Tom Anderson looks at the unlikely set of circumstances that led to #KennethGrahame writing #TheWindInTheWillows and its cultural impact on other writers. #ChildrensFiction #Writing #WritingCommunity #Disney #Discworld www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/consequ...

Our latest #SerialSunday, "The Galton #Horror" by Charles EP Murphy ( @cepmurphy.bsky.social ) continues with part 2. #Serial #ScienceFiction #Writing #WritingCommunity www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/serial-...

You know those books of so-called #WhatIf #AlternateHistory essays where stuffy historians decide actually, nothing would have changed in the long run? Read @cepmurphy.bsky.social 's ingenious parody written from another #timeline 's #WW2 perspective... www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...

New: Gary Oswald ( @garyoswald.bsky.social ) looks at the #syncretic #religion of #Antonianism which arose in the #Congo or #Kongo Empire in the 18th century. #AfricanHistory #Angola #Catholicism www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/alterna...

Tom Anderson's #PrequelProblems series looks at #IlGiovaneMontalbano ( #YoungMontalbano ), the #prequel to the highly successful #IlCommissarioMontalbano ( #InspectorMontalbano ) Italian TV series. #Montalbano #Sicily #Sicilia #Camilleri www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/prequel...

Tyler Parsons looks at the #Taiping #rebellion against the #QingDynasty and its relations with Western powers, including the #WhatIf moments of #History. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/late-qi...

Ryan Fleming ( @ryanafwrites.bsky.social ) returns with another tale from #DevelopmentHell, this featuring #Tupac 's acting career. Did you know he could have been #MaceWindu instead of #SamuelLJackson? #WhatIf #FilmHistory #AlternateHistory www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/tales-f...

Alex Wallace reviews #RuledBritannia by #HarryTurtledove, an #AlternateHistory #novel in which the #SpanishArmada successfully conquered #England in 1588, starring #WilliamShakespeare and #LopeDeVega. #WhatIf #BookReview www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/ruled-b...

A new #SerialSunday, this one by @cepmurphy.bsky.social - #AlternateHistory #horror at the dawn of #TonyBlair and #NewLabour in 1997. #Fiction #WritingCommunity www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/serial-...

In today's #SaturdayShowcase of past SLP #AlternateHistory #books, it's Ryan Fleming's ( @ryanafwrites.bsky.social ) "Reid in Braid" - a lost #WW1 leads to a #Communist #Scotland... www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...

Paul Hynes returns with a new #WW2 #WhatIf series looking at the many ways in which the #FallOfFrance could have gone differently. #BattleOfFrance #FallGelb #CharlesDeGaulle #BatailleDeFrance www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/dreams-...

Ryan Fleming ( @ryanafwrites.bsky.social ) looks at a tale from #DevelopmentHell, the planned return of the #Superman #film franchise in the 1990s with the never-made #SupermanLives. #DCComics #FilmHistory www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/tales-f...

#Comics historian Charles EP Murphy ( @cepmurphy.bsky.social ) looks at the iconic #JudgeDredd from #2000AD and how his first adventures could've been very different. #WhatIf #ComicsHistory #BritishComics www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/comics-...

Tom Anderson returns to look at examples of #worldbuilding in #television #sciencefiction shows that aren't #StarTrek, with one that many saw as more authentic Trek than the Trek itself coming out at the time - #TheOrville. #SethMacfarlane #SciFi #Orville www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/non-tre...

What chain of historical consequences links #WW2, #PaddingtonBear and #TopGear? Tom Anderson investigates. #History #UKHistory #Paddington www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/chains-...

The fourth and final part of our latest #SerialSunday, "The Return of #KingArthur" by David Flin, concludes the #story. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/serial-...

Today's #SaturdayShowcase of past SLP #AlternateHistory #books: the #USCivilWar is over and the South has won. But what happens to #BleedingKansas? Mark Ciccone tells the tale of of an ordinary cavalryman who just wants to go home. #Kansas #CivilWar www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...

