Joe Steele

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2015
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Alternative history dystopia with an American dictator followed by an even worse dictatorship led by J. Edgar Hoover as the Director of the FBI, who was the actual Director from its founding in 1935 until 1972, having been the Director of its predecessor from 1924 to 1935.

Published Date

2015

Publisher
DAW Books
Place Published
New York
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2015 Turtledove, Harry [Norman] (b. 1949). Joe Steele. New York: ROC/Penguin. Based on the story “Joe Steele” in Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian. Ed. Janis Ian and Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick (New York: DAW Books, 2001), 489-504. The story is based on a verse from Ian’s “god and the fbi.” Public

Alternative history dystopia with an American dictator followed by an even worse dictatorship led by J. Edgar Hoover as the Director of the FBI, who was the actual Director from its founding in 1935 until 1972, having been the Director of its predecessor from 1924 to 1935.

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Based on the story “Joe Steele” in Stars: Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian. Ed. Janis Ian and Mike [Michael Diamond] Resnick (New York: DAW Books, 2001), 489-504. The story is based on a verse from Ian’s “god and the fbi.”  

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(b. 1949)