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| Author | M. A. R. Barker (using the pseudonym Randolph D. Calverhall) |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | National Vanguard Books |
Publication date | 1991 |
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| Pages | 449 |
| ISBN | 0-937944-05-X |
| OCLC | 28173024 |
| LC Class | MLCS 93/04796 |
Serpent's Walk is a neo-Nazi science fiction novel written by M. A. R. Barker, published under the pseudonym Randolph D. Calverhall. It was published in 1991 by National Vanguard Books, the book publishing division of the neo-Nazi group the National Alliance. The book features an alternate history where SS soldiers begin an underground resistance after the end of WWII; the protagonist, Alan Lessing, eventually becomes the Führer and worldwide dictator of the Fourth Reich, following a pandemic that eliminates millions. The book espouses a belief in an international Jewish conspiracy and extensively quotes Mein Kampf. The book saw some popularity with far-right extremists, though far less than the far more notorious book The Turner Diaries, also published by National Vanguard Books. Scholars have noted it as far more literary than that book, with a heavier focus on science fiction.
Barker was a science fiction and fantasy writer, better known for his creation of the fictional universe of Tékumel. As Serpent's Walk was published under a pseudonym, his authorship of the work was publicly unknown prior to 2022, though Barker's Tékumel Foundation found out after his death in 2012. Prior to the reveal of Barker's authorship, one theory as to its authorship was that it was written by William Luther Pierce, the author of The Turner Diaries and the leader of the National Alliance. In 2018, scholar Amina Inloes alluded to the book in a piece on Barker, though did not mention it by name; in March 2022, the Tékumel Foundation confirmed that Barker had authored the book and disavowed it.