The Iron Dream

by Norman Spinrad

mass market paperback

English language

Published May 1, 1986 by Spectra.

ISBN:: 978-0-553-25289-7
OCLC Number:: 13530480

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.

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.

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 hard-of-understanding, Spinrad added an imaginary critical analysis by a fictional literary scholar, Homer Whipple, of New York University.

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Chris reviewed The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad

None

3 stars

Massively OTT thing that would probably count as Bizarro if it had been published in a later decade, postulates that A.H. was an author of pulp fiction and postulated - in some kind of post-nuclear world - an uebermensch rebellion in keeping with the later excesses of Warhammer 40K which probably borrowed a lot from it. Memorable for its existence alone.

ospalh reviewed The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad

Too long

2 stars

Congratulations, Mr Spinrad. You can write disgusting fascist dreck. That it is faked doesn’t mean it’s not disgusting. So, yeah, important point to make about the stuff Cambell had published, but really, wouldn’t a short story have been enuf to make that point‽

Steen Christiansen reviewed The Iron Dream by Norman Spinrad

Review of 'Iron Dream,the' on 'Goodreads'

3 stars

Deeply complicated book that shines a light on the structural racism of much SFF yet still depends on the narrative desire of the very form it parodies.