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I had this book when I was a kid and let it go. Recently I found it in a lot of books from a yard sale. My god I could not believe that book was in a box of trashy westerns and such.

It can be a hard book to find and I know itwas controversial, which means tuoidmpeolle didnct understand it.

Anyone else here ever read it?

Yes. I read it many years ago and can't remember the whole plot.

It was a parody of SF Nazism by Norman Spinrad.

I think your cogitators were breaking down in that second sentence!

Honestly I'd never heard of this but enjoy retro sci-fi especially those with something to say about the real world so I might give it a read over Christmas.
It does sound like the premise is better than the book itself though.

 Kroem wrote:
I think your cogitators were breaking down in that second sentence!

Honestly I'd never heard of this but enjoy retro sci-fi especially those with something to say about the real world so I might give it a read over Christmas.
It does sound like the premise is better than the book itself though.

the book is....something else. I mean it manages to be pretty unique.

Premise:

In the 1920's Adolf hitler emigrates to america and makes a living as an illustrator for hack SF pulp magazines. He eventually learns enough English to start writing hack pulp sf. The irton dream is a novel within a novel, it's Hitler's SF "masterpiece" about a post nuclear war earth contaminated by radiation and plagued by mutants and monsters, while only opne nation remains truly pure. Along comes a blonde haired, blue eyed natural born leader to save humanity, conquer the earth and eliminate the subhuman mutant population.

So it's a twisted version of the real events leading up to ww2 and ww2 itself written as a fairly cheapl and poorly written conan-esque sf/fantasy novel by adolf hitler, with a scathing review afterwards.

It's really a slam on hitler, nazism and germany for letting it happen.

You'll like the book better if you have a good historical knowledge of the nazi party, so you'll get who the characters are, particularly stag stopa. If you know what "the night of the long knives" was you'll really get it.