Iron Dream,the

mass market paperback

English language

Published May 1, 1986 by Spectra.

ISBN:
9780553252897
OCLC Number:
13530480

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4 stars (1 review)

Norman Spinrad's 1972 alternate history, gives us both a metafictional what-if novel and a cutting satire of one of the 20th century's most evil regimes . . .

In 1919, a young Austrian artist by the name of Adolf Hitler immigrated to the United States to become an illustrator for the pulp magazines and, eventually, a Hugo Award-winning SF author.

This volume contains his greatest work, Lord of the Swastika: an epic post-apocalyptic tale of genetic 'trueman' Feric Jagger and his quest to purify the bloodline of humanity by ruthlessly slaughtering races of the genetically impure - a quest Norman Spinrad expertly skewers through ironic imagery and over-the-top rhetoric.

Spinrad hoped to expose some unpalatable truths about much of SF and Fantasy literature and its uncomfortable relationship with fascist ideologies - an aim that was not always apparent to neo-fascist readers. In order to make his aims clear to the …

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4 stars

What if Hitler had written science fiction?
This is the question that Norman Spinrad asks in The Iron Dream, and one I can't say I'd ever thought of exploring the answer to before. This story within a story contains an entertaining, homoerotic exploration of a post-Nuclear future where the quest for human genomic purity is centred by a Hitler self-insert. The satire of Nazism simply doesn't miss, even as we have passed the Cold War context in which it was written. Highly recommend giving it a shot if weird/bizarro fiction ever floats your boat.

Full review here: specual.me/posts/theirondream/

Subjects

  • Science Fiction - General
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  • Fiction - Science Fiction
  • Science Fiction