Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Thursday, 5 April 2012
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Friday, 9 July 2010
The Iron Dream is a metafictional 1972 alternate history novel by Norman Spinrad.
The book has a nested narrative that tells a story within a story. On the surface, the novel presents an unexceptional science fiction action tale entitled Lord of the Swastika. This is a pro-fascist narrative written by an alternate history version of Adolf Hitler, who in this timeline emigrated from Germany to America in 1919 after the Great War, and used his modest artistic skills to become first a pulp-science fiction illustrator and later a successful science fiction writer, telling lurid, purple-prosed adventure stories under a thin SF-veneer. The nested narrative is followed by a faux scholarly analysis by a fictional literary critic, Homer Whipple, of New York University.
One of the key visual elements in the book with in a book (and often used by the various cover artists of the novel) features a Nazi motorcycle gang called the Black Avengers and their leader Stag Stopa.
The (life-hating halfwits) of the American Nazi Party put the book on its recommended reading list,...despite the obvious satirical intent of the work. In Spinrad's own words:
"To make damn sure that even the historically naive and entirely unselfaware reader got the point, I appended a phony critical analysis of Lord of the Swastika, in which the psychopathology of Hitler's saga was spelled out by a tendentious pedant in words of one syllable.......Almost everyone got the point..."Read more...
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
Saturday, 3 April 2010
"Akorn rides a sport bike. He likes them because they handle well and he likes how nimble they can be. Akorn has a different riding style than his friends. However, his love for motorcycling is the same." written and illustrated by Paul Jamiol. Via: Shinya KimuraRead more...
Monday, 15 March 2010
Saturday, 13 March 2010
Daniel Sauvage et Françoise. Gallimard. 1959. Scootering around Mediterranean sea. Via: Its Deadlicious
Sunday, 28 February 2010
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