Swastika night

Description:

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?”

subjects: Fiction, general,  Fiction,  History,  Fiction, alternative history,  Fiction, science fiction, general,  Nazis,  Alternative histories (Fiction), English,  English Science fiction,  English Feminist fiction,  collection:otherwise_tiptree_award=retrohonor,  Lesbians in literature

Places: Germany

Times: 1933-1945