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Hello all, Today I have formally become the new blog editor for Sea Lion Press, replacing Gary Oswald, whom I thank greatly for his efforts to the community in the past few years. You can read my introductory letter to the community here. I will be taking pitches for new articles for the blog...

It's frankly kind of horrifying. It's multiple cultures annihilated for a 'gotcha!' on an American internet forum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerian_Chrislam This may fit the bill.

I read this in Holy Lands: Reviving Pluralism in the Middle East by Nicolas Pelham.

It was only the Saudis that banned non-Muslim travel to the holy cities. The Ottomans allowed anyone in.

Today it was announced that Eric Flint, author of the 1632 series, died at the age of 75. His impact on the alternate history genre was immense. There is a gofundme to help his wife with memorial expenses; I have already chipped in some...

Building a Better Future, the anthology produced by Alternate Historians for Ukraine (and host to my story Our Lady of Guidance), is now available for purchase. All proceeds will go to the UK Charity Disasters Emergency Committee.

https://forum.sealionpress.co.uk/index.php?threads/panel-discussion-guns-and-butter-part-2.4853/#post-1025820 The second part is now live.

https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/guns-and-butter-violence-power-and-alternatives-in-alternate-history Our genre is a violent one. Much of its speculation is on military conflict to the detriment of other areas of human history. To investigate this question, I assembled a panel of...

They're still looking at an uprising. For the truly devout, the Church is beyond politics, because it is the One True Church. Something so petty and meaningless as politics usually isn't enough to break with the Church.

I feel this fundamentally misunderstands the role the Catholic Church serves to its faithful. To a devout Catholic, the Catholic Church is the One True Church. The first Pope was Peter, who was directly appointed by Jesus Christ. The Bishops of the Church can trace a direct line all the way...

I'm the editor of AlloAmericana!

The world remains sane.

The font on this is nigh-impossible to read. Someone took fraktur and overdid it.

John Birmingham's Axis of Time series does this very well.