to sea have always captured the human imagination. Some nations, often island nations such as...

By Tom Anderson Habeas Corpus, Latin for ‘you have to have the body’, is one of the most celebrated fundamental principles of liberty in...

By Tom Anderson The origins of political party colours were briefly mentioned in my previous article on the origins of ideological names....

By Tom Anderson Masters of the near miss, (“‘Constant sunshine’? Three-foot drifts!”) Masters of the half-truth, (“Anybody ‘ere seen my...

By Tom Anderson One of the most recognisable symbols of modern militaries is the insignia displayed on aircraft. Just in the UK for...

By Tom Anderson Picture this: the President of the United States has had a long, trying set of negotiations with the President of Chile....

By Tom Anderson In Harry Turtledove and Richard Dreyfuss’ “The Two Georges” (recently reviewed here on Sea Lion Press by Ryan Fleming), a...

By Tom Anderson Today, though many will still recognise the character of Popeye the Sailor Man, and perhaps recall features such as his...

By Tom Anderson As has been discussed in previous articles, the value of alternate terminology in an alternate history (AH) work is as an...

By Tom Anderson In the 1930s, Frederick Emmons Terman was the Dean of Engineering at Stanford University in California. He was one of the...

By Tom Anderson Regardless of one’s nation, the military are generally a good source of unique and often jargonistic terminology...

By Tom Anderson On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write vignettes on a...

By Tom Anderson Looking back from the second decade of the twenty-first century, we can see that the fantasy genre has gone from strength...