Poca favilla gran fiamma seconda
Recently I came across the placename Geneva Barracks, near Passage East in Waterford. Obviously a slightly unusual name, I wondered was it an Anglicisation of something – but in fact…
My first SF Site review, and continuing the theme of alternate history. Conroy’s work is much more straightforwardly alternate history than Owen Sheers’ Resistance , and a much less impressive literary work,…
All historical fiction is in some way “alternate history” fiction. As a genre however, alternate history is explicitly counterfactual. “Alt hist”, with its echoes of “alt country”, for me…
Séamus Sweeney 