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Jan 28, 20222 min read
The Greatest Villain in Alternate History
By Colin Salt One of ways in which John Schettler's gargantuan (to put it mildly) Kirov series somehow works is by still having its plots...


Jan 26, 20223 min read
'Fire On the Mountain' review
By Alexander Wallace Alternate history has a well-deserved reputation of being dour. Our community has become quite used, perhaps too...


Jan 24, 20226 min read
Interviewing the AH Community: Dawn Vogel
Questions from Gary Oswald Counter factual and Alternate History discussion and fiction is a large and healthy online community. Sea Lion...


Jan 21, 20225 min read
Spike's Alternate History: Nazi's Win WW2 (2011)
By Matthew Kresal As Matt Mitrovich noted recently on Twitter, alternate history primary residence continues to be literature. Something...


Jan 19, 20223 min read
'The Wandering Warriors' review
By Alexander Wallace There’s something about alternate historians and baseball. Harry Turtledove loves the sport, having written one...


Jan 17, 202215 min read
Prequel Problems: Rogue One
By Tom Anderson It is fair to say that, since Disney acquired Star Wars in 2012, the content that has been produced has been met with a...


Jan 14, 20223 min read
'After Hastings' review
By Alex Wallace The Norman Conquest of 1066 is for England what 1776 is for America: the moment that their nation was born. Despite their...


Jan 12, 202213 min read
Interviewing the AH Community: Carlos Arturo Serrano
Questions from Gary Oswald Counter factual and Alternate History discussion and fiction is a large and healthy online community. Sea Lion...


Jan 10, 20224 min read
The Tree that Exploits Its Own Surplus Value
By Alex Wallace On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...


Jan 7, 20222 min read
Red Hammer 1994 Review
By Colin Salt Robert Radcliffe's Red Hammer 1994 is an alternate history novel about a Russo-American World War III. Unlike some of the...


Jan 5, 20223 min read
'Yaqteenya: the Old World' review
By Alex Wallace Today, I have the distinct pleasure to introduce to the Anglophone online alternate history something that is entirely...


Jan 3, 202216 min read
Prequel Problems: Michael Stackpole, The Continuity Strikes Back
By Tom Anderson Some time ago, I penned (keyboard-ed?) a series of articles looking at the old Star Wars Expanded Universe of (mostly)...


Dec 31, 20218 min read
Alternate History as a Political Tract
By Gary Oswald Politics is innately concerned with Alternate History. When your party wins an election and then you have to go back four...


Dec 29, 20214 min read
Review - 'To Climates Unknown'
By Alex Wallace This article was first published over here by our friends at Never Was Magazine and is shared as part of our partnership...


Dec 27, 20212 min read
The Making of a Division
By Colin Salt When making alternate armies that are far larger than their real life counterparts, it's important to note the important...


Dec 24, 20214 min read
Review: The Relentless Moon by Mary Robinette Kowal
By Matthew Kresal The Moon, our nearest celestial neighbor, has long occupied a place in the human imagination. Before Apollo 11 landed...

Dec 23, 20211 min read
NEW RELEASES: AlloAmericana and The King's Mission
Just in time for Christmas! If you want to fill up your new Kindle with some Sea Lion Press books this Saturday, or you're looking for...

Dec 22, 20213 min read
At the 2021 Sidewise Awards Ceremony at DISCON III
By Alexander Wallace At four P.M, Eastern Standard time on December eighteenth, 2021, a large number of fans of the alternate history...


Dec 20, 202119 min read
Fiction Friction: Fantasy Counterpart Cultures, Part 2
By Tom Anderson In this article’s predecessor, I discussed a number of examples of how fantasy authors have taken inspiration from the...


Dec 19, 20211 min read
Matthew Kresal wins a Sidewise Award!
A short stories published by Sea Lion Press has won the short-form category of the Sidewise Awards, the annual prize for alternate...
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