Valerie Estelle Frankel teaches at Mission College and San Jose City College.

The ulti­mate strength in this text is that it serves as a com­pan­ion to mul­ti­ple pieces of sci­ence fic­tion and fan­ta­sy, while also focus­ing on a dis­tinc­tive­ly post-Holo­caust the­mat­ic that arrives most clear­ly in the seg­ment dis­cussing post-apoc­a­lyp­tic works. The author’s obser­va­tions are well sup­port­ed by evi­dence cit­ed direct­ly from the source mate­r­i­al. This strat­e­gy and pre­sen­ta­tion keeps both the analy­sis ground­ed.

• History? How the Hell Did That Happen? by Jack DannIntroductionChapter 1: Major FranchisesChapter 2: Silver and Bronze Age ComicsChapter 3: Postwar Fantasy SubgenresChapter 4: Humor from Spaceballs to SleeperChapter 5: Science Fiction TropesChapter 6: Alternate HistoryChapter 7: The Postwar WorldChapter 8: The Emerging Israeli GenresConclusion

Valerie Estelle Frankel teaches at Mission College and San Jose City College.

The ulti­mate strength in this text is that it serves as a com­pan­ion to mul­ti­ple pieces of sci­ence fic­tion and fan­ta­sy, while also focus­ing on a dis­tinc­tive­ly post-Holo­caust the­mat­ic that arrives most clear­ly in the seg­ment dis­cussing post-apoc­a­lyp­tic works. The author’s obser­va­tions are well sup­port­ed by evi­dence cit­ed direct­ly from the source mate­r­i­al. This strat­e­gy and pre­sen­ta­tion keeps both the analy­sis ground­ed.

• History? How the Hell Did That Happen? by Jack DannIntroductionChapter 1: Major FranchisesChapter 2: Silver and Bronze Age ComicsChapter 3: Postwar Fantasy SubgenresChapter 4: Humor from Spaceballs to SleeperChapter 5: Science Fiction TropesChapter 6: Alternate HistoryChapter 7: The Postwar WorldChapter 8: The Emerging Israeli GenresConclusion

Valerie Estelle Frankel teaches at Mission College and San Jose City College.

The ulti­mate strength in this text is that it serves as a com­pan­ion to mul­ti­ple pieces of sci­ence fic­tion and fan­ta­sy, while also focus­ing on a dis­tinc­tive­ly post-Holo­caust the­mat­ic that arrives most clear­ly in the seg­ment dis­cussing post-apoc­a­lyp­tic works. The author’s obser­va­tions are well sup­port­ed by evi­dence cit­ed direct­ly from the source mate­r­i­al. This strat­e­gy and pre­sen­ta­tion keeps both the analy­sis ground­ed.

• History? How the Hell Did That Happen? by Jack DannIntroductionChapter 1: Major FranchisesChapter 2: Silver and Bronze Age ComicsChapter 3: Postwar Fantasy SubgenresChapter 4: Humor from Spaceballs to SleeperChapter 5: Science Fiction TropesChapter 6: Alternate HistoryChapter 7: The Postwar WorldChapter 8: The Emerging Israeli GenresConclusion