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Jun 13, 202210 min read
Interview: Leo McBride
Questions from Gary Oswald This Interview is with Leo McBride, a speculative fiction writer and co founder of Inklings Press who can be...


Jun 10, 20223 min read
Midway, Alternate History, and the Matter of Interpretation
By Matthew Kresal Eighty years ago this week, one of the defining battles of the Second World War's Pacific theatre took place. The...

Jun 9, 202210 min read
Africa During the Scramble: Guns of the Sotho
By Gary Oswald Henry Bartle Frere was recalled to London in August 1880 by the new Gladstone ministry to answer for having launched an...

Jun 8, 20226 min read
Interview: Jack Chambers-Ward
Questions from Gary Oswald This Interview is with Jack Chambers-Ward, the Host of the podcast Sequelisers He can be found on twitter and...


Jun 6, 202217 min read
Alternate History in Star Trek Part 9: The Continuing Mission of TNG
By Tom Anderson When we last left off looking at Star Trek: The Next Generation in Part 6, it was with the iconic end-of-season-3...

Jun 3, 202218 min read
Panel Discussion: All the Myriad Ways - Part 2
By Alexander Wallace, Adam Selby-Martin, Arturo Serrano, Colin Salt and Matt Mitrovich This is a panel discussion, modelled on live...

Jun 2, 20227 min read
Vignette: The Quiet Max
By Charles EP Murphy On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories...

Jun 1, 202212 min read
Panel Discussion: All the Myriad Ways - Part 1
By Alexander Wallace, Adam Selby-Martin, Arturo Serrano, Colin Salt and Matt Mitrovich Wallace: In the Sea Lion Press forum community and...


May 30, 202218 min read
Fiction Friction: “Prince Caspian” and How to Write Time Travel Well
By Tom Anderson I wrote ‘time travel’ in the title of this article, but really it could apply to any sort of circumstance in which a...

May 27, 20225 min read
Review: For All Mankind: Season Two
By Matthew Kresal In 2019, Apple TV+ brought viewers an alternate history vision of a space race that never ended. Created by Ronald D....


May 26, 20223 min read
The 21st Century Red Army That Never Was
By Colin Salt British Sovietologist Charles J. Dick passed away last year from Covid complications. He was known primarily for writing...


May 25, 202211 min read
Africa During the Scramble: The Spider in the Web
By Gary Oswald British Policy towards Southern Africa was always somewhat hot and cold, depending on who was in Power in London, in terms...


May 23, 202211 min read
Alternate History in Star Trek Part 8: Early TNG Comics and Novels
By Tom Anderson In my last article, I noted that the period 1987-1991 saw a great deal of spinoff content produced starring the original...


May 20, 202214 min read
What If Turkey Had Entered World War II?
By Dale Cozort This Scenario was originally posted on Dale's Website in 1998. Essays like this can be found in Dale's 'Space Bats and...

May 19, 20229 min read
Living the Twenties: P,Q,R
By Sarah Zama Sarah Zama, @jazzfeathers on twitter and a writer of historical fantasy stories set in the 1920s, did 26 blog posts in 2020...


May 18, 20223 min read
Atomic Sealion
By Colin Salt One of the biggest cliches in alternate history is a German atomic bomb in World War II. This fits better with the other...


May 16, 202210 min read
Africa During the Scramble: The Worst Mistake in Human History
By Gary Oswald In 1856, the Xhosa people of the Western and Eastern Cape provinces of modern South Africa committed possibly the single...


May 13, 20224 min read
Review: For All Mankind: Season One
By Matthew Kresal The 1960s Space Race, and what might have followed a landing on the Moon, has proven a rich seam for alternate history...


May 12, 20223 min read
Antonov America and Other Aerial Ambitions
By Colin Salt In the long, tangled struggle to introduce new tanker planes to the U.S. Air Force (which has been ongoing since the...


May 11, 202214 min read
Africa During the Scramble: The Kat River Experiment
By Gary Oswald One of the most shocking things about the Scramble of Africa was its speed. In less than 40 years, Africa went from mostly...
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