The Sound of His Horn (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: John William Wall
- First Published: 1952
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—alternate history
- Time of Work: 1943 and the mid-twenty-first century
- Setting: Germany
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy, Alternate history
- Subjects: Future, Twenty-first century, 1940’s, World War II, Nazism or Nazis, Hunting or hunters, Germany or German people, Prisoners of war
- Locales: Germany
The Plot
The unnamed narrator is invited in 1949 to visit his friend Alan Querdilion, whom he has not seen since before the war. He finds Querdilion oddly different as a result of his experience as a prisoner of war (POW). Querdilion is withdrawn, distracted, and even apparently afraid of his fiancée. Eventually, Querdilion tells the following story, while asserting that it is evidence only that he had been mad; to believe otherwise would be to doubt the sanity of the world itself.
In 1943, after two years in a POW camp in eastern Germany, Querdilion manages to escape....
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