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By Alexander Wallace. This article was originally published at Nerds of a Feather and the original article can be found there. Please check that blog for more like this. Cover courtesy Amazon Mainstream Western alternate history fiction has a tendency to view Imperial Japan as a sidekick to the Nazis. This is doubtless because most writers in that tradition are Western and as su...

By Ryan Fleming. The Renaissance had at last made it to the strange new world that had seemingly appeared from thin air in the South Pacific several days before – shipwrecked, exhausted, and having narrowly escaped death by both armed freebooters and tentacled monstrosities. Their situation had not improved upon landfall, where a momentary distraction had allowed the form of som...

By Gary Oswald. It was this guy, Harthacnut, though he probably didn't look like this 14th century artist thought. Taken from a Genealogical Roll of the Kings of England, provided by the British Museum to wikimedia commons. In 1013 Sweyn Forkbeard, King of Denmark and Norway, invaded England after having raided the country regularly for the last decade. England was considerably ...

By Raffaele Gaggioli. I’ve always been passionate about alternate history, even though this genre isn’t very common in Italian literature. For this reason, as soon as I had the chance, I started visiting forums and buying alternate history books in English. One problem I encountered with this approach was that I rarely found discussions, books, or other material concerning Itali...

By Ryan Fleming. The Renaissance were aboard their launch speeding towards the shore of the strange new world that had captivated the imaginations, and greed, of the entire world. They were two hundred yards out and closing. Closing in upon them were the long, trunk-like tentacles of some unseen monstrosity. Another fifty yards closer to the share, but still the tentacles closed...