| Joe Noggle | |
| De Camp Character | |
| First Appearance: | "The Wheels of If" |
| Creator: | L. Sprague de Camp |
| Nationality: | Bretwaldate of Vinland |
| Date of Birth: | Late 19th century |
| Occupation: | Doctor, meddler with darkest science |
| Turtledove Appearances: | |
Joseph "Joe" Noggle is an important supporting character in L. Sprague de Camp's 1940 short work, "The Wheels of If". He is a doctor from the Bretwaldate of Vinland who is hired by a racialist political faction to disrupt Bishop Ib Scoglund's campaign for Skrelling civil rights. He finds a way to disrupt Scoglund's "wheel of time," causing Scoglund's mind to be interchanged with the minds of Scoglund's various analogs in other timelines, including Allister Park, a man from OTL. In the process, Noggle disrupts his own "wheel", resulting in his own multiple personality disorder, which causes him to be committed to an insane asylum.
He is only briefly referenced in Harry Turtledove's "The Pugnacious Peacemaker", a sequel to de Camp's work.
Joe Noggle in "The Pugnacious Peacemaker"[]
| "The Pugnacious Peacemaker" First POD: AD 664 Second POD: AD 732 | |
| Type of Appearance: | Contemporary reference |
Joseph Noggle remained in an insane asylum in 1941, when Ib Scoglund (né Allister Park) went on his diplomatic mission to Tawantiinsuuju. At the darkest moments of the mission, Park considered abandoning his new life and rushing back to Vinland, in order to have Noggle help him get back to Park's original timeline.[1]
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