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The world's first publishing label dedicated to the world of counterfactual history (Est. 2015)
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Winter Sale!
Smashwords is having a sale for the rest of the month and dozens of Sea Lion Press books have 25% off, just in time for Christmas! Whatever your favourite period of history and preferred tone for AH t...
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The #Smashwords #Christmas #sale is NOW ON! Please check out all the dozens of SLP #AlternateHistory #novels #discounted! #Books #BookOffer #WhatIf #Counterfactual #Writing #WritingCommunity www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/winter-...
New: Gary Oswald's ( @garyoswald.bsky.social ) articles on #Caribbean #History continues with this look at the #Barbary #Corsairs and the #WhatIf possibility of a #Muslim #NewWorld #colony from #Morocco or others. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/caribbe...
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December 9, 2025 at 9:25 AM
New: Gary Oswald's ( @garyoswald.bsky.social ) articles on #Caribbean #History continues with this look at the #Barbary #Corsairs and the #WhatIf possibility of a #Muslim #NewWorld #colony from #Morocco or others. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/caribbe...
The #Smashwords #Christmas #sale is NOW ON! Please check out all the dozens of SLP #AlternateHistory #novels #discounted! #Books #BookOffer #WhatIf #Counterfactual #Writing #WritingCommunity www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/winter-...
Winter Sale!
Smashwords is having a sale for the rest of the month and dozens of Sea Lion Press books have 25% off, just in time for Christmas! Whatever your favourite period of history and preferred tone for AH t...
www.sealionpress.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 10:24 AM
The #Smashwords #Christmas #sale is NOW ON! Please check out all the dozens of SLP #AlternateHistory #novels #discounted! #Books #BookOffer #WhatIf #Counterfactual #Writing #WritingCommunity www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/winter-...
Gary Oswald ( @garyoswald.bsky.social ) interviews Alexander Rooksmoor, #AlternateHistory #author of yesterday's showcased #WhatIf #book, "Against the Devil's Men", among others. #AuthorInterview #Counterfactual www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/intervi...
Interviewing the AH Community: Alexander Rooksmoor
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...
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December 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Gary Oswald ( @garyoswald.bsky.social ) interviews Alexander Rooksmoor, #AlternateHistory #author of yesterday's showcased #WhatIf #book, "Against the Devil's Men", among others. #AuthorInterview #Counterfactual www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/intervi...
In today's #SaturdayShowcase of past SLP #AlternateHistory #books, it's Alexander Rooksmoor's "Against the Devil's Men" - #WhatIf the #Mongol invasions had not turned back from western #Europe but had continued into #Italy? www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...
AGAINST THE DEVIL'S MEN | Sea Lion Press
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December 6, 2025 at 10:57 AM
In today's #SaturdayShowcase of past SLP #AlternateHistory #books, it's Alexander Rooksmoor's "Against the Devil's Men" - #WhatIf the #Mongol invasions had not turned back from western #Europe but had continued into #Italy? www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...
#SidewiseAward winning #author Matthew Kresal ( @kresalwrites.bsky.social ) returns with another example of a cancelled #DoctorWho story, in this case from #ColinBaker 's never-produced second series, now a #BigFinish #audiodrama: "The Hollows of Time". www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/review-...
Review: Doctor Who: The Hollows of Time
By Matthew Kresal.On the 27th of February 1985, Doctor Who was officially and quite publicly put on hiatus. The two years that followed were among the most dramatic in the series history, with an enti...
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December 5, 2025 at 10:24 AM
#SidewiseAward winning #author Matthew Kresal ( @kresalwrites.bsky.social ) returns with another example of a cancelled #DoctorWho story, in this case from #ColinBaker 's never-produced second series, now a #BigFinish #audiodrama: "The Hollows of Time". www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/review-...
Currently topical with the release of the latest #KnivesOut #film, Wm. Garrett Cothran discusses our enduring fascination with the #LockedRoom #MurderMystery. #DetectiveFiction #Writing #WritingCommunity www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/locked-...
Locked Room Crimes
By Wm. Garret CothranCrime is fun. Some will disagree but, in all honesty, people love crime. White collar or blue collar. Serial killers or a guy who snapped. Bank robbers. Bandits. Mafia dons and Ya...
