The Catcher in the Rhine

'"The Catcher in the Rhine" is a short fantasy story by Harry Turtledove, published in The Chick is in the Mail'', edited by Esther Friesner, Baen 2000. It is pastiche cum sequel of J. D. Salinger's novel The Catcher in the Rye. The narrator of the story, an American youth traveling through Europe to "find himself" makes a fateful stop in a small town in Germany, where he his transported through time, and is forced to rescue the Valkyrie Brunhild. While the German charcters of the story misinterpret his name as "Hagen Kriemheld", the narrtors correct name is never stated explicitly. Implicitly, "Kriemheld" is Holden Caulfield, the protagonist of Salinger's work.