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The world's first publishing label dedicated to the world of counterfactual history (Est. 2015)

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Sea Lion Press @sealionpress.co.uk · Jul 1

Sea Lion Press is pleased to announce our #SummerSale at #SmashWords has begun! Read the link for more information - check out #AlternateHistory #novels and #anthologies alike at a discounted price! #Writing #WritingCommunity #Books #BookSale #Sale www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/summer-...

While Amazon is our main retailer, it's not our only one - dozens of Sea Lion books are available at Smashwords as well and throughout the whole of July, they're all on sale!We've got thematic antholo...

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Sea Lion Press @sealionpress.co.uk · 52m

Wm. Garret Cothran looks at the strange connection between #JamesCameron and #TheTerminator and the #LosAngeles #riots of 1992. #USHistory #California #FilmHistory www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/how-jam...

How James Cameron Led to the LA Riots

By Wm. Garrett CothranAlright so the title itself is what made you decide to read this I suspect. How on earth would a film maker, the guy who made blue cats in Avatar have any impact on police brutal...

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Sea Lion Press @sealionpress.co.uk · 1d

David Hoggard discusses the #PirateParty #political #ideology that briefly looked as though it would upset the status quo in the early 2010s. #Copyright #Piracy #Politics www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/other-i...

Other Ideologies: Pirate Politics

By David HoggardThe European elections of last week have been a goldmine for opinion-merchants, providing a rich seam of data that can – if you squint – support whichever theory you have been pushing ...

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Sea Lion Press @sealionpress.co.uk · 2d

Bruce is so influential that a particular map style with innovative ideas and snarky comments became known as 'the B_Munroesque map' as its own genre. We ran an interview by @garyoswald.bsky.social with him here: www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/intervi...

Interviewing the AH Community: Bruce Munro

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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Sea Lion Press @sealionpress.co.uk · 2d

Ryan Fleming ( @ryanafwrites.bsky.social ) is back again with another tale from #DevelopmentHell - in this case a version of #CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon by #JohnCarpenter. #FilmHistory #Horror #Universal #MonsterPictures #ChevyChase www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/tales-f...

Tales from Development Hell: John Carpenter’s Creature from the Black Lagoon

By Ryan Fleming.In many respects, the monster movies of the 1930s and 1940s from Universal were the first film franchise as we understand them today. A stable of characters, sequels, spin-offs, crosso...

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Sea Lion Press @sealionpress.co.uk · 3d

With #NASA planning to launch the #Artemis II mission next year which resembles #Apollo 8, Andy Cooke looks at how that mission avoided disaster. #SpaceRace #ColdWar #SpaceHistory www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/the-lau...

The Launchbox, PoD 5: Christmas Catastrophe - the Disaster of Apollo 8

By Andy CookeOn Christmas Day, 1968, Apollo 8 entered lunar orbit smoothly - the first manned spacecraft to reach the Moon.It was the moment that NASA truly recovered from the Fire, and the point wher...

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Sea Lion Press @sealionpress.co.uk · 3d

The third part of our #SundaySerial "The Galton Horror" by Charles EP Murphy ( @cepmurphy.bsky.social ) is now available to read! #Serial #Horror #HorrorFiction #Writing #WritingCommunity www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/serial-...

Serial Sunday: The Galton Horror III

By Charles E.P. Murphy.This time Gunnar didn’t get permission to leave for ‘trainspotting’, he just pretended to go to bed early and them snuck out the back door. He got a twinge of guilt about being ...

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Sea Lion Press @sealionpress.co.uk · 5d

Yesterday we heard from Andy Cooke about his "Endeavour" #ScienceFiction series available through SLP; also check out Tom Anderson's "Well Met By Starlight", a tale of #FirstContact as you've never seen it before. #Writing #WritingCommunity www.sealionpress.co.uk/product-page...

WELL MET BY STARLIGHT | Sea Lion Press

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Sea Lion Press @sealionpress.co.uk · 6d

Andy Cooke discusses why he wrote the epic #ScienceFiction "Endeavour" series, concerning the end of the world and the quest to colonise another. #Apocalypse #PostApocalyptic #SpaceTracvel #Writing #WritingCommunity www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/why-i-w...

Why I Wrote... The Endeavour Series

By Andy Cooke.The editor asked me to write a short article on “Why I wrote…” any of my SLP books. Naturally, I turned in an article on an entire series. The Endeavour series began as a single book wit...

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Sea Lion Press @sealionpress.co.uk · 7d

#AlternateHistory veteran #author Dale Cozort considers the #WhatIf moments of #Turkey entering #WW2 much earlier than it did in the war we know. #Inonu #SecondWorldWar #Turkiye www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/what-if...

What If Turkey Had Entered World War II?

By Dale CozortThis Scenario was originally posted on Dale's Website in 1998. Essays like this can be found in Dale's 'Space Bats and Butterflies' Collections.If you look at a map of Europe and the Mid...

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Sea Lion Press @sealionpress.co.uk · 7d

ignoring the lesson they had just taught losing Midway in part because Admiral Yamamoto stayed with the battleships which arrived too late to have any impact on the outcome of the battle. The battleship Yamato fired its guns ONCE and was irrelevant to the war, yet it gets an anime series about it.