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December 4, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Currently topical with the release of the latest #KnivesOut #film, Wm. Garrett Cothran discusses our enduring fascination with the #LockedRoom #MurderMystery. #DetectiveFiction #Writing #WritingCommunity www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/locked-...
Originally published in "Never Was" magazine, Nick Ottens looks at the #WhatIf moments of the #DutchRevolt and the #EightyYearsWar - could #Belgium and the #Netherlands have remained one country? #AlternateHistory #Counterfactual #LowCountries #Benelux www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/what-if...
What If Belgium and the Netherlands Had Remained One Country?
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...
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December 3, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Originally published in "Never Was" magazine, Nick Ottens looks at the #WhatIf moments of the #DutchRevolt and the #EightyYearsWar - could #Belgium and the #Netherlands have remained one country? #AlternateHistory #Counterfactual #LowCountries #Benelux www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/what-if...
SLP #AlternateHistory #author John A. Hopkins ( @jahauthor.bsky.social ) discusses why he wrote "Funny Money", second in the David Brook series of #thriller #fiction set in a different, #WhatIf #ColdWar. #WritingCommunity #Writing www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/why-i-w...
Why I Wrote... Funny Money
By John A. HopkinsReceiving my paperback copy of Atomic Secrets, my first AH novel, was a thrill. Whilst I had previously self-published a novel, this felt a bit different. Perhaps it was the engageme...
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December 2, 2025 at 10:26 AM
SLP #AlternateHistory #author John A. Hopkins ( @jahauthor.bsky.social ) discusses why he wrote "Funny Money", second in the David Brook series of #thriller #fiction set in a different, #WhatIf #ColdWar. #WritingCommunity #Writing www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/why-i-w...
Gary Oswald ( @garyoswald.bsky.social ) discusses the unique #history of #Botswana, formerly known as #Bechuanaland, as part of his article series on the #ScrambleForAfrica. #Africa #AfricanHistory www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/africa-...
Africa during the Scramble: The Christian
By Gary OswaldLooking at a political Map of Africa in 1870 what is perhaps most striking is how little European control there is. Europeans had been travelling to Africa since antiquity, they had an o...
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December 1, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Gary Oswald ( @garyoswald.bsky.social ) discusses the unique #history of #Botswana, formerly known as #Bechuanaland, as part of his article series on the #ScrambleForAfrica. #Africa #AfricanHistory www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/africa-...
Gary Oswald ( @garyoswald.bsky.social ) interviews Charles EP Murphy ( @cepmurphy.bsky.social ), SLP #AlternateHistory #author and #editor of the alternate #Comics #anthology we looked at yesterday. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/intervi...
Interview: Charles EP Murphy
Questions from Gary OswaldThis Interview is with Charles EP Murphy, a regular SLP writer who can be found on twitter.Hello and thanks so much for talking to us. First of all, how did you get into Alte...
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November 30, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Gary Oswald ( @garyoswald.bsky.social ) interviews Charles EP Murphy ( @cepmurphy.bsky.social ), SLP #AlternateHistory #author and #editor of the alternate #Comics #anthology we looked at yesterday. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/intervi...
In today's #SaturdayShowcase of past SLP #AlternateHistory #books, something a bit different - Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social edits an #anthology of essays looking at how #comics in both UK and US could have taken different paths. #DCComics #Marvel www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...
COMICS OF INFINITE EARTHS | Sea Lion Press
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November 29, 2025 at 12:44 PM
In today's #SaturdayShowcase of past SLP #AlternateHistory #books, something a bit different - Charles EP Murphy @cepmurphy.bsky.social edits an #anthology of essays looking at how #comics in both UK and US could have taken different paths. #DCComics #Marvel www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...
Read for free this #AlternateHistory #vignette ( ultra #shortstory ) by Alex Wallace on our magazine blog. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/vignett...
Vignette: A Lack of Even Nothing
By Alex Wallace.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 87th contest ...
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November 28, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Read for free this #AlternateHistory #vignette ( ultra #shortstory ) by Alex Wallace on our magazine blog. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/vignett...
