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Availing himself of that durable literary device, time travel, Fry entangles Michael Young, history student at Cambridge University, in a scheme to prevent the birth of Adolf Hitler. An unwitting prey to dozens of the author's entertaining traps--yes, this is a funny novel, albeit an uneasily amusing one--the first trap being his desire to publish his thesis, sort of a "Hitler: The Early Years" written up as a novel. For help he turns to Professor Leo Zuckermann, physicist and son of an SS doctor. The professor burns to purge himself of this parentage, and happens to have invented a time machine; Young happens to have some male sterilization pills he stole from his ex-girlfriend, a geneticist. So they time-transport the pills to poison the wellwater of Adolf's would-be father. That works, but--shazaam!--both Young and Zuckermann inadvertently fall into the time machine. They separately reappear at Princeton University, circa 1996, where the world appears not to have heard of Adolf Hitler. History has, however, produced a Rudolf Glober, under whose aegis Zuckermann's father led a more "successful" career than under Hitler, so Young and Zuckermann must, once they reunite, reenter the time machine and restore history as it was. A simultaneously zany and serious yarn spinner, Fry creates here a bizarre but skillfully controlled alternative world, with the virtuoso pacing and tension that attract readers. Gilbert Taylor
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Would the world be better off if Hitler had never lived? British TV personality and novelist Fry (The Hippopotamus, 1995, etc.) inflates a speculative idyll into an overlong, glibly caustic--and often hilarious--social satire. Interfering with history is a shopworn science fiction conceit that, as everyone from H.G. Wells's Time Traveller to Captain Kirk of Star Trek has discovered, is not time well spent: The most absurd paradoxes (murdering your grandfather, etc.) must be resolved to leave everything more or less as it was before the story began. In his third novel, Fry fashions an elaborately contrived plot so that the nebbishy Michael Young, a snide, pop-culturequoting Cambridge University doctoral student in German history, will meet the guilt-ridden German physicist Leo Zuckermann (whose father was an Auschwitz physician) and use Zuckerman's fancy laptop time machine to drop infertility pills into Hitler's father's morning beer. Then, after some Spielbergian special effects, Young wakes up across the Atlantic to find that he's been circumcised and is now majoring in philosophy at a brutishly conservative Princeton. America is in a Cold War conflict with a German hegemony that spans most of Europe and Asia. In place of Hitler is Rudolf Gloder, a far more intelligent Nazi who encouraged his nation to develop atomic weapons in advance of the US, smashed Russia's Communist revolution, and found a way to make Jews persecute themselves. Young, determined to return the past to its untampered state, learns what history always teaches: Even in a world without Hitler, things can always be worse. An amusing, sophomoric, hyperbolic, academic send-up, timed to coincide with Fry's upcoming role in a film about Oscar Wilde. (Author tour) -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Dieses Buch ist wirklich ein Buch. Wenn man angefangen hat muss einem schon etwas sehr wichtiges dazwischenkommen (das Haus brennt, die Katze klemmt im Fenster oder das Bad steht unter Wasser), damit man es wieder aus der Hand legt. Frys Umgang mit Geschichte ist fantastisch. Er schreibt ohne einem ständig vor Augen zu halten wie wichtig es ist, sich betroffen zu fühlen und einem einzureden wieviel Verantwortung man selbst noch zu tragen hat. Andererseits ist er auch nicht verharmlosend oder respektlos. Fry hat meiner Meinung nach den perfekten Mittelweg gefunden, wie man 50 Jahre nach dem Holocaust auch darüber schreiben kann. Und er schreibt nunmal mit diesem unvergleichlichen Witz, der einen sogar in der U-Bahn oder im Hörsaal laut loslachen lässt. Dieser Roman ist allen zu empfehlen. Denen die sich nicht für Geschichte interessieren und ganz besonders denen, die sich dafür interessieren.
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What a book. All the usual Oscar Wilde flippancy, Evelyn Waugh waspishness and P.G. Wodehouse absurdity, cleverly guided by the pen of one of the world's sharpest wits plus, in this case, maybe just a touch of H.G. Wells thrown in for good measure.
The nub of the plot is that two Cambridge academics decide to reverse history and have Hitler 'unborn'. Simple enough, really! Unfortunately, of course, they don't foresee that the void left by a non-Hitler would have to be filled. Nature abhorrs a vacuum. Someone HAD to rise to power, in this case someone even worse - the timing and the circumstances in Europe pretty well guaranteed it.
