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The world's first publishing label dedicated to the world of counterfactual history (Est. 2015)
pinned post!
Did we say Monday? Early
#Christmas
present! Tom Anderson's
#AlternateHistory
#USpolitics
tale of a delayed
#BarackObama
#presidency
, "The Tenacity of Hope" is out now!
#NewBook
#Obama
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THE TENACITY OF HOPE | Sea Lion Press
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about 2 months ago
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From the archives: Gary Oswald (
@garyoswald.bsky.social
) interviews Jonathan Edelstein,
#author
of
#African
focused
#AlternateHistory
both via SLP and elsewhere.
#AuthorInterview
#Africa
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Interviewing the AH Community: Jonathan Edelstein
Questions from Gary OswaldCounter factual and Alternate History discussion and fiction is a large and healthy online community. Sea Lion Press has always had the aim of providing a platform for Altern...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/interviewing-the-ah-community-jonathan-edelstein
about 14 hours ago
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More
#space
themed
#SaturdayShowcase
of past SLP
#books
as we count down to
#NASA
's
#ArtemisII
mission - the third volume of Andy Cooke's "Endeavour" series, "Beyond the Sunset" sees the last refugees of destroyed
#Earth
make planetfall.
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BEYOND THE SUNSET | Sea Lion Press
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#SidewiseAward
winning
#author
Matthew Kresal (
@kresalwrites.bsky.social
) reviews the
#BigFinish
#AudioDrama
"The First
#Sontarans
", a
#DoctorWho
#originstory
that missed its chance in the 80s.
#BBC
#ColinBaker
#AndrewSmith
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Review: Doctor Who: The First Sontarans
By Matthew Kresal.What would Doctor Who be without its monsters? The Daleks secured the series’ hold with the public in its earliest days while the Cybermen have offered a glimpse of what humanity cou...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/review-doctor-who-the-first-sontarans
3 days ago
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#space
themed
#WhatIf
moments from Andy Cooke as we count down to the
#NASA
#ArtemisII
#moon
mission. Could the US have beat the
#SovietUnion
's
#Sputnik
and had the first
#satellite
in orbit?
#SpaceRace
#ColdWar
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The Launch Box: PoDs of the Space Age - PoD 1: The first satellite is American
By Andy CookeThis series will look at potential Points of Divergence (PoDs) of the Space Age. From the first launches to the present day, there are so many things that only went the way they did by t...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/the-launch-box-pods-of-the-space-age-pod-1-the-first-satellite-is-american
4 days ago
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Remember when your hero was the
#LastOfHisKind
... but then you want a whole
#ExpandedUniverse
of others? Tom Anderson discusses the limitations of this
#trope
, especially focusing on the
#Jedi
in
#StarWars
.
#WritingCommunity
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Fiction Friction: You Are The Last Jedi (Except For All The Others)
By Thomas Anderson.In this article, I will examine a phenomenon of writing in which stated absolutes become an unintended restriction on future storytelling. In many ways, this is a counterpart to an ...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/fiction-friction-you-are-the-last-jedi-except-for-all-the-others
5 days ago
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#Space
themed
#WhatIf
moments as we count down to the
#NASA
#ArtemisII
#moon
mission! Here, something a bit different as we delve into
#popculture
with Ryan Fleming, considering how the vast impact of
#StarTrek
could have changed along with the show.
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These Are the Different Voyages...
By Ryan FlemingIn 1966 US television viewers were first introduced to Star Trek. The voyages of the starship Enterprise on her five-year mission exploring strange new worlds, seeking out new life and ...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/these-are-the-different-voyages
7 days ago
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Another chance to read Gary Oswald's
#authorinterview
with Andy Cooke,
#author
of the Endeavour
#book
series we looked at yesterday as part of our
#space
themed countdown to
#NASA
's
#ArtemisII
#moon
mission.
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Interview: Andy Cooke
Questions from Gary OswaldThis Interview is with Andy Cooke, the first editor of this blog and a prolific writer for both Sea Lion Press and Sgt Frosty Publications.Hello and thanks so much for talkin...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/interview-andy-cooke
8 days ago
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Today's
#SaturdayShowcase
of SLP
#books
continues the
#space
theme as we count down to
#NASA
's
#ArtemisII
#moon
mission. In 'Endeavour' book 2 "Diamond in the Dark", Andy Cooke follows the survivors of Earth's destruction as they try to settle a new planet.