#SidewiseAward winning #author Matthew Kresal ( @kresalwrites.bsky.social ) discusses how #RussellTDavies almost arrived on the #DoctorWho scene 20 years earlier, with his #ColinBaker 6th Doctor script - now a #BigFinish drama - "Mind of the Hodiac". #BBC www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/doctor-...
Doctor Who: Mind of The Hodiac
By Matthew KresalThe mid-1980s is not remembered fondly by fans of the BBC's Doctor Who. The series began a downward trajectory after Peter Davison left the series, leaving his successor Colin Baker t...
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November 27, 2025 at 10:24 AM
#SidewiseAward winning #author Matthew Kresal ( @kresalwrites.bsky.social ) discusses how #RussellTDavies almost arrived on the #DoctorWho scene 20 years earlier, with his #ColinBaker 6th Doctor script - now a #BigFinish drama - "Mind of the Hodiac". #BBC www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/doctor-...
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not just doing a plug here, but this was foretold in Andy Cooke’s The Fifth Lectern, which @sealionpress.co.uk published all the way back in 2015: www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...
FPTP basically breaks, on paper and in reality, when you get more than 3 parties competing everywhere nationally
FPTP basically breaks, on paper and in reality, when you get more than 3 parties competing everywhere nationally
November 26, 2025 at 9:33 AM
not just doing a plug here, but this was foretold in Andy Cooke’s The Fifth Lectern, which @sealionpress.co.uk published all the way back in 2015: www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...
FPTP basically breaks, on paper and in reality, when you get more than 3 parties competing everywhere nationally
FPTP basically breaks, on paper and in reality, when you get more than 3 parties competing everywhere nationally
Today they're often seen as inimical rivals, but here Tom Anderson looks at how #StarTrek in its original form nonetheless influenced the beginnings of #StarWars, as did other #ScienceFiction like #Dune and #Foundation. #Worldbuilding www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/non-tre...
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 this article series, in which I explore how science fiction settin...
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November 26, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Today they're often seen as inimical rivals, but here Tom Anderson looks at how #StarTrek in its original form nonetheless influenced the beginnings of #StarWars, as did other #ScienceFiction like #Dune and #Foundation. #Worldbuilding www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/non-tre...
Gary Oswald ( @garyoswald.bsky.social ) reviews #CahokiaJazz by #FrancisSpufford, an #AlternateHistory work imagining a world in which #NativeAmericans were not devastated by disease and remain a large percentage of the #UnitedStates ' demographics. #WhatIf www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/review-...
Review: Cahokia Jazz
By Gary Oswald.The exact effect the smallpox epidemics had on the native populations of the New World is a deeply contentious historical argument. This is because there are no agreed upon population c...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Gary Oswald ( @garyoswald.bsky.social ) reviews #CahokiaJazz by #FrancisSpufford, an #AlternateHistory work imagining a world in which #NativeAmericans were not devastated by disease and remain a large percentage of the #UnitedStates ' demographics. #WhatIf www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/review-...
SLP #AlternateHistory #books are discounted in the #SmashWords #sale from December 8th! See below for details, link: smashwords.com/sale
November 24, 2025 at 2:18 PM
SLP #AlternateHistory #books are discounted in the #SmashWords #sale from December 8th! See below for details, link: smashwords.com/sale
With the recent appointment of Arturo Serrano ( @carturo222.bsky.social ) as a #SidewiseAward judge (congratulations!) here is another look at Gary Oswald's ( @garyoswald.bsky.social 's #interview with him for our #AlternateHistory #magazine #blog. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/intervi...
Interviewing the AH Community: Carlos Arturo Serrano
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...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
With the recent appointment of Arturo Serrano ( @carturo222.bsky.social ) as a #SidewiseAward judge (congratulations!) here is another look at Gary Oswald's ( @garyoswald.bsky.social 's #interview with him for our #AlternateHistory #magazine #blog. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/intervi...
Bob Mumby, #author of yesterday's #SaturdayShowcase #AlternateHistory #book "Chasing Shadows", teams up with David Hoggard in this free-to-read first #chapter of the #WhatIf #Ireland story "Many a Hero Untold". www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/first-c...
