Missing good space opera? Intergalactic adventures, interstellar intrigue, ancient aliens, sentient spaceships and space battles in a fun, fulfilling book? Here’s a good read that’ll scratch that itch.
Hailed by Michael Moorcock, Harlan Ellison et al, Hitler’s science-fantasy book is only available thanks to Norman Spinrad’s The Iron Dream, which comes with a scholarly afterword by NYU’s Homer Whipple.
The list of books I’d recommend to someone who wants to start reading sci-fi has now ben updated, with this tale from a master storyteller telling a different kind of sci-fi story.
Scientist. World-renowned astrophysicist. Winner of the Sahitya Akademi award. Tireless populariser of science. And an immensely talented writer of science fiction.