I just got this in the mail yesterday:
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I just got this in the mail yesterday:
http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/c4/c20326.jpg
I have recently finished reading Night Dogs by Kent Anderson and I like it. It is a book that newer will be translated to Swedish, it’s simply to disturbing. I found the book from being recommended and reading Sympathy for the Devil, a book about the Vietnam War by the same author.
Night Dogs is about crime/police in Portland Oregon USA in the seventies. But it is more than the regular crime novel. I think it is a piece of literature. And yes, the author is both ex Special Forces in Vietnam and a police officer in Portland.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Night-Dogs-K...8620033&sr=1-1
I'm reading Man in the Dark, the latest novel by one of my favourite authors, Paul Auster (who unfortunately is a NYC Jew, but that's not his own fault).
Not as good as The Brooklyn Follies from a few years ago, but still .... okay.
Next is Linnunaivot ("Bird Brain") by Finnish science fiction author Johanna Sinisalo.
http://www.faber.co.uk/site-media/on...80x450_q85.jpg
Why not try Norman Spinrad's The Iron Dream next? ;)
Quote:
This is a novel that is in many ways unique in science fiction. It's an alternate history within an alternate history. Spinrad postulates a world that is almost entirely communist-dominated, where Adolf Hitler did not in fact rise to power in Germany in the 1930's, but instead emigrated to the United States a decade before, becoming an illustrator for the SF pulps, then a popular SF novelist in his own right.
The bulk of The Iron Dream comprises the complete text of Hitler's final, posthumously published novel Lord of the Swastika. That story concerns a young, genetically pure "trueman" named Feric Jaggar who lives in an alternate Earth which has suffered thermonuclear war and whose population is mostly made up of mutants and the evil, telepathic "Doms," whose agenda is to infiltrate the idyllic haven of Heldon (the fatherland of the Truemen) and corrupt its genetically pure populace. Jaggar was born outside Heldon itself (like Hitler, a German born in Austria), and upon reaching manhood he travels to Heldon to pronounce his genetic purity and claim his legal citizenship.
But no sooner has Jaggar crossed the border than he discovers the horrible subhumans have made greater headway than he realized, and in almost no time at all, Jaggar attracts a fanatical following of angry Truemen and founds the Knights of the Swastika. Massive rallies follow, and Jaggar's hereditary right of leadership is proven to the masses by the fact that he alone is able to wield the legendary Truncheon of Held (like only Arthur could wield Excalibur, you see). Thenceforth, we witness the ghastly pageantry as millions of loyal Truemen follow their fearless leader on his quest to destroy all genetically impure peoples in their path.
after eldritch reminded me (at the nordish portal) -
my copy was unboxed
and re-read:
magnificent!
totally enthralling!one of spinrad's most impressive accomplishments.
http://www.sfreviews.net/large_covers/iron_dream.jpg*Quote:
Originally Posted by norman spinrad
- The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
- The Doctrine of Awakening
- Metaphysics of War
- The Indo-Europeans
- Heathen Imperialism
- The Devil's Guard
- Three Aspects of the Jewish Problem
- Bolshevism from Moses to Lenin
- Action! Race Wars to Door Wars
- Searching For Vedic India
- The Ancient City: A Study of the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome
And a number of other books, actually. I read a lot.
I'm reading Erik Wallin's "Ragnarök", about the fighting on the eastern front in the winter and spring of 1945, from the point of view of a Swedish volunteer in the SS, himself.
As there are many previously unseen photos from that time, and an extensive list of other Swedish volunteers in SS, Organisation Todt, and Wehrmacht (!), this is priceless. It is invaluable information. It's been translated to German, but not to English, as far as I know. Unfortunately.
I'm presently reading The Master Plan: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust by Heather Pringle, and Steel Inferno: 1st SS Panzer Corps in Normandy by Michael Reynolds.