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Paul Leone is back and #writing about yet another #genre TV show we all remember, right? Well no, because this one never aired...not in our #timeline anyway. Check out 'Night Mares', occult investigators from 19th century #SanFrancisco. #AlternateHistory www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/night-m...

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Jeff Provine looks at alternative possibilities for the #PanamaCanal - from the alternative proposal to cut a #canal through #Nicaragua to the canal being completed by #France or #Britain. #AlternateHistory #Counterfactual #WhatIf #Panama www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/crossin...

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Gary Oswald interviews the veteran #AlternateHistory #author and pioneer of online AH, Dale Cozort. #Counterfactual #WhatIf #AuthorInterview #WritingCommunity www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/intervi...

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Read this new #AlternateHistory #vignette ( #shortstory ) by Paul Hynes in which we see the aftermath of #NevilleChamberlain calling an #election over #Munich in 1938, through the eyes of #ClementAttlee. #UKpolitics #WhatIf #WW2 www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/vignett...

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Colin Salt explores a 1990s analysis by CJ Dick about how the #RedArmy might have developed in a #timeline where the #ColdWar never ended. #SovietUnion #SovietArmy #WW3 #AlternateHistry #MilitaryHistory #Counterfactual #WhatIf www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/the-21s...

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Paul Hynes looks at the #WhatIf possibilities of #Japan getting involving in #NaziGermany 's invasion of the #SovietUnion, #OperationBarbarossa, in #WW2. #Counterfactual #AlternateHistory www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/when-th...

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Yesterday Ryan Fleming looked at yet another failed attempt to adapt #Dune before #DavidLynch 's version - but did you know without Lynch's Dune, we wouldn't have had a 1990s #RealTimeStrategy #PCGame boom? Tom Anderson investigates. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/the-imp...

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Ryan Fleming ( @ryanafwrites.bsky.social ) returns with a brand-new article on Tales from #DevelopmentHell - #RidleyScott 's never-made adaptation of #Dune. #FrankHerbert #DavidLynch #DenisVilleneuve #FilmHistory #WhatIf #ScienceFiction www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/tales-f...

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Wm. Garrett Cothran looks at a fascinating example of #forensics in #criminalinvestigation in #AncientRome. #RomanEmpire #RomanHistory #ForensicHistory #History www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/csi-rom...

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Charles EP Murphy ( @cepmurphy.bsky.social ) warns of tempting fate when it comes to book titles in his #bookreview of Duncan Brack and Iain Dale's " #PrimeMinister Boris And Other Things That Never Happened". #UKPolitics #BorisJohnson #AlternateHistory #WhatIf www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/prime-m...

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OI, YOU! Do YOU like #alternatehistory essays & fiction? You should do, it's awesome! And so far this month, every Tues & Fri, the @sealionpress.co.uk blog's run: 1) @jahauthor.bsky.social discussing the background to the first of his spies-vs-Nazis thrillers: www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/why-i-w...

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With #StarTrek #StrangeNewWorlds shortly to return to our screen, Ryan Fleming considers #WhatIf the original pilot with #CaptainPike, #TheCage, had been picked up without a #retool back in the 1960s. #AlternateHistory #TVHistory #Counterfactual www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/these-a...

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Colin Salt looks at two #nuclear weapons programmes in #Africa, by #apartheid #SouthAfrica and #Gaddafi 's #Libya. #NuclearWeapons #NuclearProliferation #Atomic #AfricanHistory www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/alterna...

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Andy Cooke looks at the #SpaceRace and considers if the first artificial #satellite could have been #American rather than #Soviet. #Sputnik #Vanguard #ColdWar #NASA #SpaceHistory #WhatIf #AlternateHistory www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/the-lau...

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Colin Salt discusses the topic of #WW3 in #fiction, considering the various time periods available in the #ColdWar for such a #story to be set. #MilitaryFiction #NuclearWar #Technothriller #WritingCommunity www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/boom-bo...

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Gary Oswald ( @garyoswald.bsky.social ) continues his series on the #history of the #Caribbean in the #ColdWar, this time looking at #JuanBosch and the #DominicanRepublic. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/caribbe...

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Gary Oswald interviews Andy Cooke, #author of "The Fourth Lectern" series, the #Endeavour #postapocalyptic #sciencefiction series and the #Shadowlands #PortalFiction #childrensfiction series among others. #AuthorInterview www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/intervi...

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Tom Anderson discusses the #history of the #gramophone, #vinyl and the fight for the right to use the #Nipper #HisMastersVoice logo by #HMV and #RCA. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/alterna...

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#SidewiseAward winning #author Matthew Kresal ( @kresalwrites.bsky.social ) reviews the #BigFinish #DoctorWho #AudioDrama "Operation Werewolf", starring #PatrickTroughton 's son Michael as the Second Doctor. #BBC #WW2 www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/review-...

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Wm. Garrett Cothran discusses the classic #LockedRoomMystery in #fiction. A century on from the #GoldenAge of #CrimeFiction, what is the secret to their enduring popularity? #LockedRoom #WritingCommunity www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/locked-...

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Ryan Fleming (@ryanafwrites.bsky.social) discusses another tale from #DevelopmentHell - the never-made #Superman #film " #SupermanLives" starring #NicolasCage as the #ManOfSteel. #DCComics #FilmHistory www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/tales-f...

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Tom Anderson discusses that strange period in the 2000s when #superheroes in #film and #television were clearly a played-out trope and only parodies or deconstructions were allowed...then #Marvel's MCU happened. #Comics #ComicHistory www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/fiction...

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Andy Cooke discusses five times crewed #spaceflight came too close to #disaster. #AlternateHistory #Counterfactual #WhatIf #SpaceRace #ColdWar #NASA www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/that-wa...