Some recent #AfricanHistory from David Love, exploring the death of #SamoraMachel and the consequences it had for #SouthAfrica , #Mozambique and #Zimbabwe, including the later career of #NelsonMandela. #Africa #Frelimo www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/the-dea...

Paul Hynes explores the possibility of #Japan becoming involved in #NaziGermany 's 1941 #invasion of the #SovietUnion, #OperationBarbarossa. #WW2 #USSR #ImperialJapan #AlternateHistory #WhatIf www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/when-th...

Colin Salt discusses the role - or absence - of #nuclearweapons in the #technothriller #genre in #WW3 scenarios. #MilitaryFiction #TomClancy www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/boom-bo...

#SidewiseAward winning #author Matthew Kresal ( @kresalwrites.bsky.social ) reviews the #BigFinish #audiodrama adaptation of a lost #DoctorWho script from 1965, "The Dark Planet". www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/review-...

#Google is omnipresent these days, but just where does the name come from? Tom Anderson investigates. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/chains-...

Our #SerialSunday continues with Part 3 of David Flin's "The Return of #KingArthur" - #WhatIf every legendary culture hero destined to return in time of need did so at the same time? www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/serial-...

In today's #SaturdayShowcase of SLP #books, it's "The Surly Bonds of Earth", Tom Anderson's hybrid #ScienceFiction - #AlternateHistory epic which continues in "Well Met By Starlight". www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...

In the 8th and final part of his #Caribbean #ColdWar series, Gary Oswald ( @garyoswald.bsky.social ) finally comes to the part everyone knows about: #Cuba and #FIdelCastro. #CaribbeanHistory #CubanRevolution www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/caribbe...

It's a #cliche of the #genre when people aren't willing to do their #research - Wm. Garret Cothran explores the peculiarity of the #SpaceFillingEmpire in #AlternateHistory #Fiction. #Writing #WritingCommunity www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/space-f...

Tom Anderson looks at the #history of the #gramophone or #recordplayer, including the strange rules around where the #HisMastersVoice Nipper dog logo can be used in the world. #Edison #Victor #RCA #HMV #Victrola #Shellac #LP #Vinyl www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/alterna...

Alexander Rooksmoor discusses why he wrote "In the Absence of Powder", a hypothetical look at a #BattleOfWaterloo in a world without #gunpowder where the #longbow still rules the roost. #AlternateHistory #Writing #WritingCommunity #WhatIf #Napoleon www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/why-i-w...

Colin Salt examines the emergence and #history of the #technothriller #genre in the 20th century. #ColdWar #TomClancy #MilitaryFiction #Writing #WritingCommunity www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/boom-bo...

Our #SerialSunday continues with the second part of "The Return of #KingArthur" by David Flin. #AlternateHistory #Counterfactual #WhatIf #Serial #Fiction #Writing www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/serial-...

In today's #SaturdayShowcase of SLP #AlternateHistory #books, it's Jared Kavanagh's #SidewiseAward nominated "Walking Through Dreams", in which #indigenous #Australians have the crops to found #urbanised #civilisations before #firstcontact with #Europeans. www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...

Read for free this #AlternateHistory #vignette (ultra #shortstory) by James Hall here on the vignette contest theme of "The Fool". We have monthly contests that sometimes result in themed #anthologies, join the forum to participate! #Writing #WritingCommunity www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/vignett...

#SidewiseAward winning #author Matthew Kresal ( @kresalwrites.bsky.social ) looks at #NASA 's little-known post- #Apollo plan to send #astronauts to - or at least past - #Venus. #SpaceRace www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/apollo-...

#AlternateHistory is often concerned with #politics and #war, but can you still write a good #WhatIf story in times of #peace? Gary Oswald ( @garyoswald.bsky.social ) investigates. #Counterfactual #Writing #WritingCommunity www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/alterna...