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DIAMOND IN THE DARK | Sea Lion Press
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9 days ago
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New: Gary Oswald (
@garyoswald.bsky.social
) reviews "The Midnight Library" by Matt Haig (
@matthaig.bsky.social
).
#BookReview
#Genre
#MentalHealth
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Review: The Midnight Library
By Gary Oswald.Literary genres are a funny thing. On the one hand they are essentially advertising, 'did you like this book? Well, it's a fantasy book and here are 200 more fantasy books, you'll like ...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/review-the-midnight-library
10 days ago
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#space
themed
#WhatIf
moments from the
#SpaceRace
as we count down to the
#ArtemisII
#moon
mission - Andy Cooke looks at some of the near misses of the
#Gemini
programme that preceded
#Apollo
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The Launchbox, Pod 13: The Near Misses of Gemini (Part 1)
By Andy CookeFollowing the successful completion of the Mercury programme (and NASA managing to sidestep a series of potential disasters), the next step was Gemini. Originally known as “Mercury Mark I...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/the-launchbox-pod-13-the-near-misses-of-gemini-part-1
10 days ago
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#SpaceRace
themed
#WhatIf
moments as we look forward to the
#NASA
#ArtemisII
launch. The
#SovietUnion
famously beat the US for the first man in space with
#YuriGagarin
, but Andy Cooke investigates whether
#AlanShepard
could have been first instead.
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The Launch Box: PoD 2 - Alan Shepard, first man in space
By Andy CookeEisenhower's PrioritiesAfter the furore over the Soviet Union "winning" the race to launch the first satellite, President Eisenhower was rather perplexed. The reaction seemed completely ...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/the-launch-box-pod-2-alan-shepard-first-man-in-space
11 days ago
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Although the
#NASA
#ArtemisII
mission has been delayed slightly, we're still looking at
#WhatIf
moments from
#Space
#history
. Andy Cooke looks at the planned
#SpaceExplorationInitiative
during
#GeorgeHWBush
's presidency.
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Launchbox PoD 7: Losing The Initiative - Sticker Shock kills the Space Exploration Initiative
By Andy Cooke The Space Exploration InitiativeOn July 20th, 1989, President George H W Bush announced the Space Exploration Initiative. After decades of aimlessness, NASA finally had a clear purpose ...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/launchbox-pod-7-losing-the-initiative-sticker-shock-kills-the-space-exploration-initiative
12 days ago
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SLP
#AlternateHistory
#author
Alexander Rooksmoor describes why he wrote "The Blood and the Ghost", a tale of
#AngloSaxon
#England
and the
#Vikings
, which involves inspiration - or otherwise - from
#TheLastKingdom
by
#BernardCornwell
and its TV adaptation.
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Why I Wrote... The Blood and the Ghost
By Alexander Rooksmoor.Quite often I have been inspired to write a short story or even a novel as a result of disliking how a story I have read or seen turns out. The Blood and The Ghost was stimulate...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/why-i-wrote-the-blood-and-the-ghost
13 days ago
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#space
themed
#whatif
moments from the
#SpaceRace
as we count down to
#NASA
's
#ArtemisII
mission. Andy Cooke explores the possibility of
#Korolev
living longer and the impact on the
#Soviet
space programme.
#ColdWar
#Soyuz
#Apollo
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The Launch Box: PoD 3 - Korolev Lives
By Andy CookeAleksandr Vishnevsky was the best surgeon on the staff of Dr Boris Petrovsy, the Minister of Health for the Soviet Union - himself a highly experienced surgeon. It was mid-afternoon on t...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/the-launch-box-pod-3-korolev-lives
14 days ago
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As we count down to
#NASA
's
#ArtemisII
#moon
mission, we're looking at some of SLP's
#space
themed
#fiction
#books
. Yesterday we looked at Tom Anderson's "The Surly Bonds of Earth" and today it's the sequel, "Well Met By Starlight", a tale of
#FirstContact
.
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WELL MET BY STARLIGHT | Sea Lion Press
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15 days ago
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As the
#NASA
#ArtemisII
mission to the
#Moon
approaches, we look at some of SLP's
#space
focused
#fiction
#books
such as "The Surly Bonds of Earth" by Tom Anderson.
