# ryan fleming (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover ryan fleming. Page: Feed: --- ## [Alternate Irelands: Where The Gaels Are So Pretty](https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/alternate-irelands-where-the-gaels-are-so-pretty) _2026-08-21 · cepmurphywrites · Sea Lion Press_ By Gary Oswald. The Gaels and the Norse battle for control of Ireland at the Battle of Clontarf, as imagined in 1905 by Eoghan Ó Neachtain. Public domain courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Ireland prior to 800 AD was almost entirely rural. There were settlements but these were normally either ringforts where in a clan would find shelter during wars or monasteries and religious schools for Catholic… ## [Review: War Front: Turning Point](https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/review-war-front-turning-point) _2026-08-18 · cepmurphywrites · Sea Lion Press_ 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. The game cover, courtesy Wikipedia. There is a lot to be said about War Front: Turning Point, as I have discovered it after marching through its twenty-two missions. It is a real-time strategy game from 2007, made by the Hungarian… ## [Serial Sunday: The Renaissance Man and the Strange New World, Part IX](https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/serial-sunday-the-renaissance-man-and-the-strange-new-world-part-ix) _2026-08-16 · cepmurphywrites · Sea Lion Press_ By Ryan Fleming. Frank Slate was practically giddy to have the famed Renaissance Man, Charles Chance, on the business end of his revolver. He had never cared much for the do-gooder or his ilk that the press and swell types fawned over. Even at his end of society the sheer number of people inclined to like him annoyed Slate. Who would they regard as the more impressive figure now, he wondered. The… ## [Review: Doctor Who: Alixion](https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/review-doctor-who-alixion) _2026-08-14 · cepmurphywrites · Sea Lion Press_ By Matthew Kresal. When Survival aired in November and December 1989, a number of ideas and serials were in development for Doctor Who’s 27th season. Ones that would, ultimately, go unmade when the series entered what has instead become known to its fans as the Wilderness Era. One of which has earned a place in fandom as a potential regeneration story for Sylvester McCoy’s Seventh Doctor set in a… ## [The Zimba and the Abrahamic faiths](https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/the-zimba-and-the-abrahamic-faiths) _2026-08-11 · cepmurphywrites · Sea Lion Press_ By Gary Oswald. Mombaza (Mombasa) in the 1593 edition of Civitates Orbis Terrarum, not long before the Zimba assault. Art in public domain, courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Portugal arrived in East Africa (modern day Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya and Somalia) in 1496 as part of their larger plan to take control of the Indian Ocean and so the spice trade. They quickly conquered the existing states of the… ## [Serial Sunday: The Renaissance Man and the Strange New World, Part VIII](https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/serial-sunday-the-renaissance-man-and-the-strange-new-world-part-viii) _2026-08-09 · cepmurphywrites · Sea Lion Press_ By Ryan Fleming. Harry Bell had not slept in days. He was the sole survivor of the Brunswick, whose discovery of an unidentified continent in the South Pacific had meant quick (Harry hoped) death for all his shipmates, whether they had remained aboard or been in the first party ashore. Harry had survived, and he intended to keep it that way. It was that intent that kept him from sleeping. He had… ## [Tales From Development Hell: George Romero's Resident Evil](https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/tales-from-development-hell-george-romero-s-resident-evil) _2026-08-07 · cepmurphywrites · Sea Lion Press_ By Ryan Fleming. Romero directs Resident Evil.... 2's Japanese trailer. Screenshot from the 1997 Making Of video, uploaded to Youtube by the Residence of Evil channel. The zombie as it is understood in modern popular culture exists because of George A. Romero. Its ubiquity across popular culture owes a lot to video games of the 1990s, especially Resident Evil. The very first Resident Evil game was… ## [Why I Wrote... The Surly Bonds Series](https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/why-i-wrote-the-surly-bonds-series) _2026-08-04 · cepmurphywrites · Sea Lion Press_ By Tom Anderson. Thus far the Surly Bonds series consists of two books, The Surly Bonds of Earth and Well Met By Starlight. The third book in the series, a direct sequel to Well Met will shortly debut and is entitled On the Wings of the Morn. To explain what this series is about is – well, a long story in itself. In the world of science fiction, since the 1960s Star Trek has become so influential… ## [Serial Sunday: The Renaissance Man and the Strange New World, Part VII](https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/serial-sunday-the-renaissance-man-and-the-strange-new-world-part-vii) _2026-08-02 · cepmurphywrites · Sea Lion Press_ By Ryan Fleming. A gaggle of newly joined candy stripers, the more mobile patients, and even a few resident doctors all tried to sneak a look at the Renaissance Man when they heard he would be calling at their Bellevue Hospital that night. Charles Chance, the Renaissance Man himself, was all smiles and handshakes punctuated by the odd pithy one-liner or wink when he and his entourage arrived. A… ## [Stream Torrents & IPTV Instantly (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/MhTTKpp5kbZb) _2026-08-02 · **Sponsored**_ Search magnet links and stream movies, music, books, and live TV in-browser ## [Vignette: Shadow over the City](https://www.sealionpress.co.uk/post/vignette-shadow-over-the-city) _2026-07-31 · cepmurphywrites · Sea Lion Press_ By WM. Garrett Cothran On the Sea Lion Press Forums, we run a monthly Vignette Challenge. Contributors are invited to write short stories on a specific theme (changed monthly). The theme for the 97th contest was Megaprojects. The alarm rang with a bright, metallic insistence. It was a faint bluish color, its bell still stamped in looping Imperial script beneath a strip of government-issued German…