The Iron Dream brings us the science fiction novel Hitler would have written if he had emigrated to the US in 1919 and become a hack science fiction writer – Lord of the Swastika!
In a post-nuclear holocaust era, we follow the rise to power of Feric Jaggar from ignominious exile amongst mutants and mongrels to absolute rule in the Fatherland of Truemen, having fought his way to power over the corrupt government.
Obsessed with tight black leather and huge crowds, he wows to destroy all mutant scum and defeat the cold, heartless superpowers of Zind le by the evil mind-controlling Dominators.
In Spinrad's acid etched satire the parallels between space opera, sword and sorcery and fascist wish-fulfilment are made explicit as you find yourself rooting for Jaggar, while realising his rise has sinister parallels with that of Hitler and the Nazi party.
„For thirty years Spinrad has been a prophet only intermittently honoured in the anglophone world. Now at… (tovább)
The Iron Dream brings us the science fiction novel Hitler would have written if he had emigrated to the US in 1919 and become a hack science fiction writer – Lord of the Swastika!
In a post-nuclear holocaust era, we follow the rise to power of Feric Jaggar from ignominious exile amongst mutants and mongrels to absolute rule in the Fatherland of Truemen, having fought his way to power over the corrupt government.
Obsessed with tight black leather and huge crowds, he wows to destroy all mutant scum and defeat the cold, heartless superpowers of Zind le by the evil mind-controlling Dominators.
In Spinrad's acid etched satire the parallels between space opera, sword and sorcery and fascist wish-fulfilment are made explicit as you find yourself rooting for Jaggar, while realising his rise has sinister parallels with that of Hitler and the Nazi party.
„For thirty years Spinrad has been a prophet only intermittently honoured in the anglophone world. Now at last, with one of his most passionate and entertaining pieces of polemic back in print, you can see why they love him in the country that welcomed so many of his great predecessors, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Joyce, Hammett and William Burroughs amongst them, long before they were recognised at home.”