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#SidewiseAward winning #author Matthew Kresal ( @kresalwrites.bsky.social ) discusses a dramatic cancelled #NASA #Apollo plan for a manned flyby of another planet - #Venus. #Space #SpaceHistory #AlternateHistory #WhatIf www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/apollo-...

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I heard you liked comics and #alternatehistory so I wrote 17 essays of comics history alternate history - and for another day, it's half price at #smashwords ! www.smashwords.com/books/view/1...

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Gary Oswald (garyoswald.bsky.social) reviews "#LoneStar Reloaded" by Drew McGunn, an #AlternateHistory tale using a similar gimmick to #QuantumLeap, where a modern veteran wakes up in #TheAlamo shortly before its doomed defence. #Texas #BookReview #WhatIf www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/review-...

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Originally posted by @alternatehistorian.bsky.social and reproduced with permission: Allen W. McDonnell studies a #WhatIf involving #Canada and #RailHistory : what if the #PacificGreatEasternRailway had been rescued? #AlternateHistory #Railway #Railroad www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/what-if...

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NEW RELEASE: The sequel to John A. Hopkins' ( @jahauthor.bsky.social ) "#Atomic Secrets", "Funny Money", sees David Brook investigating a counterfeiting plot in a spy #thriller set in a world where #NaziGermany survived #WW2. #AlternateHistory #WhatIf #NewBook www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/now-on-...

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Andy Cooke looks at the #history and #etymology of #militaryranks and other terminology. #MilitaryHistory #AlternateHistory #Counterfactual #WhatIf www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/wait-wh...

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Charles P Murphy ( @cepmurphy.bsky.social ) discusses the use of #AlternateHistory in the #DCComics #Elseworlds scenario "The Nail", which imagines a version of that setting where #Superman did not become a #superhero. #Counterfactual #WhatIf www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/jla-the...

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New SLP #author John A. Hopkins discusses why he wrote his debut #AlternateHistory #novel, "#Atomic Secrets". #NewBooks #ColdWar #WhatIf #Counterfactual #Technothriller #Thriller #Writing #WritingCommunity www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/why-i-w...

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Tom Anderson looks at chains of #consequences in #history, surprisingly, a series of #author inspirations means the #HarryPotter books wouldn't exist without an economic downturn in the 1830s USA. #PanicOf1837 #ChildrensLiterature #AgathaChristie www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/harry-p...

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IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: It's the "Read an #Ebook Week" sale on #Smashwords which means many SLP #AlternateHistory #novels and #anthologies are available at a reduced price! Read more below! #SmashwordsSale #ReadAnEbookWeek www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/sea-lio...

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The second part on Alex Richards' extensive guide on how to create an #AlternateHistory #map. #Cartography #Mapmaking #Counterfactual #WhatIf www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/so-you-...

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A new #alternatehistory #vignette (ultra #shortstory) for Friday, as Roshita Narasimhan tells the tale of a murder at the theatre in an alternate Asian superpower - can the eccentric European detective Marcel Delcroix find the killer? www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/vignett...

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David Hoggard reviews the 2003 #film #adaptation of the 1999 #TimeTravel #novel #Timeline by #MichaelCrichton. #AlternateHistory #Counterfactual #WhatIf #FilmReview www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/a-revie...

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Zachary Lynn discusses a lesser-known (in the west) #war but one which had significant influence on asymmetric combat tactics - the #ChadianLibyanWar of 1978-87. #Africa #Libya #Chad #AfricanHistory #Technical www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/forgott...

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Colin Salt discusses the #AlternateHistory #WhatIf possibilities of different #terminology for the #sport of #AmericanFootball. #NFL #Counterfactual www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/the-alt...

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Ryan Fleming ( @ryanafwrites.bsky.social ) considers the vast impact on #popculture as we know it if #Jaws, the original #Hollywood #blockbuster #film, had never been made. #AlternateHistory #Counterfactual #WhatIf #FilmHistory www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/popular...

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Gary Oswald (@garyoswald.bsky.social) interviews Alex Wallace (@spanishspy.bsky.social) who, since this interview, has become a #HugoAward winner! #AlternateHistory #Counterfactual #WhatIf #AuthorInterview #Author www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/intervi...

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Colin Salt discusses #military formations in the #FogOfWar, with the specific example of #Iraqi forces in the first #GulfWar. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/formati...

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Jared Kavanagh of #LandsOfRedAndGold fame reviews "The Plot Against America", an unusual foray into #AlternateHistory by the late #PhilipRoth. #Counterfactual #WhatIf #BookReview #Lindbergh www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/review-...

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In an article originally published as part of 'Never Was' magazine, Nick Ottens considers different proposals for the #partition of #Germany at the end of #WW2. #AlternateHistory #Counterfactual #WhatIf www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/how-ger...

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From the archives: Adam Selby-Martin (@skinny87.bsky.social) reviews "Altered Europa" by Martinus Publishing, an #AlternateHistory collection which includes the #SidewiseAward nominated story "N'Oublions Jamais" by Bruno Lombardi and Tom Anderson (later SLP). www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/review-...

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Ryan Fleming's ( @ryanafwrites.bsky.social ) "Tales from #DevelopmentHell" article series returns with the attempts to adapt the 1960s #satirical #Canadian #novel "The Incomparable #Atuk" by #MordecaiRichler of #JacobTwoTwo fame. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/tales-f...

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Thank you for the shout-out!

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Why are #military #ranks so familiar in most #AlternateHistory, #ScienceFiction and #Fantasy scenarios? Tom Anderson explores how, in fact, a few small historical happenstances could have made our armed forces' rank structure and terminology very different. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/alterna...

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