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Series: Misc
Genre: SF
ISBN: 0942979966
Pages: 209 pages
Publisher: Livingston Press
Price: 14.95
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The Severed Wing by Martin J. Gidron

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Typically, alternate history/universe novels offer a relatively happy version of history: what if Babbage had been able to perfect his difference engine and make computers readily available in Victorian England? What if Texas had declared itself a nation under Sam Houston? This novel, too, offers such a delightful excursion—momentarily. For the novel’s premise—that World War I ended much sooner, thereby avoiding the harsh Versailles Treaty, which thereby avoided the rise of Nazi Germany and its Holocaust—is fated to be only a temporary vision in young Janusz Spiegelman’s mind. The world Janusz inhabits is one that might have been, had millions of Jews not perished, one that would have been filled with their progeny. But this world is disappearing; it is daily returning to the grim reality of the Holocaust. In grim proof, every day in Janusz’s life sees more of his Jewish co-workers, friends, and acquaintances disappear; more Jewish establishments disappear—vanish completely. As we share Janusz’s harrowing, surreal experience, we are once more reminded of the vastness of the Holocaust.