Dark and prescient, anti-fascist dystopian novel with some interesting parallels to Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, which was published more than a decade later. Also considered an important work of feminist literature, depicting the utter subjugation of women as nothing above breeders, kept in cages like cattle or dogs, a comparison made throughout the novel. To give birth to a female is considered shameful, and yet ironically, the fecundity of this fascist, male-centric future is ultimately threatened by a shrinking number of female births.

Murray Constantine was the pseudonym for Katharine Burdekin, a British speculative fiction novelist, who published a number of later works under this pseudonymn. The true identity of Constantine was not learned until the mid-1980s when American scholar, Daphne Patai discovered it while researching utopian and dystopian fiction. This ultimately led to the rediscovery of Swastika Night and it was republished by the Feminist Press. A landmark work of dystopian fiction. See Wessells 26.