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Graeme Shimmin’s thoughts on Alternative (Alternate) History.
The Final Countdown is a time-travel movie from 1980, starring Kirk Douglas and Martin Sheen. It’s often described as an alternative history movie, though technically it isn’t. Despite that, it…
One of the best things about writing alternative history novels is putting my characters in the cockpit of my favourite alternative history vehicles. I think there’s something fascinating about being able to…
The Coming Race, written in 1871 by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, was one of the first lost world novels and a prototype science-fiction novel. Weirdly, the novel also played a role in…
Today is a proud day for me – the day we release Revolutions, my first anthology as editor. Revolutions is a collection of science-fiction, horror, dystopian and just plain weird…
The Madagaskar Plan by Guy Saville is the sequel to his bestselling alternate history thriller, The Afrika Reich. In The Afrika Reich the protagonist, Burton Cole, attempted to assassinate the German…
Exciting news – the A Kill in the Morning paperback is out today! This morning, I found it nicely displayed in my local book shop: My Journey I’ve…
Iron Sky is a 2012 alternate history black comedy about a world where the Nazis fled to the moon in 1945. In 2018 they invade Earth. It was…
The Afrika Reich was written by Guy Saville and published in 2011. It’s a military thriller set in an alternate history where there was a truce between Britain…
Wolfenstein: The New Order is a video game developed by Machine Games and released in 2014. It’s a first-person shooter set in an alternate history where Nazi Germany…
The Manchester Speculative Fiction Group, of which I’m a member, is producing a showcase anthology. We are currently looking for writers to submit stories for inclusion. The anthology…