Guest post by Kieran Colfer. If books are food for the brain, then a short story collection is like a buffet table. Small, bite-sized por...

Friend of The Update Matthew Quinn has a new short story collection out, Flashing Steel , featuring many of his alternate history sho...

Guest post Kieran Colfer. Early 1940, somewhere in northern France: You sit at the bottom of your foxhole, nervously checking the magaz...

Guest post by Kieran Colfer. Imagine waking up one morning, and as you yawn and stretch you realize something; it's too quiet outside...

Guest post by Kieran Colfer . The subject of genetic engineering is one that occasionally rises to the surface of public consciousness be...

In the spirit of full disclosure, The Update will be reviewing Island 731  by  Jeremy Robinson , author of SecondWorld . Here is a descrip...

Guest post by Kieran Colfer. It was a familiar refrain from the political left all the way though the Bush years and ever since: "Ev...

Friend of The Update, Guy Saville , has a new hardcover and e-book edition of his novel The Afrika Reich   coming out on February 12, 2013...

[This article appeared in Time magazine, May 13, 2008] As we look forward to tomorrow's joint celebrations of the 60th anniversa...

Guest post by Kieran Colfer. For most people, the Americas between the times of Columbus and George Washington are truly a Terra Incognit...

Guest post by Kieran Colfer. Hollywoodland, 1940. The age of the "Talkies" is over. Just like talking pictures replaced the s...

Guest post by Kieran Colfer. Zombie books these days are a lot like zombies themselves: at first you can just make out a single figure lu...

In early 2012 HarperCollins Publishers Publishing Director, Shona Martyn, and Head of Digital, Mark Higginson, gathered together a small ...