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THE SURLY BONDS OF EARTH | Sea Lion Press
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page/the-surly-bonds-of-earth
16 days ago
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A unique
#AlternateHistory
vignette (ultra
#shortfiction
) piece from Charles Cartwright, looking at a
#French
#royalist
#election
scam in a twenty-first century presidential contest...
#WhatIf
#Counterfactual
#France
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Vignette: Republican Royal Racket
By Charles Cartwright.On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a specific theme (changed monthly).The theme for the 91st co...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/vignette-republican-royal-racket
17 days ago
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As we count down to
#NASA
's
#ArtemisII
mission to the
#Moon
, Matthew Kresal (
@kresalwrites.bsky.social
) looks at the ambitious 1970s plan for a crewed
#Apollo
flyby of
#Venus
.
#SpaceHistory
#Space
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Apollo Goes To Venus: The Manned Venus Flyby
By Matthew KresalHalloween 1973.A Saturn V rocket sits on Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. On top of it, three astronauts await lift-off. The journey they will soon be embarking ...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/apollo-goes-to-venus-the-manned-venus-flyby
18 days ago
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Originally published in "Never Was"
#AlternateHistory
#magazine
, Nick Ottens considers the possibility of
#WilliamAndMary
founding a lasting Anglo-Dutch Union.
#Netherlands
#England
#History
#WhatIf
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Anglo-Dutch Union
By Nick OttensThis article was first published over here by our friends at Never Was Magazine and is shared as part of our partnership with Never Was. For more articles like this please check out thei...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/anglo-dutch-union
19 days ago
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#SidewiseAward
winning
#author
Matthew Kresal (
@kresalwrites.bsky.social
) reviews a
#comic
#prequel
to the
#DoctorWho
'
#mirroruniverse
' episode
#Inferno
.
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Review: Inferno: The World Dies Screaming
In May and June 1970, viewers of the BBC’s Doctor Who were treated to an apocalyptic vision of a fascist Britain as Jon Pertwee’s Doctor crossed over in a parallel world. One where Britain was a fasci...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/review-inferno-the-world-dies-screaming
20 days ago
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Tom Anderson looks at the origins and
#history
of
#military
#ranks
and how they could have been different in an
#AlternateHistory
(or
#ScienceFiction
) scenario.
#MilitaryHistory
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Alternate Terminology: Rank and File
By Tom AndersonRegardless of one’s nation, the military are generally a good source of unique and often jargonistic terminology understood only partially by civilian outsiders. Beyond the impenetrable...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/alternate-terminology-rank-and-file
21 days ago
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From the archives: Gary Oswald (
@garyoswald.bsky.social
) interviews
#AlternateHistory
#author
and
#blogger
Olivia Longueville, with a particular focus on her works involving
#AnneBoleyn
and the
#Tudor
period.
#AuthorInterview
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Interviewing the AH Community: Olivia Longueville
Questions from Gary OswaldCounter factual and Alternate History discussion and fiction is a large and healthy online community. Sea Lion Press has always had the aim of providing a platform for Altern...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/interviewing-the-ah-community-olivia-longueville
22 days ago
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Ryan Fleming returns with a new tale from
#DevelopmentHell
-
#JamesCameron
's
#Titanic
was far from the first depiction of the disaster on
#film
, but did you know
#AlfredHitchcock
also considered a production in the 1930s?
#FilmHistory
#MovieHistory
#Hollywood
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Tales From Development Hell: Alfred Hitchcock's Titanic
By Ryan Fleming.Since its 1912 sinking, the Titanic has loomed large in popular culture, including multiple films. When Alfred Hitchcock, another titanic figure, left the United Kingdom for the United...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/tales-from-development-hell-alfred-hitchcock-s-titanic
23 days ago
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Tom Anderson's original article on the unexpected role of
#JeriRyan
and
#StarTrekVoyager
in
#BarackObama
's ascent to the
#presidency
, which inspired his recent
#AlternateHistory
#book
"The Tenacity of Hope".
