and with popular culture. The stories are significant in that they feature famous fictional characters (particularly from American and British texts) interacting with real personages; President Charles Foster Kane, for example, is the main character from Orson Welles' 1941 motion picture Citizen Kane, whereas Tom Joad — hunted by real-life law enforcers Elliot Ness and Melvin Purvis in 'Tom Joad' — is the protagonist of John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Hannibal Lecter appears as the head of the Department of Health, and John Rambo helps train Vietnamese Communists. Rambo is played in a film by Raymond Massey. Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart appears as a British officer in Teddy Bears' Picnic (though Doctor Who is referred to as fiction in the same story), as do Nigel Molesworth and Basil Fotherington-Thomas. Real-world comparisons Individuals Events and objects Publication history In the Air: Interzone #43, January 1990 Ten Days That Shook The World: Interzone #48, June 1990 Tom Joad: Interzone #65, November 1992 Teddy Bears' Picnic: Interzone #122-#123, August & September 1997 Citizen Ed: Interzone #113, November 1996 Abdication Street: Interzone #105, March 1996 References External links Review of Back in the USSA by Steven H. Silver 1997 short story collections Alternate history anthologies American alternate history novels Crossover novels Novels by Kim Newman Novels first published in serial form Works originally published in Interzone (magazine) Novels set in the 20th century Novels set in Russia Novels set in the United States Cultural depictions of Woody Allen Cultural depictions of Al Capone Cultural depictions of Charlie Chaplin Cultural depictions of Charles III Cultural depictions of Ed Gein Cultural depictions of Buddy Holly Cultural depictions of Lyndon B. Johnson Cultural depictions of Henry Kissinger Cultural depictions of Charles Lindbergh Cultural depictions of Joseph McCarthy Cultural depictions of Eliot Ness Cultural depictions of Richard Nixon Cultural depictions of Annie Oakley Cultural depictions of Ayn Rand Cultural depictions of Theodore Roosevelt Cultural depictions of William Howard Taft Cultural depictions of Leon Trotsky Cultural depictions of Margaret Thatcher Cultural depictions of John Wayne Cultural depictions of Woodrow Wilson Cultural depictions of the Edward VIII abdication crisis United States presidential succession in fiction Works about RMS Titanic Novels set during the Cold War Novels set during the Vietnam War Dystopian novels Second American Civil War speculative fiction