First Chapters: Many a Hero Untold
By David Hoggard and Bob MumbyWelcome to the latest in our series of first chapters showcasing our books.Today, we have Many a Hero Untold, by David Hoggard and Bob Mumby Ireland is a nation which has...
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November 23, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Bob Mumby, #author of yesterday's #SaturdayShowcase #AlternateHistory #book "Chasing Shadows", teams up with David Hoggard in this free-to-read first #chapter of the #WhatIf #Ireland story "Many a Hero Untold". www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/first-c...
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I'd like to welcome the newest judges for the Sidewise Awards for Alternate History: Andrea Horbinski, Alana Phelan, and Arturo Serrano!
November 21, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I'd like to welcome the newest judges for the Sidewise Awards for Alternate History: Andrea Horbinski, Alana Phelan, and Arturo Serrano!
In today's #SaturdayShowcase of past SLP #AlternateHistory books, it's "Chasing Shadows" by Bob Mumby. #WhatIf the #BusinessPlot had been real - but the corporate puppet president #SmedleyButler had a chance of heart? www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...
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November 22, 2025 at 10:15 AM
In today's #SaturdayShowcase of past SLP #AlternateHistory books, it's "Chasing Shadows" by Bob Mumby. #WhatIf the #BusinessPlot had been real - but the corporate puppet president #SmedleyButler had a chance of heart? www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...
Ryan Fleming explores a legendary case of #DevelopmentHell for #RichardWilliams' #animated #film, "The Thief and the Cobbler" - delayed from 1964 to 1993, by which point many assumed it to be a mere #Aladdin ripoff. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/tales-f...
Tales From Development Hell: The Thief and the Cobbler
By Ryan Fleming.There are some films whose development hell has made them infamous, usually for ruining what could have been a good film. Then there are those whose development hell has made them lege...
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November 21, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Ryan Fleming explores a legendary case of #DevelopmentHell for #RichardWilliams' #animated #film, "The Thief and the Cobbler" - delayed from 1964 to 1993, by which point many assumed it to be a mere #Aladdin ripoff. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/tales-f...
#AlternateHistory veteran Dale Cozort looks at the possibility of a real incident spiralling into a #WhatIf war between #Japan and the #SovietUnion in 1934. #Counterfactual #WW2 #InterwardPeriod www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/soviet-...
Soviet/Japanese war in 1934
By Dale CozortThis Scenario was originally posted on Dale's Website in 1997. Essays like this can be found in Dale's 'Space Bats and Butterflies' Collections.What actually happened: In the late 1920s ...
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November 20, 2025 at 9:02 AM
#AlternateHistory veteran Dale Cozort looks at the possibility of a real incident spiralling into a #WhatIf war between #Japan and the #SovietUnion in 1934. #Counterfactual #WW2 #InterwardPeriod www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/soviet-...
To celebrate the completion of Alex Richards ( @arichards.bsky.social ) 's multi-year project to #map every #parish in #England (see quote post) here's another look at the #article series he wrote on #mapmaking in #fiction. #Cartography #AlternateHistory www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/so-you-...
November 19, 2025 at 10:00 AM
To celebrate the completion of Alex Richards ( @arichards.bsky.social ) 's multi-year project to #map every #parish in #England (see quote post) here's another look at the #article series he wrote on #mapmaking in #fiction. #Cartography #AlternateHistory www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/so-you-...
In this new "Dreams from the Dark Years" series article, Paul Hynes discusses #France 's security guarantees to #Poland before the outbreak of #WW2 and the ill-fated #Saar Offensive against #NaziGermany during the #PhonyWar. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/dreams-...
Dreams from the Dark Years: Fool's Mate
By Paul Hynes.The 2001 film The Pianist contains many disturbing scenes but there is one at the very beginning which sticks out for this series.It involves the Jewish Szpilman family in Warsaw on the ...
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November 18, 2025 at 9:51 AM
In this new "Dreams from the Dark Years" series article, Paul Hynes discusses #France 's security guarantees to #Poland before the outbreak of #WW2 and the ill-fated #Saar Offensive against #NaziGermany during the #PhonyWar. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/dreams-...