Sea Lion Press: 21 books

What if Remain had won in 2016? What if Britain had never joined the EEC? What if groups other than Europe had decided to unite? In this EU-themed collection from Sea Lion Press and edited by Tom Black (Agent Lavender, Shuffling the Deck, Zonen), you will find some worlds very like our own,...

It took three things to bring about the End of the World: A space drive that was to open the stars to humanity. Exiled Warlords willing to blackmail the world to restore their tyranny. Their intended victims, desperate to avoid them. But even though the Earth might be doomed, Hope could still...

For reasons of political expediency, United Whigs and Tories Prime Minister, Lord Salisbury, has persuaded Queen Victoria to accept the title of Queen-Empress of the Stuart realms. Whilst the great and good assemble at Glenfinnan for the ceremony, vast numbers of Russian troops are on the move....

In 1901, the Polish immigrant turned anarchist assassin Leon Czolgosz sought to strike terror in the captains of industry by killing President McKinley. The assassin never completed his task. In a world where Theodore Roosevelt never became president, where the Progressive Era remained stillborn,...

In January 1911, President Taft signed The Useful Animals Appropriation Act, and within months, the first hippopotomi arrived on the Calcasieu River. In real life, none of this happened. But in Bearfish, John O'Brien offers a deep, amusing and often moving picture of an America forever altered by the introduction of one fateful animal that Americans chose to call the bearfish.

As the nineteenth century opens, Europe is in turmoil. A foreign King sits on the throne of Spain and France is in the midst of revolution. How will the restored House of Stuart deal with the challenges which abound in Europe and the Americas? With slave revolts in the West Indies, a military...

What makes a President 'presidential'? Is it tone of voice, is it the right suits, is it saying the right phrases to the right people? In Presidential, Martin Concagh explores an alternate world through the defining moments of different American Presidents. The influential moments of...

Ireland is a nation which has endured much over its long and storied history. But the struggles the newborn country endured when it was born in the younger years of the 20th century are obscured by the grander history of World Wars, the rise of superpowers, and the clash of ideologies. Ireland’s...

A VICTORIAN ARMAGEDDON Global disaster strikes as an asteroid impact causes a megatsunami in the Indian Ocean and the eruption of the Yellowstone Supervolcano in the United States. The people of the world, reeling from the blow, struggle to survive. But this is not the present day. This...

1851 – and, as a result of a double Royal suicide, England and France are at war. The chosen battleground is northern Spain – but this is only the first part of Europe to feel the dreadful effects of The General European Wars. Conflict spreads northwards, from Tyneside to Dunkirk...

By 1861, the General European Wars have ended and the map of the whole continent has been substantially re-drawn. For the restored Stuart dynasty, the hoped-for peace will not, however, happen. Over the next ten years, Great Britain will face riots and attempted revolution with parliamentary...

As the twentieth century approaches, politics and extreme weather have combined to turn the world upside down and the changes are still happening. Germany is gone; Central and Western Europe now try to adjust to new realities. A series of natural disasters sweep across the Stuart realms...

The Great War has been raging for eighteen years.  In celebration of Christmas, Tsar Nicholas II attends the theatre in St. Petersburg but he is not to survive the evening. His successors determine that taking part in the peace talks which Pope Benedict has mooted may well be to Russia's advantage....

Harold Wilson dominated British politics for almost two decades. His political skill saw him make powerful enemies and bitter rivals, both inside the Labour Party and out. Conspiracy theorists, some in very high places, even circulated rumours that he was an agent of the Soviet Union. In reality,...