Killing Baby Hitler Michael Tomasky 9781682194751

Time travel exists. The world is falling apart. And someone has a plan.

In the year 2141, the planet is ruled by billionaires, democracy is a relic, the environment is collapsing, and Illinois is home to thirty-foot alligators. When a ragtag team of scientists discovers the secret to time travel, they set their sights on history's most infamous villain: baby Adolf Hitler.

The mission doesn't go quite as planned.

Because rewriting history is never simple. Instead of preventing the rise of fascism, they trigger a bizarre new timeline in which Hitler grows up in America, editing one of the country's most hateful newspapers, and history warps in strange and unsettling ways. What begins as a darkly funny scheme to fix the past spirals into a mind-bending journey across centuries, as the time travelers confront unintended consequences, shifting timelines, and a future that may be even worse than the one they left behind.

Part sci-fi thriller, part biting satire, Killing Baby Hitler is Michael Tomasky's first work of fiction-a wildly original novel that skewers power, questions the logic of hindsight, and reminds us that the present may be the hardest time of all to change. Bold, provocative, and disturbingly plausible, it's a time-travel tale like no other.

Michael Tomasky was born and raised in Morgantown, West Virginia, the son of a trial lawyer and a schoolteacher. He earned a degree in journalism from West Virginia University and a master's in political science from NYU. His career began in New York, where he worked at The Village Voice and New York magazine before relocating to Washington, D.C. in 2003. Tomasky has served as editor of The American Prospect, helped launch the U.S. edition of The Guardian, and currently edits both The New Republic and Democracy: A Journal of Ideas. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and many other publications. He is the author of five nonfiction books and one nonfiction e-book. Killing Baby Hitler is his first work of fiction-at least the first one he meant to write.

"...fabulous in every sense, a super-smart romp through the history-histories--of the last and next century or so...fun, thought-provoking, Kurt Vonnegut-Dr. Who-Connie Willis-Douglas Adams kind."
-Kurt Andersen

"Savagely funny, unexpected, creative, inventive-and it really explains the dark times we live in."
-Molly Jong-Fast