On The Sea: Naval Alternate History (Arc of Ares)

You seldom hear of the fleets except when there’s trouble, and then you hear a lot. The sea. Bearer of commerce, fertilizer for empires, and a battlefield where the environment itself is set to kill the combatants. From the galleys of ancient Greece to the deadly, silent murder machines of the nuclear age, Mankind has set across the oceans to visit great harm upon distant shores. On The Sea brings you alternate endings to these voyages, with characters and points of divergence as varied as the waters themselves. Prefer your sea tales in an era of wooden ships, coal smoke, and iron men?Dragon Award Winner Sarah Hoyt, 2025 Imadjinn Winner Dan Kemp, and Day Al-Mohamed will give you all the splinters, canvas, and cannonballs you could ask for. Like your torpedoes to be self-propelled rather than damned and your fleet actions wreathed in coal smoke? Veteran authors Joelle Presby, Rob Howell, and Philip Wohlrab bring you very different endings to the Spanish American War and World War I. “I don’t know, I’m more a fan of Long Lances than Black Lung…”Dear reader, On The Sea hasso many Imperial Japanese Navy cameos, there should be a Chrysanthemum on the cover.