Why write Alternative History? By Gary OswaldSea Lion Press is built around producing Alternative or Alternate History content and implicit in that goal is the assumption that there is value in Alt History literature. But obviously...

Gary Oswald ( @garyoswald.bsky.social ) looks at the core question of why we choose to write #AlternateHistory #WhatIf #books and what makes the #genre fascinating to us. #Writing #WritingCommunity #Author #Counterfactual www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/why-wri...

Congratulations to #NASA and partners for an absolutely textbook crewed lunar mission - something we once feared we'd only see again in #AlternateHistory fiction.

Ain’t it beautiful? Welcome home, Artemis II!

I remember Columbia vividly and I didn’t breathe easier until they had voice contact. Even more so once the chutes opened because I know about Soyuz 1.

As someone who loves hot sauce and has two of these on a regular basis (with one in my fridge as I type), I wholeheartedly approve.

they really said "they should have sent a poet"

Absolutely incredible Nutella ad.

I've spent a lifetime dreaming of this moment. And I can't help smiling and feeling a little teary eyed. That I can do so in a hospital lobby while my Mum has hand surgery is just 1 of the wonders that would have been all but unimaginable more than 50 years ago.

What a time to be alive. #ArtemisII

The two recently recovered episodes of Daleks Master Plan are on the official Doctor Who Classic YouTube? My plan to go to bed at a decent hour has gone out the window!

It’s Been a Long Road: Artemis II By Tom Anderson.The 2000s Star Trek prequel series Enterprise had a controversial opening sequence; not so much for the imagery used (which shows technological progress in exploration from wooden sail...

Humanity is about to go back to the #Moon for the first time in 54 years with the #ArtemisII mission. Tom Anderson, a longtime #space enthusiast who's been waiting for this half his life, looks at the long wait and the #WhatIf moments. #NASA #Moonshot www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/it-s-be...

This. So, so much this.

54 years.

Give or take a few months, that’s when Casper (the Apollo 16 command module on the left) went to the Moon on the penultimate Apollo lunar mission. Now, at long last, Artemis is taking another crew back.

Godspeed, Artemis II!

Review: DC: The New Frontier By Matthew Kresal.In the 1950s, the Golden Age of Comics gave way to the Silver Age. The real world changed and, with attention brought to the comics as a result, some old characters retired or evolve...

#SidewiseAward winning #author Matthew Kresal ( @kresalwrites.bsky.social ) reviews #DCTheNewFrontier by #DarwynCooke and #DaveStewart, in which #DCComics #superheroes of the #GoldenAge are reimagined as interacting with the real world of the 1950s. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/review-...

🎵 Sweet Home Krypton 🎵

Review: Doctor Who: Power Play By Matthew Kresal.The 1980s. A time of tensions related to all thing nuclear. A fear of nuclear weapons and nuclear war dramatized so ably in TV dramas such as Threads and The Day After. Also present ...

#SidewiseAward winning #author Matthew Kresal ( @kresalwrites.bsky.social ) reviews the #DoctorWho #BigFinish #AudioDrama "Power Play" by Gary Hopkins, a #ColdWar themed story planned for the #ColinBaker era and finally realised (with Baker) in 2008. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/review-...

Hey, remember how I said that my third friend in the oil industry didn’t respond? Yeah they got back to me.

It’s not looking good, team

Bloody hell. I’m curious to hear the justification for this other than it was an Iranian ship given it was a literal ocean away.

screenshot of a tv user guide, showing two channels under Tue 8PM: MSNOW - State of the union TCM East- Gaslight

Masterful Troll, TCM.

I can’t help feeling Douglas Adams would be enjoying this if he were here.

Review: Doctor Who: The First Sontarans By Matthew Kresal.What would Doctor Who be without its monsters? The Daleks secured the series’ hold with the public in its earliest days while the Cybermen have offered a glimpse of what humanity cou...

#SidewiseAward winning #author Matthew Kresal ( @kresalwrites.bsky.social ) reviews the #BigFinish #AudioDrama "The First #Sontarans", a #DoctorWho #originstory that missed its chance in the 80s. #BBC #ColinBaker #AndrewSmith www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/review-...

The Launch Box: PoDs of the Space Age - PoD 1: The first satellite is American By Andy CookeThis series will look at potential Points of Divergence (PoDs) of the Space Age. From the first launches to the present day, there are so many things that only went the way they did by t...

More #space themed #WhatIf moments from Andy Cooke as we count down to the #NASA #ArtemisII #moon mission. Could the US have beat the #SovietUnion 's #Sputnik and had the first #satellite in orbit? #SpaceRace #ColdWar www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/the-lau...

Kim Ju Ae: North Korea leader Kim Jong Un chooses daughter as heir, Seoul says South Korea's spy agency says Ki Ju Ae's prominent public presence indicates she is the chosen heir.

I knew that it was a possibility that North Korea would have a female leader before the United States elected a female president. But I just wasn't expecting that day to come so soon.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

First short story of the year submitted. As always with stuff written on spec, no idea what the odds of it landing might be. It feels good to be writing again, though. #Writing #AuthorLife

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...

#SidewiseAward winning #author Matthew Kresal ( @kresalwrites.bsky.social ) reviews a #comic #prequel to the #DoctorWho ' #mirroruniverse ' episode #Inferno. www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/review-...

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...

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...

Why I Wrote... Our Man On The Hill By Matthew Kresal.“Where do your ideas come from?”That’s almost an inevitable question one receives after a stranger finds out you’re a published author. One that is almost always in the wake of, “Wha...

#SidewiseAward winning #author Matthew Kresal ( @kresalwrites.bsky.social ) discusses why he wrote "Our Man on the Hill" - #WhatIf arch-red-baiter #JoeMcCarthy had secretly been a #Communist agent himself? www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/why-i-w...

"we're here to inspect your daycare center"

I’m in the 97th percentile. Dang…

My thanks once again this year to Leigh Ann Laney on Facebook for her post awhile back tipping me off about MyYearInBooks.Com existing. Go check it out and support it for your own stats!