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From the Final Frontier to the Audacity of Hope: How Star Trek Voyager led to the Obama Presidency
By Tom AndersonFor today’s article in my ‘Chains of Consequences’ series, we won’t be going so many years back in time. Only about a decade separates the start and end of this chain, which makes it al...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/from-the-final-frontier-to-the-audacity-of-hope-how-star-trek-voyager-led-to-the-obama-presidency
25 days ago
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Why does
#TheOrville
by
#SethMacFarlane
feel authentically like a different take on
#StarTrek
and how does it nonetheless create a similar but distinct setting? Tom Anderson explores the
#worldbuilding
of this
#sciencefiction
#television
series.
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Non-Trek Worldbuilding. Part 5: The Orville
By Tom Anderson.It’s been quite a while since I last penned an article in this series, for reasons I will make clear. To briefly recap what ‘Non-Trek Worldbuilding’ is all about, this is an article se...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/non-trek-worldbuilding-part-5-the-orville
26 days ago
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Gary Oswald (
@garyoswald.bsky.social
) considers "Operation Legacy", the destruction of many files related to the
#BritishEmpire
upon
#decolonisation
(in particular the
#MalayanEmergency
) and
#WhatIf
policy had been different.
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What if there was no Operation Legacy?
By Gary Oswald.If you spend any time at all online looking for people talking about the British Empire (and honestly if you're reading this, you probably do), you'll have heard about Operation Legacy ...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/what-if-there-was-no-operation-legacy
26 days ago
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With
#NASA
's
#ArtemisII
#mission
to the
#moon
shortly coming up,
#SidewiseAward
winning
#author
Matthew Kresal (
@kresalwrites.bsky.social
) looks at
#WhatIf
the
#Gemini
spacecraft was used to reach the moon even earlier than
#Apollo
.
#SpaceRace
#ColdWar
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Countdown (1968): Gemini To The Moon
By Matthew KresalThe 1960s Space Race saw the United States and the Soviet Union engaged in an ever-evolving game of one-upmanship. One that saw them leaping from first satellite to the first man to t...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/countdown-1968-gemini-to-the-moon
28 days ago
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From the archives: Gary Oswald (
@garyoswald.bsky.social
) interviews Katy Moran (
@katyjamoran.bsky.social
)
#author
of
#romantic
#historicalfiction
and
#AlternateHistory
#books
.
#AuthorInterview
#Writing
#WritingCommunity
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Interview: Katy Moran
Questions from Gary OswaldThis Interview is with Katy Moran, a writer of Romantic Alternate History. She can be found at her website and on twitter.Hello and thanks so much for talking to us. It’s a p...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/interview-katy-moran
29 days ago
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reposted by
Sea Lion Press
The Alternate Historian
about 1 month ago
I heard Twitter is down so for any refugees from there, check out some of these cool alternate history accounts.
go.bsky.app/CqUujDq
add a skeleton here at some point
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In today's
#SaturdayShowcase
of past SLP
#AlternateHistory
#books
, it's "Decisive Darkness", Paul Hynes' (who penned the new
#WW2
article earlier this week) bleak take on
#ImperialJapan
fighting on after the
#atomic
#bomb
fell on
#Hiroshima
and
#Nagasaki
.
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DECISIVE DARKNESS | Sea Lion Press
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page/decisive-darkness
30 days ago
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Charles EP Murphy (
@cepmurphy.bsky.social
) reviews the recent
#28DaysLater
sequel / spinoff
#28YearsLater
#TheBoneTemple
. What was once a straightforward
#postapocalyptic
setting has become
#AlternateHistory
.
#FilmReview
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Review: 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
By Charles E.P. MurphyIn 2002, the "rage virus" swept through Britain; everyone infected went rabid and turned on the people around them. The world quarantined the nation and abandoned all who hadn't ...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/review-28-years-later-the-bone-temple
about 1 month ago
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Alex Wallace discusses the challenges of
#writing
#AlternateHistory
when it deals with visceral recent events.
#WhatIf
#Counterfactual
#WritingCommunity
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Alternate History when the Capitol is Stormed: Musings on Our Genre and Recent Events
By Alex WallaceI can’t help but have noticed how, since at least Trump was elected, and intensifying with the coming of the pandemic, that the mainstream media and the great social media commentariat ...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/alternate-history-when-the-capitol-is-stormed-musings-on-our-genre-and-recent-events
about 1 month ago
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Accompanying Paul Hynes' new article yesterday about
#French
#WW2
plans, Gary Oswald (
@garyoswald.bsky.social
) discusses some of SLP's many
#AlternateHistory
#books
on the subject of that conflict.
