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    Thor Meets Captain America
    Thor Meets Captain America
    Thor Meets Captain America
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    Thor Meets Captain America

    By David Brin

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    Thor Meets Captain America offers an alternate history exploring a chilling scenario behind the Holocaust. In this parallel world, the Nazis narrowly avoid defeat in World War II when they are championed by the gods of the Norse Pantheon. At a dramatic turn, Loki joins the Allies and they prepare a last-ditch raid to blow up Valhalla. With an afterword by the author.

    This novella, nominated for a Hugo Award in 1987, was later expanded into an award winning graphic novel, The Life Eaters, with artwork by Scott Hampton.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Brin
    Release dateJun 24, 2011
    ISBN9781458118141
    Thor Meets Captain America
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    David Brin

    David Brin is an astrophysicist whose international-bestselling novels include Earth, Existence, Startide Rising, and The Postman, which was adapted into a film in 1998. Brin serves on several advisory boards, including NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts program, or NIAC, and speaks or consults on topics ranging from AI, SETI, privacy, and invention to national security. His nonfiction book about the information age, The Transparent Society, won the Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library Association. Brin’s latest nonfiction work is Polemical Judo. Visit him at www.davidbrin.com.

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      Thor Meets Captain America - David Brin

      Thor Meets Captain America

      A Novella

      By

      David Brin

      ***

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2011 David Brin

      1.

      Loki's dwarf rolled its eyes and moaned pitifully as the sub leveled off at periscope depth. With stubby fingers the gnarled, neckless creature pulled its yellow-stained beard and stared up at the creaking pipes.

      A thing of dark forest depths and hidden caves, Chris Turing thought as he watched the dwarf.

      It wasn't meant for this place.

      Only men would choose such a way to die, in a leaking steel coffin, on a hopeless attempt to blow up Valhalla.

      But then, it wasn't likely that Loki's dwarf had been given much choice in being here.

      Why, Chris wondered suddenly -- not for the first time.

      Why do such creatures exist? Wasn't evil doing well enough in the world before they came to help it along?

      The submarine's engines rumbled and Chris shrugged aside the thought. Imagining a world without Aesir and their servants in it was as hard as remembering a time without war.

      Chris sat strapped in a crash seat listening to the swishing of icy Baltic water just behind a tissue-thin bulkhead -- and watched the gnome huddle atop a crate of hydrogen bomb parts. It drew its clublike feet up away from the sloshing brine on the deck, scrunching higher on the black box. Another moan escaped the dwarf as the Razorfin's periscope went up, and more water gurgled in through pressure relief lines.

      Major Marlowe looked up from the assault rifle he was reassembling for the thirtieth time. What's eating the damn dwarf now? the marine officer asked.

      Chris shook his head.

      Search me. The fact that he's out of his element, maybe? After all, the ancient Norse thought of the deep as a place for sunken boats and fishes.

      I thought you were some sort of expert on the Aesir. And you aren't sure why the thing is foaming at the mouth?

      I said I don't know. Why don't you go over and ask him yourself?

      Marlowe gave Chris a sour glance. "Sidle up to that stench and ask Loki's damn dwarf to explain its feelings? Hmph. I'd rather spit in an Aesir's eye."

      From the left side of the cabin, Zap O'Leary leaned out and grinned at Marlowe.

      Dig it, daddyo. There's an Aes over by the scope, dope. Be my guest. Write him runes in his spitoon.

      The eccentric technician gestured toward the Navy men clustered around the sub's periscope. Next to the Skipper stood a hulking figure clad in furs and leather, towering over the submariners.

      Marlowe blinked back at O'Leary in bewilderment. The marine seemed less offended than confused. What did he say? he asked Chris.

      Chris wished he weren't seated between the two.

      "Zap suggests that you test it by spitting in Loki's eye."

      Marlowe grimaced. O'Leary might as well have suggested he stick his hand into a scram-jet engine. One of the marines

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