The Iron Feather is a 24th century novel written by Christian McCloy. The novel focuses on a character who lives during the Post-Atomic Horror in Earth's 21st century.

In the anti-time timeline created by Q, Data was reading The Iron Feather in 2370 and recommended it to Geordi La Forge. La Forge was not interested as the novel was set in the Post-Atomic Horror and no holodeck version was available. (TNG novelization: All Good Things...)