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THE TENACITY OF HOPE | Sea Lion Press
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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 www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...
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. www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...
WELL MET BY STARLIGHT | Sea Lion Press
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February 1, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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. www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...
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. www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...
THE SURLY BONDS OF EARTH | Sea Lion Press
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January 31, 2026 at 12:38 PM
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. www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...
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 www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/vignett...
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...
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January 30, 2026 at 10:23 AM
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 www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/vignett...
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 www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/apollo-...
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 ...
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January 29, 2026 at 10:04 AM
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 www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/apollo-...
Originally published in "Never Was" #AlternateHistory #magazine, Nick Ottens considers the possibility of #WilliamAndMary founding a lasting Anglo-Dutch Union. #Netherlands #England #History #WhatIf www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/anglo-d...
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...
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January 28, 2026 at 10:01 AM
Originally published in "Never Was" #AlternateHistory #magazine, Nick Ottens considers the possibility of #WilliamAndMary founding a lasting Anglo-Dutch Union. #Netherlands #England #History #WhatIf www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/anglo-d...
#SidewiseAward winning #author Matthew Kresal ( @kresalwrites.bsky.social ) reviews a #comic #prequel to the #DoctorWho ' #mirroruniverse ' episode #Inferno. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/review-...
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...
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January 27, 2026 at 10:11 AM
#SidewiseAward winning #author Matthew Kresal ( @kresalwrites.bsky.social ) reviews a #comic #prequel to the #DoctorWho ' #mirroruniverse ' episode #Inferno. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/review-...
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 www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/alterna...
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...
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January 26, 2026 at 9:36 AM
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 www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/alterna...
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 www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/intervi...
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...
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January 25, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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 www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/intervi...
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 www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/tales-f...
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...
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January 24, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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 www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/tales-f...
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". www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/from-th...
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...
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January 22, 2026 at 10:08 AM
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". www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/from-th...
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. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/non-tre...
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...
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January 21, 2026 at 12:42 PM
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. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/non-tre...
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. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/what-if...
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 ...
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January 21, 2026 at 12:08 AM
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. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/what-if...
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 www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/countdo...
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...
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January 19, 2026 at 9:49 AM
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 www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/countdo...
From the archives: Gary Oswald ( @garyoswald.bsky.social ) interviews Katy Moran ( @katyjamoran.bsky.social ) #author of #romantic #historicalfiction and #AlternateHistory #books. #AuthorInterview #Writing #WritingCommunity www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/intervi...
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...
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January 18, 2026 at 1:45 PM
From the archives: Gary Oswald ( @garyoswald.bsky.social ) interviews Katy Moran ( @katyjamoran.bsky.social ) #author of #romantic #historicalfiction and #AlternateHistory #books. #AuthorInterview #Writing #WritingCommunity www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/intervi...
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I heard Twitter is down so for any refugees from there, check out some of these cool alternate history accounts. go.bsky.app/CqUujDq
January 16, 2026 at 4:08 PM
I heard Twitter is down so for any refugees from there, check out some of these cool alternate history accounts. go.bsky.app/CqUujDq
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. www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...
DECISIVE DARKNESS | Sea Lion Press
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January 17, 2026 at 10:46 AM
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. www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...
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 www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/review-...
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 ...
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January 16, 2026 at 10:03 AM
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 www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/review-...
Alex Wallace discusses the challenges of #writing #AlternateHistory when it deals with visceral recent events. #WhatIf #Counterfactual #WritingCommunity www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/alterna...
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 ...
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January 15, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Alex Wallace discusses the challenges of #writing #AlternateHistory when it deals with visceral recent events. #WhatIf #Counterfactual #WritingCommunity www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/alterna...
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. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/what-sl...
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...
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January 14, 2026 at 9:49 AM
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. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/what-sl...
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 www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/dreams-...
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...
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January 13, 2026 at 9:47 AM
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 www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/dreams-...
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 www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/africa-...
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...
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January 12, 2026 at 10:23 AM
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 www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/africa-...
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. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/why-i-w...
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...
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January 11, 2026 at 2:34 PM
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. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/why-i-w...
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. www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...
ATOMIC SECRETS | Sea Lion Press
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January 10, 2026 at 11:18 AM
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. www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...
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 www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/fiction...
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 ...
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January 9, 2026 at 10:03 AM
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 www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/fiction...
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 www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/julius-...
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...
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January 8, 2026 at 10:15 AM
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 www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/julius-...