"Behind every great #seventies #movie is a terrible seventies #book." Colin Salt looks at the differences between the book and film of the world-changing #blockbuster, #Jaws. #FilmHistory #Adaptation www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/not-so-...

It's a #BankHoliday in #England and #Wales so why not take the opportunity to check out SLP's range of #AlternateHistory #books, many of which involve the #history of those countries? (Tenuous link!) www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/a-compl...

A new #SerialSunday at the SLP magazine blog: read for free the first part of "The Return of #KingArthur" by David Flin. #WhatIf ALL heroes destined to return in the hour of need did...at the same time? #Fiction #Story #Arthurian www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/serial-...

In today's #SaturdayShowcase of past SLP #AlternateHistory #books: the 1948 election in #SouthAfrica saw the victory of the #NationalParty, dooming the country to decades of #apartheid rule. But #WhatIf the NP lost? Our Free and Happy Land" by Charlton Cussans. www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...

Gary Oswald ( @garyoswald.bsky.social ) discusses the #history of #British #wrestling on TV and in particular the 2010s fight between #ITV and #VinceMcMahon 's #WWE for rights. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/itv-ver...

David Hoggard's article series on lesser-known #political #ideology strands looks at #Eurocommunism , in particular its role in the #politics of #France and #Italy in the 2nd half of the 20th century. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/other-i...

Ryan Fleming ( @ryanafwrites.bsky.social ) considers the impact on #popculture, including #Hollywood and #VideoGames, if #StevenSpielberg 's #ET had never been made. #WhatIf #FilmHistory #ScienceFiction #TheEighties #AlternateHistory www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/popular...

In the first part of a new series, Paul Hynes discusses #France 's #ThirdRepublic from 1870 to 1940: next time, the #WhatIf moments. #FrenchHistory #HistoireFrancais #TroisiemeRepublique #BelleEpoque #DreyfusAffair #Revanchism www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/dreams-...

Congratulations to the #SidewiseAward winners! SLP #author Mark Ciccone was nominated for the second year running, you can see some links to his SLP #AlternateHistory works here from his previous nomination: www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/mark-ci...

Andy Cooke discusses some #WhatIf moments of #NASA 's #Gemini programme, focusing on the missions Gemini 8 and 9 and the infamous ' #spacewalk from hell'. #SpaceRace #SpaceHistory #AlternateHistory www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/the-lau...

The final part of Paul Leone's ( @paulleone.bsky.social ) #story " #Murder in #Hackney " is now available as part of our #SundaySerial series on the SLP #AlternateHistory magazine blog! www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/serial-...

Tom Anderson discusses the #Chicago #WorldsFair of 1893, at which a surprising number of things from our modern world were first introduced - #brownies, #Wrigleys chewing gum, the #FerrisWheel and more. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/chains-of-consequence-chicago-1893-fountain-of-modernity

Are you sick of hearing about #AI yet? Well, spare a thought for those who spent years getting the film #AIArtificialIntelligence out of #DevelopmentHell, as Ryan Fleming ( @ryanafwrites.bsky.social ) uncovers. #FilmHistory #StanleyKubrick #StephenSpielberg www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/tales-f...

Online #AlternateHistory veteran and #writer Dale Cozort looks at the #WhatIf possibility of a #war between #ImperialJapan and the #SovietUnion in 1934. #Counterfactual #WW2 www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/soviet-...

Gary Oswald ( @garyoswald.bsky.social ) asks a simple question with a complex answer: why write #AlternateHistory ? The ins and outs of AH as a #literary device and tool of historical analysis are discussed. #Writing #Counterfactual #WhatIf www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/why-wri...

Gary Oswald ( @garyoswald.bsky.social ) discusses the groundbreaking #AlternateHistory exhibition at the #DeutschesHistorichesMuseum ( @dhmberlin.bsky.social ) entitled "Roads Not Taken", looking at #WhatIf moments in #German #History. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/roads-n...