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Eric G. Swedin is an American author of science fiction and academic nonfiction works. He is a professor of history at Weber State University in Utah. Swedin is the 2010 long form winner of the Sidewise Award for his alternate history novel When Angels Wept: A What-If History of the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was a consultant for the Emmy Award-winning documentary, Clouds Over Cuba, which was created for the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.

Swedin is a professor of history at Weber State University in Utah. He has written several non-fiction textbooks and academic works, as well as five novels, and his books and papers have been cited in over 70 academic works.^[2] He won the Sidewise Award for his 2010 alternate history novel, When Angels Wept: A What-If History of the Cuban Missile Crisis.^[3] He was a consultant on two documentaries about the Cuban Missile Crisis: Clouds Over Cuba, which won an Emmy Award,^[4] and What If...? Armageddon 1962, a documentary which aired on the Military Channel in 2014.

• Healing Souls: Psychotherapy in the Latter-day Saint Community (2003, University of Illinois Press, ISBN 0-252-02864-3)
• Science in the Contemporary World: An Encyclopedia (2005, part of the History of Science series, ABC-CLIO, ISBN 1-85109-524-1)
• Science Fiction and Computing: Essays on Interlinked Domains (2011, McFarland & Company, ISBN 978-0-7864-4565-3, as editor with David L. Ferro)
• Survive the Bomb: The Radioactive Citizen's Guide to Nuclear Survival (2011, Zenith Press, ISBN 978-0-7603-4031-8, as editor)

Essays

• "Murray Leinster and 'A Logic Named Joe'" (2011, with David L. Ferro, in Science Fiction and Computing: Essays on Interlinked Domains, McFarland & Company, ISBN 978-0-7864-4565-3)
• "Rebooting 'A Logic Named Joe': Exploring the Multiple Influences of a Strangely Predictive Mid-1940s Short Story" (2011, with David L. Ferro, in Science Fiction and the Prediction of the Future: Essays on Foresight and Fallacy, McFarland & Company, ISBN 978-0-7864-5841-7)

• The Killing of Greybird (2004, CFI, ISBN 1-55517-767-0)
• When Angels Wept: A What-If History of the Cuban Missile Crisis (2010, Potomac Books, ISBN 978-1-59797-517-9)
• Anasazi Exile (2011, Borgo Press/Wildside Press, ISBN 978-1-4344-4403-5)
• Fragments of Me (2012, Borgo Press/Wildside Press, ISBN 978-1-4344-4515-5)
• Seeking Valhalla (2013, Borgo Press/Wildside Press, ISBN 978-1-4794-0071-3)

Swedin consulted on Clouds Over Cuba and consulted on and appeared in What If...? Armageddon 1962.

• Clouds Over Cuba (2012, created by and aired at John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum)^[5][6] This program won an Emmy Award for "New Approaches: Documentaries".^[4]
• What If...? Armageddon 1962 (2014, Military Channel)^[5][7]

• Alternatives: Histories of the Past and Future (Swedin's blog)