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Brad Linaweaver

тАЬMoon of Ice,тАЭ Brad LinaweaverтАЩs contribution to this volume, was a Nebula finalist story in
1982, and was later expanded into the successful novel of the same name. He has worked almost
exclusively in the alternate history subgenre, producing stories such as тАЬDestination: Indies,тАЭ an
alternate telling of Christopher ColumbusтАЩs journey across the Atlantic, and тАЬUnmerited Favor,тАЭ
which takes a more militant approach to the story of Jesus ChristтАЩs life. He is also the author of
the novelsClownface, The Land Beyond Summer, andSliders: The Novel. Winner of the Prometheus
Award in 1989, he lives and works in Los Angeles, California.




MOON OF ICE

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
- NIETZSCHE,Beyond Good and Evil

To all doubts and questions, the new man of the first German Empire has only one
answer: Nevertheless, I will!
-ALFRED ROSENBERG,The Myth of the Twentieth Century

I have seen the man of the future; he is cruel; I am frightened by him.
-ADOLF HITLER TOHERMANNRAUSCHNING

ENTRIES FROM THE DIARY

OF DR. JOSEPH GOEBBELS, NEW BERLIN

- Translated into English by HILDA GOEBBELS



APRIL 1965
TODAY I ATTENDED the state funeral for Adolf Hitler. They asked me to give the eulogy. It wouldnтАЩt
have been so bothersome except that Himmler pulled himself out of his thankful retirement to advise me
on all the things I mustnтАЩt say. The old fool still believes that we are laying the foundation for a religion.
Acquainted as he is with my natural skepticism, he never ceases to worry that I will say something in
public not meant for the consumption of the masses. It is a pointless worry on his part; not even early
senility should enable him to forget that I am the propaganda expert. Still, I do not question his insistence
that he is in rapport with what the masses feel most deeply. I leave such matters to one who is uniquely
qualified for the task.

I suppose that I was the last member of the entourage to see Hitler alive. Speer had just left, openly
anxious to get back to his work with the Von Braun team. In his declining years he has taken to involving
himself full-time with the space program. This question of whether the Americans or we will reach the
moon first seems to me a negligible concern. I am convinced by our military experts that the space
program that really matters is in terms of orbiting platforms for the purpose of global intimidation. Such a
measure seems entirely justified if we are to give theF├╝hrer his thousand-year Reich (or something even
close).