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Which SLP WWII Book should you read?
By Gary OswaldThe answer is, of course, all of them. But if you are the mood for something in particular then follow this handy guide by answering the following questions! This guide contains some spo...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/what-slp-wwii-book-should-you-read
about 1 month ago
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Paul Hynes looks at
#French
planning for
#WW2
and how their battle strategy was ironically upended by the loss of
#NaziGermany
's plans at
#Mechelen
forcing them to change their own strategy for a repeat of
#WW1
.
#WhatIf
#AlternateHistory
#Gamelin
#Maginot
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Dreams From The Dark Years: Third Time Lucky
By Paul Hynes.On the 2nd of May, the Battle of Berlin finally came to an end. The surviving residents of the German capital emerged from the ruins of their homes and attempted to piece their lives bac...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/dreams-from-the-dark-years-third-time-lucky
about 1 month ago
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Gary Oswald (
@garyoswald.bsky.social
) discusses the
#KatRiver
experiment in the
#history
of
#SouthAfrica
, when for a brief moment
#British
#Liberals
sought to defend
#Khoisan
#farmers
from encroachment.
#AfricanHistory
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Africa During the Scramble: The Kat River Experiment
By Gary OswaldOne of the most shocking things about the Scramble of Africa was its speed. In less than 40 years, Africa went from mostly free to mostly run by European Empires. Prior to the 1870s, a l...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/africa-during-the-scramble-the-kat-river-experiment
about 1 month ago
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To go with yesterday's look at the
#AlternateHistory
#ColdWar
#thriller
"Atomic Secrets" by John A. Hopkins (
@jahauthor.bsky.social
) here's another chance to read his "Why I Wrote..." article about the
#writing
process.
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Why I Wrote... Atomic Secrets
By John A. HopkinsI was incredibly excited when Sea Lion Press agreed to publish my first alternate history novel, Atomic Secrets. It is built on a simple premise and an alternate history staple – Bri...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/why-i-wrote-atomic-secrets
about 1 month ago
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In today's
#SaturdayShowcase
of past SLP
#AlternateHistory
books, it's the first David Brook
#thriller
by John A. Hopkins (
@jahauthor.bsky.social
). Intrigue and espionage dominate a different
#ColdWar
with a surviving
#NaziGermany
.
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ATOMIC SECRETS | Sea Lion Press
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page/atomic-secrets
about 1 month ago
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New: Tom Anderson discusses
#worldbuilding
in
#ScienceFiction
and
#Fantasy
, focusing on the principle of 'rule-making vs rule-breaking' made famous by the 'first law' of
#BrandonSanderson
.
#Writing
#Fiction
#WritingCommunity
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Fiction Friction: Rulemaking and Rule Breaking in Sci-Fi
By Thomas Anderson.The fantasy author Brandon Sanderson has become well-known for his advocacy of what he calls “Sanderson’s First Law (of Magic)”; that is, that an author's ability to solve conflict ...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/fiction-friction-rulemaking-and-rule-breaking-in-sci-fi
about 1 month ago
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In an article originally produced for "This Day in
#AlternateHistory
", Jeff Provine asks the question
#WhatIf
the career of
#JuliusCaesar
had been cut short by an encounter with
#pirates
?
#RomanEmpire
#Caesar
#ClassicalHistory
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What if Julius Caesar was slain by Pirates?
By Jeff ProvineThis article was originally posed on This Day in Alternate History and the original article can be found there. Please check that blog for more like this.When Sulla died in 78 bc, Juliu...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/julius-caesar-slain-by-pirates
about 1 month ago
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Andy Cooke looks at the near misses of
#NASA
's first
#Gemini
missions in 1964.
#SpaceRace
#SpaceHistory
#ColdWar
#Space
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The Launchbox, Pod 13: The Near Misses of Gemini (Part 1)
By Andy CookeFollowing the successful completion of the Mercury programme (and NASA managing to sidestep a series of potential disasters), the next step was Gemini. Originally known as “Mercury Mark I...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/the-launchbox-pod-13-the-near-misses-of-gemini-part-1
about 1 month ago
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Gary Oswald (
@garyoswald.bsky.social
) discusses how the
#AlternateHistory
community's focus on plausibility can sometimes lead us to miss the potential of an unlikely but thrilling
#WhatIf
plot.
