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American Nation-States
Guest post Daniel Bensen.What would North America look like if, for whatever reason, it had developed indigenous nation-states rather than federal states of colonists?This is a thought experiment a...
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Review: Silk Spectre by Darwyn Cooke and Amanda Conner
Guest post by Sean Korsgaard.As mentioned before, the Silk Spectre is the most overlooked character in Watchmen, kind of just glanced over, and the Before Watchmen title sought to provide some much...
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Review: The Comedian by Brian Azzarello
Guest post by Sean Korsgaard.Right off to bat, this will be the title that divides people the most, both for some of the directions – or lack thereof – that the story takes, as well as some of the...
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Weekly Update #109
Editor's NoteSo did I mention last month we reach 22,031 page views? That is the highest monthly page view count in The Update's history. Thank you to all of the contributors and fans who made this...
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2012 Sidewise Award Nominees Announced
This year's nominees for the Sidewise Award for Alternate History have been announced. The winners will be announced at LoneStarCon 3, this year's Worldcon, in San Antonio, Texas during the weekend of...
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New Releases 7/2/13
HardcoverChristian Nation: A Novel by Frederic C. RichDescription from Amazon.“They said what they would do, and we did not listen. Then they did what they said they would do.”So ends the first chapter...
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Winners of The Place of Dead Kings by Geoffrey Wilson
Well I have picked the two winners who will receive a copy of The Place of Dead Kings by Geoffrey Wilson. Sequel to a Land of Hope and Glory, the series is set in a world where the Indian Mutiny takes...
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Review: Ozymandias by Len Wein
Guest post by Sean Korsgaard.With the possible exception of the Minutemen series, the smartest man in the world is the one who benefits most from his Before Watchmen title, with the original Watchmen...
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Review: Nite Owl by J. Michael Straczynski
Guest post by Sean Korsgaard.This was, in many ways, the kind of output people feared Before Watchmen as a whole would resemble. The story is at once, uninteresting, often repulsing, and barely tied to...
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Weekly Update #110
Editor's NoteSo I realize now I need to rethink my reddit strategy. For those who don't know, The Update has their own subreddit at /r/ahwupdate/. I don't post to it often although I have gotten better...
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DBWI Writing Contest Winners
So it took me a while to get to this point, but I am now ready to announce the winners of the Double-Blind What If Writing Contest! Just to remind you all, this contest had three categories: fiction,...
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Review: The First Exchange Sampler & Companion by Dale Cozort
Guest post by Kieran Colfer.Imagine waking up one morning, and as you yawn and stretch you realize something; it's too quiet outside. You go to the window, open the curtains and at first everything...
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Review: Adrift on the Sea of Rains by Ian Sales
My goal of posting a review for all of the 2012 Sidewise nominated works this year got a huge shot in the arm when author Ian Sales was kind enough to contact me and send me a copy of his novella...
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Weekly Update #111
Editor's NoteReal life can suck. As much as I like my day job a part of me would like to make a leap to being a full-time professional writer. I think I can do it, but I don't think I can afford to...
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New Releases 7/16/13
PaperbackBeyond Dinocalypse by Chuck WendigDescription from Amazon.Thrown through time and space, Jet Black and his friends find themselves in a future that has changed everything they've ever known....
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What if the War of the Worlds had actually happened?
Guest post by Daniel Bensen.Seen here are the national boundaries of the generally recognized countries of Mars drawn over a false-color elevation map. Population centers are marked in red. Gray...
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Review: Rorschach by Brian Azzarello
Guest by Sean Korsgaard.Of all the characters introduced by Watchmen, perhaps the breakway character from both the original series and the film adaptation was the inkblot-masked nihilist Rorshach....
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Review: Doctor Manhattan by J. Michael Straczynski
Guest post by Sean Korsgaard.The sole superhuman of the Watchmen universe comes in the form of Doctor Manhattan, whose powers have both elevated him to essentially God-hood, and gradually sees him...
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Weekly Update #112
Editor's NoteQuick announcement: I am going to be on vacation all next week. This means I will not be posting on The Update. Sorry guys but I am taking a vacation from The Update as well as my day job....
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New Releases 7/23/13
HardcoverTwo Fronts by Harry TurtledoveDescription from Amazon.In 1942, two nations switch sides—and World War II takes a horrifying new course.In the real world, England and France allowed Adolf...
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