Eric G. Swedin

Publications

Books

• With David L. Ferro. The Computer: A Brief History of the Machine That Changed the World (Greenwood Press, 2022).
• Seeking Valhalla: A Science Fiction Novel (Borgo Press, an imprint of Wildside Press, 2013).
• Fragments of Me: A Science Fiction Novel (Borgo Press, an imprint of Wildside Press, 2012).
• Bingham Canyon Doctor: The Life and Legacy of Paul S. Richards (University of Utah School of Medicine, 2012).
• Anasazi Exile: A Science Fiction Novel (Borgo Press, an imprint of Wildside Press, 2012).
• With David L. Ferro, editors. Science Fiction and Computing: Essays on Interlinked Domains (McFarland, 2011).
• Editor. Survive the Bomb: The Radioactive Citizen's Guide to Nuclear Survival (Zenith Books, 2011).
• When Angels Wept: A What-If History of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Potomac Books, 2010). Won the 2010 Sidewise Award for Best Alternate History.
• With David L. Ferro. Computers: The Life Story of a Technology (Greenwood Press, 2005). Reissued as a paperback by The Johns Hopkins University Press in 2007.
• Science in the Contemporary World: An Encyclopedia (ABC-CLIO, 2005).
• The Killing of Greybird: A Novel (Cedar Fort, 2004).
• Healing Souls: Psychotherapy in the Latter-day Saint Community (University of Illinois Press, 2003). 

Selected Articles & Essays

• "The Echoes of Silver Ridge." Jaleta Clegg and Joe Monson, editors, A Hero of a Different Stripe (Hemelein Publications/LTUE Press, 2023). Science fiction short story.
• "Homosexuality and Therapeutic Culture in Mormonism," in Amy Hoyt and Taylor Petry, editors, The Routledge Handbook of Mormonism and Gender (Routledge, 2020), 187-204.
• Contributor, section on Edward Teller. Aaron Barlow, editor, The Manhattan Project and the Dropping of the Atomic Bomb: The Essential Reference Guide (ABC-CLIO, 2019). Section reused from Science in the Contemporary World: An Encyclopedia (2005).
• "Knowing Me." Joe Monson and Jaleta Clegg, editors, Trace the Stars (Hemelein Publications/LTUE Press, 2019). Science fiction short story.
• “Columbus Was Wrong: Extract from a Work in Progress on American History.”  Weber: The Contemporary West 33:2 (Spring/Summer 2017): 67-74.
• “Utah's Spaceport: A Failed Dream.”  Utah Historical Quarterly 84:3 (Summer 2016), 254-261.
• With David L. Ferro.  “Murray Leinster and ‘A Logic Named Joe’.”  Literary Criticism (Gale, 2015).
• "Safety Lessons: The 1938 Burgon’s Crossing School Bus and Train Accident."  Utah Historical Quarterly 81:2 (Spring 2013), 159-168. 
• "The Ultimate What-If of the Cuban Missile Crisis: What If There Had Been a Nuclear War?" History News Network, November 12,
• "Why OS/2 Failed: Business Mistakes Compounded by Memory Prices," Mountain Plains Journal of Business and Economics 10 (2009), 28-37.
• "Thiokol in Utah," Utah Historical Quarterly 75:1 (Winter 2007), 64-78.
• "Designing Babies: A Eugenics Race with China?" The Futurist 40:3 (May-June 2006), 18-21.
• "The History of Computer Hacking Reveals Benevolent Origins," Standard-Examiner, May 31, 2004, page 11A.
• "Bingham Canyon Physician: Paul Snelgrove Richards, 1892-1958," Utah Historical Quarterly 69:1 (Winter 2001): 60-68.
• "Psychotherapy in the LDS Community," AMCAP Journal 25:1 (Fall 2000): 27-39.
• "We're Witnessing Our Own 20th-century Renaissance," Ogden Standard-Examiner, May 12, 1999, page 11A.
• "Integrating the Modern Psychologies and Religion: Allen E. Bergin and the Latter-day Saint Example," Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 35:2 (Spring 1999): 157-176.
• "'One Flesh:' A Historical Overview of Latter-day Saint Sexuality and Psychology," Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 31:4 (Winter 1998), 1-29.  Won the 1998 Dialogue History and Biography Award.
• "Perry Prevails: The Battle of Lake Erie," Military History (web edition), April, 1997.
• "The Swett Homestead: 1909-1970," Utah Historical Quarterly 62:2 (Spring 1994): 132-148.