"We all live in a science fiction world now," says one of Arnott's characters, more disappointed than excited.
Malmont celebrates science fiction for its ability to bridge "what is known and what is about to be possible."įor Arnott, everything comes down to the adjustments made over time "in what and how people believed." With the advent of computers, jet travel and atomic energy, fantasy became reality. Oddly enough, this is the second recent novel to feature Heinlein, Hubbard and other early sci-fi stars as fictional characters in a tale involving Nazism, following Paul Malmont's "The Astounding, The Amazing and the Unknown" (2011). Zagorski ends up flying missions over Germany on the way to marrying an actress and writing his futuristic satire "American Gnostic." Mary-Lou becomes an Ida Lupino-like director of film noirs, offering a very different take on the hidden truths that define who we are. He is smitten with one of the few females making her mark in sci-fi, Mary-Lou Gunderson, but she is obsessed with Parsons. Ron Hubbard, with his futuristic novelette "Lords of the Black Sun," in which the Third Reich rules the earth and is looking to expand its domain. In the early '40s, living in Los Angeles, he drew attention in pulp circles, including future Scientology founder L. The central fictional character is sci-fi writer Larry Zagorski, who looks back at his past from 2011. Hiroshima and Nagasaki are in the mix, along with the San Francisco with flowers in its hair. Real-life rocket scientist Jack Parsons, who preaches the teachings of British occultist Aleister Crowley and dies in a strange accident, is linked to a victim of the Jonestown Massacre. Hitler henchman Rudolf Hess, who bizarrely flies to Scotland in the middle of the night with thoughts of staging peace discussions, is tied to a hedonistic pop star in '80s England who converts to Scientology.
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