{"product_id":"9780575117228","title":"The Iron Dream","description":"\u003cp\u003eNorman 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 . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume contains his greatest work, \u003ci\u003eLord of the Swastika\u003c\/i\u003e: 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpinrad 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orion Publishing Group, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47074732867824,"sku":"9780575117228","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780575117228_p0.jpg?v=1763720461","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780575117228","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}