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A short stories published by Sea Lion Press has won the short-form category of the Sidewise Awards, the annual prize for alternate...

By Sarah Zama Sarah Zama, @jazzfeathers on twitter and a writer of historical fantasy stories set in the 1920s, did 26 blog posts in 2018...

By Alex Wallace One of the oldest forms of alternate history is the portal fantasy involving real history. Much of the genesis of the...

Questions from Gary Oswald Counter factual and Alternate History discussion and fiction is a large and healthy online community. Sea Lion...

By Matthew Kresal What would Doctor Who be without the Daleks? If they hadn't featured in the second-ever serial, broadcast in the winter...

By Alexander Wallace Greg Egan is not an author I associate with alternate history; he strikes me as a more modern version of Arthur C....

By Tom Anderson In my most recent article, I discussed fantasy authors’ ideas for magical stand-ins for technology. This article is the...

By Jared Kavanagh On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on...

By Alexander Wallace Of the entire constellation of things that alternate historians love, two of the brightest stars are Theodore...

By Sarah Zama Sarah Zama, @jazzfeathers on twitter and a writer of historical fantasy stories set in the 1920s, did 26 blog posts in 2018...

By Matthew Kresal Some of the first exposures to alternate history people often come across are when popular franchises tell such tales,...

By Alex Wallace We don’t generally think of China Miéville as an alternate history author. We know him to be the standard bearer of the...

By Tom Anderson One difficulty of writing works of fiction set in our own world, which is arguably common to all genres but particularly...

By Colin Salt There is one plot element late in the either 27 or 29 book Survivalist series [depending on if you count the two...

By Alex Wallace Unfortunately, I was relatively late to read Mary Robinette Kowal’s Lady Astronaut series (the first two volumes of which...

By Sarah Zama Sarah Zama, @jazzfeathers on twitter and a writer of historical fantasy stories set in the 1920s, did 26 blog posts in 2018...

By Matthew Kresal The Elizabethan age of British history often is portrayed as something of a golden age. The Virgin Queen on the throne,...

By Alex Wallace There is a small but steadily more noticeable trend of more ‘mainstream’ science fiction and fantasy writers using...

By Tom Anderson In the last three articles I’ve discussed the concept of the franchise reboot (itself somewhat hard to define) and the...

By Paul Hynes On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...