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Mar 18, 202412 min read
Alternate Technology: A Nuke By Any Other Name
By Tom Anderson If they named it after the place, this could be a Los Alamos, a Hiroshima, or a Bikini. Picture courtesy Wikimedia...


Mar 15, 20248 min read
The Way Things Were. Maybe.
By David Flin He's not happy. In some circles, it is considered fair game to sneer at historical re-enactors as plastic imitations, as...


Mar 13, 20243 min read
The Alternate Lavender Island.
Marooned Guest: Arturo Serrano Today, our marooned guest on Lavender Island is Arturo Serrano, author of the AH novel To Climates Unknown...


Mar 11, 202410 min read
Vignette: Queen of the Windsor Castle
By A Snow Marine. The author. Picture courtesy Sergeant Frosty Publications. In a previous article , I looked at Namesakes, and the...

Mar 9, 20244 min read
Monthly Vignette: Resolving a Schism
By Paul Leone SLP runs a monthly vignette challenge, the latest of which is on the subject off Lawman and can be found Here. Not all...


Mar 8, 20246 min read
The Alternate Lavender Island: Brent Harris
Marooned Guest: Brent Harris. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. The guest for this exercise in marooning is an expert in...


Mar 6, 20242 min read
The Ameriyak That Never Was
By Colin Salt The Yak-40. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Soviet airliners have an understandably poor reputation and record. It’s...


Mar 4, 202410 min read
Fiction Friction: Beloved Characters That Nearly Weren't
By Tom Anderson An unexpected character, or Brother and Back Again. Picture courtesy One Wiki to Rule Them All. Many, perhaps most,...

Mar 2, 20241 min read
CROWDFUND CAMPAIGN: Worlds That Could Have Been, an AH encyclopaedia
Sea Lion Press is proud to be helping out with a very exciting project: a dual-language French-English 'encyclopaedia' of AH worlds....


Mar 1, 20246 min read
Alternate Namesakes
By No-One Important And, once you have read the article, you'll know the game and can come up with an explanation connecting these two...


Feb 28, 202413 min read
Sport and Politics: The Olympic Games, Part 6
By Pete Usher. Ben Johnson. From national hero to national disgrace with one drug test. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Why, Ben?...


Feb 26, 202412 min read
Non-Trek Worldbuilding. Part 3: Early Star Wars.
By Tom Anderson. Filmed in Death Valley, so I'm told. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. This topic may seem like a peculiar choice for...


Feb 23, 20249 min read
John le Carré, a Trade Secret. Part 3.
By Peter Randall This is where the magic happens now. MI6 headquarters. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Parts 1 and 2 of this series...


Feb 21, 20249 min read
The Artemis Jumped Over the Moon
By Matthew Kresal Artemis 8 using Dragon. Picture courtesy The Mars Society. Artemis 8 At Christmas 1968, NASA engaged in one of the...


Feb 19, 20246 min read
The Alternate Lavender Island: Matt Mitrovich
Marooned Guest: Matt Mitrovich When you think of people it’s always good to be nice to, a judge comes high up on the list. As do lawyers...


Feb 16, 202417 min read
Prequel Problems: Deny Thy Father (Star Trek)
By Tom Anderson Doesn't he look strange without the beard? Young Will Riker. Picture courtesy Star Trek Wiki. In my dedicated Star Trek...


Feb 14, 20247 min read
John le Carré, a Trade Secret. Part 2
By Peter Randall David Cornwell (John le Carré) when he moved from being a spook to writing about them. Picture courtesy Spiked. Part 1...


Feb 12, 20241 min read
NEW PAPERBACK: Atomic Secrets
John A. Hopkins, one of SLP's breakout authors of 2023, goes into print with the first David Brook novel, Atomic Secrets: 1948. The...


Feb 12, 20248 min read
The Alternate Lavender Island: Matthew Kresal
Marooned guest: Matthew Kresal. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. This time, we have marooned on Lavender Island or very own expert on...


Feb 9, 202414 min read
An Alternate History of Horror XXI: Jump Scare
By Ryan Fleming. Nosferatu, 1922. One of the earliest classics of the genre. Picture courtesy Wikimedia Commons. It seems appropriate for...
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