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Nordic History of Science Fiction

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John Christopher is an incredible talent many have never read  Supernatural fiction (as opposed to realistic or mundane fiction) includes two main branches, Fantasy and Science Fiction. The genres are related but distinct; Fantasy primarily consists of stories inspired by Nordic folklore and mythology, whereas Science Fiction is more concerned with the application of technology to the future. Fantasy literature and Nordic people go together like peanut butter and jelly, and will not be further elucidated here.  Non-Aryan influence in Fantasy is negligible, and for those looking for literary works for any age reader, Fantasy literature is abundant and affirmative. Science Fiction represents a more twisted skein; non-whites such as Hugo Gernsback and Isaac Asimov are present in the creation and propagation of Science Fiction. However, we do have an indigenous science fiction literature that is fully developed and able to be separated from that of foreigners.   Two of...

America's Nazis by Susan Canedy

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  Susan Canedy's book, America's Nazis, is a detailed history of the German American Bund.  The Bund is interesting as it was the largest National Socialist movement in the United States to date, with a top membership of 30,000. Their largest rally in Madison Square Garden had 20,000 attendees.  It also had the closest relationship to the actual NSDAP; leader Fritz Kuhn essentially transplanted every program of National Socialism into American form.   The book is a useful history. Canedy obtained some documents from Martin Kerr at the NSWPP, and conducted interviews with anonymous members of the Bund who were still alive at the time of writing (1990).  It would be great to see those full interviews instead of the still-biased presentation we see here. Learning about the Bund directly from former members would have been extraordinarily interesting.  They've had to live their entire lives in anonymous shadow - after a childhood spent camping, ...