Joe Steele (novel)

Joe Steele is an alternate history novel by Harry Turtledove, first published by ROC Books/New American Library in hardcover and ebook form in April 2015. It is an expanded version of the author's 2003 short story of the same name. The original concept comes from a line in Janis Ian's song "God and the FBI" which says "Stalin was a Democrat." In the foreword, Turtledove explains that from hearing this song, he began to imagine reasons for Stalin to be a Democrat, and the story grew from there. Janis Ian was an editor of the original short story, and is the dedicatee of the resulting novel.

Joe Steele (novel)

Joe Steele is an alternate history novel by Harry Turtledove, first published by ROC Books/New American Library in hardcover and ebook form in April 2015. It is an expanded version of the author's 2003 short story of the same name. The original concept comes from a line in Janis Ian's song "God and the FBI" which says "Stalin was a Democrat." In the foreword, Turtledove explains that from hearing this song, he began to imagine reasons for Stalin to be a Democrat, and the story grew from there. Janis Ian was an editor of the original short story, and is the dedicatee of the resulting novel.