History is changed, but the world doesn't turn out how they intended. Michael struggles in this new, disturbing world to find the physicist and to right the wrong, and along the way he finds love with another man. But will this love survive when they try to set the world right?
Sometimes fun, always intelligent, this novel can be called a sci-fi comedy, or just a highly imaginative book. It is rare to find a read that is this lighthearted and fun, yet profound enough to bring me to tears. Which is better, pain or oblivion? This book is clever on so many levels. But I still can't help but wonder what the world would have been like if Queen Victoria, rather than Hitler, was the one erased from our History.
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Making History is one of those books that takes a fascinating idea--What Hitler had not been born?--and wanders around wondering just what to do with it. Certainly the inital premise is compling, graduate student Mark Young and his *Jewish* teacher Zuckerman send sterilization tablets back to the water in Hitlers hometown, thus preventing his parents from conceiving him. With this act, the world changes--yet not all that much. Fry upsets the Great Man Idea of history by giving Hitler an understudy--another despot, Rudi Glober, who not only becomes a more effective Fuhrer but also embraces the *Jewish science* of physics Hitler rejected. The resulting Reich now dominates all Europe with its nuclear warheads--yet how is it different from a world in which Hitler won? The concept has been done elsewhere--most notably Fatherland--with stronger results. Fry is considering removing the most provocative man of the 20th century, yet he only replaces a wolf with a tiger. The time-travel concept, first pills, then a dead rat, are shot backward a hundred years, is mentioned, then dropped. The homosexual angle is almost silly: In the alternate world Mark Young finally meets his One True Love,--Stephen, a fellow student. This idea is not new, in other hands Stephen would simply be Stephanie. While it is good to see homo-love mentioned without the mandatory agonizing, in this case it almost distracts from the initial idea of Hitler. True, gays died in the death camps, but Gay Guy Steve is no different from a Jewish girl in this setting. Mark, his lover, and Dr.Zuckerman shift from world to world with little real upheaval; the alternate world is grim, yet I have seen far worse ones, and far better. While Fry pens an enjoyable read, he plays with marvelous ideas he then abandons in favor of his own playful agenda. A dog sled goes faster if one dog is allowed to lead, not let each one get a sniff along the way.
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Creative and witty alternative-history novel
A couple of years ago I read 'Geschichte machen' because I knew Mr. Fry from 'Blackadder', a show he appeared in with Rowan Atkinson, Hugh Laurie et al. Lesen Sie weiter...
Vor 10 Monaten von KalyanaMitrah veröffentlicht
Even if I wasn't majoring in history, I would love this book
Dieses Buch von Stephen Fry ist eins dieser Bücher, die man auch den letzten Seiten immer langsamer ließt um das Ende noch hinauszuzögern. Lesen Sie weiter...
Vor 21 Monaten von NRAHJ veröffentlicht
Comedy and horror perfectly combined
One of the best books I've ever read. It switches between the funnily narrated tale of a British university student and the horrors of German fascism. Very well done.
Veröffentlicht am 13. Juni 2007 von R. Schmidt
History meets science fiction
"Vorwärts in die Vergangenheit" hätte der Titel in Anlehnung an den Film "Zurück in die Zukunft" auch lauten können. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 7. Februar 2001 von Martin Ortmann
Clever idea couched in superb writing!
Stephen Fry's analysis of what might have happened if Hitler had not been at the helm of the Third Reich in WWII is brilliantly executed from a science fiction standpoint, but is... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 7. Juli 2000 von Spring Lea E. Henry
It starts with a dream . . .
Stephen Fry's third novel is an interesting and amusing (though not as frightening as he would have it seem) re-imagining of what would have happened had Hitler never been born. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 2. Juli 2000 von oh_pete
A Masterpiece!
What if hitler never existed? If you are willing to open your mind to the question, I guarantee this will be one of the best books you will ever read. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 22. Mai 2000 von B. E. Keown
one cool book!
i just finished reading stephen fry's 'making history' and loved it! it is a well-crafted book (delightful chapter titles) and has a bit of everything - history, science fiction,... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 18. Mai 2000 veröffentlicht
Nothing New in the World of Speculative Fiction
I didn't like the other Stephen Fry book I read, The Liar, but the premise of this one looked intriguing enough for me to overlook that black mark. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 11. Mai 2000 von A. Ross
What if...
A magnificent book, yet somewhat disturbing in its moral implications. The base thesis of this book is the question that historians must not ask,and do that eagerlly. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 9. April 2000 von sarit
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