Sea Lion Press @sealionpress.co.uk · 7d

(TA here) I actually wrote that article, and that was before I knew that much about the subject. The battleship obsession has got silly at times IRL - like Japan illustrating the preponderance of naval air power over battleships at Pearl Harbor and the Repulse, and then [1/2]

Sea Lion Press @sealionpress.co.uk · 8d

Gary Oswald ( @garyoswald.bsky.social ) looks at the #history of #Zanzibar, slaver colony of #Oman turned flashpoint in the #ScrambleForAfrica. #Tanzania #AFricanHistory #Mombasa #BritishEmpire #Slavery www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/africa-...

Africa during the Scramble: The Asian Empire

By Gary OswaldThere were eight European Empires involved in the Scramble. Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Turkey and the UK. The great losers of those 8 were the Ottoman Empire of Tu...

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Sea Lion Press @sealionpress.co.uk · 9d

A new #AlternateHistory #vignette (ultra #shortstory) from Roshita Narasimhan, exploring the idea of the #Superman archetype transposed into the context of #India and her neighbours. #WhatIf #Elseworlds #DCComics #Asia #MingDynasty #MughalEmpire www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/vignett...

Vignette: The Human Sun in: Terror in the Donghai!

By Roshita Narasimhan.Off in the distant red giant system of Arcturus, the planet of Xenon was a prosperous civilization, having eradicated hunger, disease, capitalism, and other vices, becoming a bur...

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Sea Lion Press @sealionpress.co.uk · 10d

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...

Consequences in Alternate History: Across the Wild Wood

By Tom AndersonHow a Scotsman’s Alcoholism and an Englishman’s Bad Aim Created Modern Children’s Literature Kenneth Grahame was, as one biographical sketch put it, ‘a big, shy Scot’. He was born in Ed...

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Sea Lion Press @sealionpress.co.uk · 10d

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-...

Serial Sunday: The Galton Horror II

School was doing a trip to Galton Spaceport on Monday. Dr Barrington himself was going to show the Year 11 classes around the Shackleton 3 probe. And because he’d been out too late, Gunnar’s parents k...

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Sea Lion Press @sealionpress.co.uk · 12d

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...

CHAMBERLAIN RESIGNS AND OTHER THINGS THAT DID NOT HAPPEN | Sea Lion Press

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Sea Lion Press @sealionpress.co.uk · 13d

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...

Alternate Religions: Antonianism

By Gary Oswald.The Kingdom of Kongo was one of the largest and most powerful pre-colonial states in Sub-Saharan Africa. Its capital was in modern Angola and it dominated the mouth of the Congo river f...

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Sea Lion Press @sealionpress.co.uk · 14d

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...

Prequel Problems: Young Montalbano

By Tom AndersonIn a previous article in this series, I discussed the Inspector Morse franchise; how it developed from a series of novels written by Colin Dexter from 1975 onwards to an iconic TV serie...

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Sea Lion Press @sealionpress.co.uk · 15d

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...

Late Qing Catastrophes: The Taiping and the West

By Tyler ParsonsThis is a series of articles about the Taiping Rebellion, the first summed up the Military campaign, the second the internal problems of the rebels and the third the simultaneous Secon...

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Sea Lion Press @sealionpress.co.uk · 16d

And speaking of #Tupac, if you haven't seen it before, here's Tom Anderson's older article looking at how he (and #Garibaldi biscuits) are cases of someone trying to honour a past figure through a namesake but end up overwriting them instead. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/consequ...

Consequences in Alternate History: The Garibaldi Problem

By Tom Anderson I recently mentioned on social media that on this day (then November 4th) Túpac Amaru II had launched his uprising in Peru against Spanish rule in 1780. I mentioned this because in my ...

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Sea Lion Press @sealionpress.co.uk · 16d

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...

Tales From Development Hell: Live 2 Tell

By Ryan Fleming.Musicians dabbling in acting was nothing new by the 1990s. Sometimes the musician didn’t even need to have any acting ability whatsoever and the roles would be written around them, as ...

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Sea Lion Press @sealionpress.co.uk · 17d

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...

'Ruled Britannia' review

By Alexander WallaceShakespeare can be hard to parse nowadays; he is often taught in such a manner that is antithetical to the spirit of his oeuvre. His works are plays, designed to be watched and per...

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Sea Lion Press @sealionpress.co.uk · 17d

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-...

Serial Sunday: The Galton Horror I

By Charles EP Murphy.A mere handful of people in Britain watched the Shackleton 1 probe launch into space back in 1996. Gunnar Glass had been twelve, portly and mousy-haired and learning to avoid the ...

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Sea Lion Press @sealionpress.co.uk · 19d

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...

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Sea Lion Press @sealionpress.co.uk · 20d

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-...

Dreams from the Dark Years: Strange Defeat

By Paul Hynes.In the early hours of Wednesday the 15th of May, 1940, Winston Churchill was awoken to a nightmare. It came in the form of a phone call from his French counterpart, Prime Minister Paul R...

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