Katharine Burdekin
Paperback | Pages: 208 pages Rating: 3.62 | 1712 Users | 213 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Swastika Night |
| ISBN: | 0935312560 (ISBN13: 9780935312560) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Munich (München),2609(Germany) |
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Published in 1937, twelve years before Orwell's 1984, Swastika Night projects a totally male-controlled fascist world that has eliminated women as we know them. Women are breeders, kept as cattle, while men in this post-Hitlerian world are embittered automatons, fearful of all feelings, having abolished all history, education, creativity, books, and art. The plot centers on a “misfit” who asks, “How could this have happened?”Specify Based On Books Swastika Night
| Title | : | Swastika Night |
| Author | : | Katharine Burdekin |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 208 pages |
| Published | : | 1985 by The Feminist Press at CUNY (first published 1937) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Science Fiction. Dystopia. Alternate History. Classics |
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Ratings: 3.62 From 1712 Users | 213 ReviewsPiece Based On Books Swastika Night
Hitler is worshipped as a god and not a single book of history remains to contradict his story...or does it?This was written in 1937, and is as remarkable a bit of prognostication as I have ever read. It suffers from excessive explaining through dialogue, clunky characters, weird ideas about women being fundamentally different than men (even once you get past the Handmaid's Tale-type elements), and general preachiness. But yowza what it got right, and ouch, how much of it feels relevant today.It says Murray Constantine on the cover but its sort of an open secret that Constantine was a pseudonym of Katherine Burdekin, so I have to wonder why Gollancz chose to use the pseudonym on the SF Masterwork edition. I mean, no one remembers either name these days, so it makes no fucking difference. Use her real name, make it obvious the writer was female. Anyway, the story is set 700 years after the Axis won WWII, and and Europe is all Greater Germany. People well, men as women are considered
This purchase reminded me of the importance and power of actual bookshops as part of our book buying experience. I would never have read this book if I had not fallen on it by accident while browsing the science fiction shelves of an actual shop. My first reaction was: what the heck is this book that I have never heard of, with such a title, and such a cover, doing be reprinted in the SF Masterworks series? Then I read the blurb on the back. A future 700 years hence where the Nazis rule half the
Swastika Night envisions a world thousands of years in the future in which the Nazis have joint world dominance with the Japanese and the past before Hitler has been obliterated from collective memory. It is a static world in which Hitler is worshiped as a blond, blue-eyed Viking-god that was not born of woman but exploded, where Knights rule small feudal societies, where the cult of manliness dominates to such an extent that boys are taken as lovers and women are hairless cattle kept in cages,
Burdekin tells of a chilling world hundred of years after the triumph of Nazism -where Europe is plunged into a new dark age, ruled by a brutal elite and, above all, where men are celebrated for their tough violence and women reduced to breeders. Indeed, here lies in fact its main interest: no matter how striking and clever such an alternate history is (the tabula rasa, the violence, Hitlerism having turned into a cult and, the whole society having collapsed to the level of that new feudal-like
A lot of talk, a lot of interesting ideas, not a lot of action. Look elsewhere for excitement because this book is not about that. Instead, this is a world where nothing exciting happens because deviations from normal have almost been bred out of the species.In a future, hundreds of years after Hitler won the war and conquered most of the world (the Japanese got the other half), there is no technological advancement, no science, no exploration, no new ideas, no writing, no new music, no
Swastika Night is a dialogue driven and philosophically laden tale of a pilgrimage of an Englishman named Alfred to Germany, the center of the Holy Nazi Empire. This fusion of alternate history and dystopian fiction is set six hundred years after the German victory over the Allies where Hitler is worshiped as an Aryan god. During his pilgrimage, Alfred encounters a Nazi knight who has doubts about the effects of holding women to an animal-like status. This book should not be typecast as a
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