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Cocaine Bear and the Joy of an Unlikely Scenario
By Gary Oswald.Being enthusiasts of alternate history, everyone reading this is probably able to name an iconic piece of AH fiction in most formats. A book, a comic, a tv show, a video game etc. But i...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/cocaine-bear-and-the-joy-of-an-unlikely-scenario
about 1 month ago
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#AlternateHistory
#writing
, like
#ScienceFiction
, is often about asking one 'big driving
#question
'. Alex Wallace discusses the challenge of coming up with AH questions more interesting than, say,
#WhatIf
you-know-who won
#WW2
.
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On Asking Good Alternate History Questions
By Alex WallaceIn my capacity as the administrator of the Alternate History Online (AHO) Facebook group, I have seen many new alternate historians cut their teeth on speculating. More often than not, ...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/on-asking-good-alternate-history-questions
about 1 month ago
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From the archives: Gary Oswald (
@garyoswald.bsky.social
) interviews SLP founder, editor and
#author
Tom Black (
@tomblack.uk
), also known for his work on
#interactive
#AlternateHistory
and
#ScienceFiction
#theatre
such as
#BridgeCommand
.
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Interview: Tom Black
Questions from Gary OswaldToday is the 7th Birthday of Sea Lion Press so to celebrate that I talked to Tom Black, SLP's Managing Director. He can be found either here or on twitter.Hello Tom, so first...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/interview-tom-black
about 1 month ago
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#SidewiseAward
winning
#author
Matthew Kresal (
@kresalwrites.bsky.social
) discusses why he wrote "Our Man on the Hill" -
#WhatIf
arch-red-baiter
#JoeMcCarthy
had secretly been a
#Communist
agent himself?
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Why I Wrote... Our Man On The Hill
By Matthew Kresal.“Where do your ideas come from?”That’s almost an inevitable question one receives after a stranger finds out you’re a published author. One that is almost always in the wake of, “Wha...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/why-i-wrote-our-man-on-the-hill
about 1 month ago
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Let's begin our
#SaturdayShowcase
for 2026 of past SLP
#AlternateHistory
#books
with one of the few that started it all - Ed Thomas' "Fight and Be Right".
#WhatIf
#WinstonChurchill
's father had become
#PrimeMinister
?
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FIGHT AND BE RIGHT | Sea Lion Press
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page/fight-and-be-right
about 1 month ago
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about 2 months ago
Wow - it's almost 2026! Thanks again to
@sealionpress.co.uk
for publishing both
#FunnyMoney
and
#AtomicSecrets
- both still available at 25% off at
www.smashwords.com/profile/view...
until Jan 1st. All being well, the third David Brook novel will appear in 2026.
#AlternateHistory
#writersky
#fiction
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FUNNY MONEY | Sea Lion Press
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page/funny-money
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A reminder of SLP's recent
#AlternateHistory
#book
releases as we close out 2025. Looking forward to more in 2026!
#HappyNewYear
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This Year's Releases
This year's seen the release of two novels from Sea Lion Press: a Cold War spy thriller in a world with a Nazi detente, and a political history in a world where Obama's time in office is delayed by tw...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/this-year-s-releases
about 2 months ago
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Early
#HappyNewYear
from all at SLP and we close out the year with a reminder that the new year isn't 2026 in every culture - indeed in many this isn't the
#newyear
at all. For us, though, we will see you in 2026!
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Consequences: Calendar Club and Happy New Year
By Tom Anderson“Did you hear about the man who stole a calendar? He got twelve months.”– old Christmas cracker joke Since the dawn of human civilisation, the problem of telling time has been a puzzl...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/consequences-calendar-club-and-happy-new-year
about 2 months ago
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Check out this
#AlternateHistory
#vignette
(ultra
#shortstory
) by Charles EP Murphy (
@cepmurphy.bsky.social
) which is about
#wrestling
and nothing else and definitely not
#politics
.
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Vignette: Work Means Work
By Charles EP Murphy.On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a specific theme (changed monthly).The theme for the 86th con...
https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/vignette-work-means-work
about 2 months ago
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