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    I am now the new Sea Lion Press blog editor

    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...
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    Eric Flint has died

    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...
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    Guns and Butter: Violence, Power, and Alternatives in Alternate History

    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...
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    German-American culture without the World Wars

    I stumbled upon this really interesting comment in /r/AskanAmerican discussing German influences on American culture had the World Wars not marginalized it to the extent it had done. Link is here; for ease of access it is quoted below. Are there any other diversions we might see in this...
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    Different 'traditions' in the alternate history genre

    This is something I've been mulling over for a while, regarding certain splits in the alternate history genre. What I'm tempted to think is that there are at least two different 'traditions' of writing within the genre that are noticeable when looking at different works. I'm not sure if any of...
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    Theodor Herzl's 'The Old New Land' as honorary alternate history

    In 1902 noted Zionist Theodor Herzl wrote a book entitled The Old New Land, speculating what a Jewish-colonized Palestine would look like in the then-future 1920s. Long story short, it's run in a quasi-socialist manner with democratic businesses and labor cooperatives, and with Jews, Arabs, and...
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    London Waka by Robert Sullivan

    London Waka is a poem by Robert Sullivan, a Maori author, that describes a world where the historical relationship between the British and the Maori is reversed. It can be read here. 'Waka' is a Maori word for 'canoe.' I was exposed to this due to a class I am currently taking, and we're in a...
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    Map and Flag program recommendations?

    I'm starting to consider making a map for a world I'm developing - far future stuff, not on Earth - and I was wondering what you guys would recommend in regards to a program that I can use to draw one. Also, I'm starting to consider making flags for the above project. What programs would you...
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    Way for WWII to end in stalemate?

    In May I'll be chairing a Model United Nations committee for middle schoolers, and I have successfully been able to persuade the club secretariat to allow me to have my committee set in a world where WWII ended in a stalemate, with American/British, German, and Soviet blocs in a Cold War of...
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    Scorpions in a Bottle: 'For Want of a Nail' Expanded

    Preface: I have recently finished reading Robert Sobel's For Want of a Nail, and also browsed through David Bar Elias' Timeline 191: After the End, and have wondered what could happen after the former's cutoff date of 1971, using the techniques of the latter. I have some interesting things...
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    Alternate Anthems Thread

    This is a thread for national anthems and other songs of a similar purpose (party anthems, ethnic anthems, marching songs, etc.) from alternate worlds. Anything is permitted. Some of my own work: Versions of German marching songs for the TL-191 USA. This one was written with revisions by...
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    WI: Bomb goes off at 1940 Republican National Convention

    As stated here, there was a bomb discovery at the 1940 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia. What would have happened had this bomb or bombs gone off? Assume all the potential nominees die.
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    The Rise of the Tri-State World Order: A Timeline of Orwell's '1984'

    Foreword: This is my magnum opus for this school year in the form of a project for my English class in our study of George Orwell's 1984. The teacher permitted me to write a possible history for Orwell's novel as a study in the historical events and institutions that inspired the novel in the...
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    Confederate Victory Thread Glossary - is it needed?

    The after 1900 forum has a stickied thread to display all the Sealion threads to prevent new users from making a new thread about Sealion without knowing how overused it is. Should we have a similar thread here for Confederate victory threads?
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    AHC: Something Monumental Happen During the Fillmore Presidency

    Millard Fillmore is remembered in modern American political discourse for being incredibly obscure. Therefore, your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to make something monumental happen during the Fillmore presidency such that it is remembered in the coming centuries.
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    AHC: Cold War won by Non-Aligned Movement

    Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is for the Non-Aligned Movement to win the Cold War in a manner decisive enough to be comparable to how the USA is seen to have won the Cold War in OTL. This is to be done without nuclear war.
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    DBWI: Hitler Is Rejected from Art School

    We all remember Adolf Hitler as the artist who defended the classical Western tradition of painting in the face of the Socialist Realism preferred by Communist states such as the USSR and the Socialist Republic of Germany. What if, for some reason, the art school in Vienna rejects him? How...
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    Native Americans in Socialist USA

    The USA goes socialist in a revolution akin to Eugene Byrne and Kim Newman's Back in the USSA or some similar scenario. Assume this regime supports forced collectivization. How does this regime treat Native Americans on reservations? Are they collectivized along with the rest of the country...
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    AHC: President John Philip Sousa

    With a PoD no earlier than November 6th, 1854, his date of birth, make John Philip Sousa President of the United States. Bonus points if he still composes marches. Even more bonus points if he is somehow simultaneously a bandmaster and President.
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    AHC: Palace of the Soviets Completed

    Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have the proposed Palace of the Soviets constructed in Moscow as planned.
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