Watchmen

Top Listed and Most Read Books lists. So when I found the omnibus at Powell's on sale, I got it, and wasn't disappointed. It's a dark, gritty graphic novel about superheroes and the cold war in an alternate U.S. where Nixon is still president in 1985 and Gorbachev isn't dismantling the Soviet Union. Tension is incredibly high and the only thing that keeps the cold war from turning hot is the existence of one of the Watchmen. While reading this, you have to remember it was written in 1985, and that it's an alternate world, otherwise, you won't get the anxiety of the population. I remember that time, and I got the intensity of it. This book won a 1988 Hugo for "Other Forms."

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