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Aug 23, 20232 min read
Medical fee crowdfund appeal
Matthew Kresal is organising this crowdfund appeal. *** My Mom, Sandra, had two back surgeries in three days in January 2023 at...


Aug 22, 202311 min read
POD Cast: 22 August 1485. Part 1
By Tim Venning We can be fairly sure the Battle of Bosworth wasn't like this. Picture by James Doyle. Courtesy Wikimedia Commons. The...


Aug 21, 202311 min read
Alternate History and Stargate. Part 3
By Tom Anderson It's a high-tech magic wardrobe. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. In my last Alternate History (AH) in Stargate...


Aug 18, 202310 min read
Tales from Development Hell: The Bodyguard
By Ryan Fleming Inevitably, it was also made into a Musical. Bodyguards don't normally burst into song. Trust me on that. Picture...


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...


Aug 16, 202312 min read
Writing AH. Anachronisms Part 5: Fly Me to the Moon
By Tom Anderson A long way to go. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. My fellow SLP writer Andy Cooke has been known to opine his...


Aug 14, 20235 min read
60 Years of Doctor Who. Part 5: The Fifth Doctor
By Matthew Kresal Following Tom Baker. A tough ask. Picture Courtesy Big Finish Productions. When Tom Baker left Doctor Who after seven...


Aug 11, 202314 min read
An Alternate History of Horror XIV: Paperbacks from Hell
By Ryan Fleming. Frankenstein at work in his laboratory. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Modern horror fiction was born in novels....


Aug 10, 20237 min read
Alternate History and Stargate. Part 2
By Tom Anderson Interest in reviving the franchise? According to Digital Spy, maybe. Picture courtesy Digital Spy. In my previous...


Aug 8, 20235 min read
Insulting a Regiment
By David Flin The inspiration for so much stuff. Available from LibriVox. In a previous article , Eoin Mulligan gave us an overview of...


Aug 7, 20238 min read
Comics Part 3: Judge Meant - The Early Unpublished Dredds
By Charles EP Murphy Comic's favourite fascist in an iconic moment. Picture courtesy GamesRadar+. He spent fifteen years in the academy –...

Aug 5, 20239 min read
Monthly Vignette: Führer Directive 834
By John A. Hopkins On Sealion Press Forums , we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...


Aug 4, 20238 min read
60 Years of Doctor Who. Part 4: The Fourth Doctor
By Matthew Kresal Harry, Sarah, and Tom Baker. The Iconic Doctor Who. In my opinion. Picture courtesy Big Finish. Ask a Doctor Who fan...


Aug 2, 202310 min read
Sport in Alternate History. Part 3: Edgbaston 2005
By Pete Usher The smallest trophy in world team sports. Michael Vaughan holding The Ashes after victory in 2005. Picture courtesy ESPN....


Jul 31, 202317 min read
Alternate History and Stargate. Part 1.
By Tom Anderson. The eponymous Stargate, from the 1994 film. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. The Stargate franchise debuted in 1994...


Jul 30, 20232 min read
Announcement: Holiday Break
Hello. Fret not, it’s me that’s taking the holiday break, not the Blog. I’ll be away for most of August, and will not really be...

Jul 29, 20232 min read
Alternate Quotes
By David Flin He's not going to be amused, is he. It all started with a joke. Someone (I forget who) quoted Churchill’s famous comment...


Jul 28, 202314 min read
Alternate History of Horror. Part XIII: Bad Karma
By Ryan Fleming Sales of chainsaws rose after the film. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. As the 1960s became the 1970s, US horror...


Jul 27, 20236 min read
What's Opera, Doc? Part 5, Collaborations (ii). Soloists
By Alex Richards Renatus Meszar as Wotan in Die Walkure; “Wotan’s exactly like us: he is the sum of today’s intellectual consciousness,...


Jul 25, 20235 min read
Comic Corner: Captain Britain by Alan Moore and Alan Davis
Towards an Earth that is not Earth. Alternate realities - don't you just love them. Written in the early 1980s, this series, along with...
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