Zigeuner (short story)

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"Zigeuner"
Short story by Harry Turtledove
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre(s)Science fiction, alternate history
Publication
Published inAsimov's Science Fiction (September/October 2017 issue)
The Best of Harry Turtledove
Publication typePrint
Published in EnglishAugust 2017

"Zigeuner" is a science fiction short story by Harry Turtledove,[1] first published in the September/October issue of Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine in August, 2017.[2] It was reprinted in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Thirty-Fifth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. St. Martin's, 2018.[3] It won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History for best short form work in 2017.[4] It would also be reprinted in Turtledove's short-story collection The Best of Harry Turtledove in 2021.[5]

Plot

The story is set in October 1944 during a different version of

Miklos Horthy with Ferenc Szálasi. Stieglitz is hopeful that Szálasi and his Arrow Cross Party will be motivated to fight off the Red Army, which has just crossed the country's eastern border and launched the Budapest offensive. In the meantime, Stieglitz is tasked with rounding up a village of Romani people (called Zigeuner in German), in western Hungary, consistent with the Nazi Party's real life efforts to exterminate the Roma
.

The nature of this alternate timeline is revealed when a Hungarian driver describes

homosexuals
are the focus of Hitler's wrath.

The story ends with the whole Romani village being deported. The narration reveals that Stieglitz is actually a

field rabbi
, who reminds Stieglitz that their people have been made to suffer as much as the Romani have, and that Stieglitz could have just as easily wound up on the train. Stieglitz angrily threatens the rabbi, and then goes about his business.

Award Nomination

Zigeuner won the 2017 Sidewise Award for Alternate History Short Form award.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Uchronia: Zigeuner". www.uchronia.net.
  2. ^ "Penny Publications : This index covers volume 41 of Asimov's Science Fiction magazine, January through December 2017" (PDF). Asimovs.com. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
  3. ISBN 9781250164643
    – via Google Books.
  4. ^ "Sidewise Short Form Award". Locusmag.com. 20 August 2018.
  5. ^ "Steven H. Silver.com: Harry Turtledove short stories". www.stevenhsilver.com.

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