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The Ballad Of Mike Sparks
By Colin Salt Mike Sparks is one of the most infamous internet commentators about military matters. He is known for his crazed...
Sep 24, 20214 min read


'Tales from Alternate Earths III' review
By Alex Wallace Gary Oswald, this blog’s editor, once called Inklings press a sister publisher to Sea Lion Press. It’s a fair thing to...
Sep 22, 20213 min read

Weimar Germany- J,K,L
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...
Sep 20, 20219 min read


Doctor Who Unbound: Deadline
By Matthew Kresal There's a line said by Anthony Ainley's Master in the 1983 anniversary story The Five Doctors that's become something...
Sep 17, 20215 min read


'Between the Helpless and the Darkness' review
By Alexander Wallace Regular readers of my work on this blog will know how fond I am of Liam Connell’s exhortation to write alternate...
Sep 15, 20213 min read


Fiction Friction: The Transatlantic Divide in Fantasy Covers
By Tom Anderson In today’s globalised world™ of Amazon and ebooks and the like, it is easy to forget that, not so many years ago, finding...
Sep 14, 202112 min read


Review: Guns of the South
By Colin Salt Harry Turtledove's breakout novel, Guns of the South is the story of time travellers altering the American Civil War by...
Sep 10, 20213 min read


'River of Teeth' review
By Alex Wallace Louisiana Representative Robert Broussard’s 1910 proposal to import hippopotamuses to the United States was an odd...
Sep 8, 20212 min read

The Hour of the Wolfe
By Gary Oswald On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a...
Sep 6, 20214 min read


Review: The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal
By Matthew Kresal Space flight, both human and robotic, offers up a rich vein for practitioners of alternate history to mine stories....
Sep 3, 20214 min read


Andrew Harvey and Matthew Kresal nominated for Sidewise Award
Two short stories published by Sea Lion Press have been nominated in the short-form category of the Sidewise Awards, the annual prize for...
Sep 2, 20211 min read

Jared Kavanagh nominated for Sidewise Award
A book published by Sea Lion Press has been nominated in the long-form category of the Sidewise Awards, the annual prize for alternate...
Sep 2, 20211 min read


On 'Axis of Andes' and Adapting Online Alternate History for Publication
By Alexander Wallace D. G. Valdron’s Axis of Andes duology was recently reviewed on this site. It is a work that, for better or for...
Sep 1, 20216 min read

Fiction Friction: Absurd Blurbs and the Riftwar Cycle
By Tom Anderson Regardless of the aphorism that we should not judge a book by its cover, we invariably do. This is not terribly fair on...
Aug 30, 202110 min read


Review: Long Reach by Mike Lunnon-Wood
By Colin Salt Long Reach was a novel that I started off with iffy feelings towards, but which has grown on me as I recognized the rarity...
Aug 27, 20212 min read


'The Eagle and the Bluebird' review
By Alex Wallace Sometimes, good things come in small packages. Such was The Eagle and the Bluebird, a story of only thirty-eight pages by...
Aug 25, 20212 min read


Media Musing Counter Factuals: Power Rangers Turbo and the changeover that wasn't
By Charles EP Murphy By the time of 1997's Power Rangers Turbo, the show had been running for almost four years. Ratings were on the way...
Aug 23, 202112 min read

Alternate Irelands collection - call for stories!
Dear Writers, Sea Lion Press have published quite a few anthologies of short stories. I've bought all of them, I love all of them. I...
Aug 21, 20213 min read


Doctor Who Unbound: He Jests At Scars...
By Matthew Kresal In 1986, Doctor Who came back from an eighteen-month hiatus with an ambitious, season-long story arc. A season that saw...
Aug 20, 20215 min read


'The Tranquillity Alternative' review
By Alexander Wallace After the bold and daring adventures of American space exploration ended, science fiction lovers of all stripes have...
Aug 18, 20212 min read
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