Norman Spinrad
Bio: Norman Spinrad has been publishing short stories since 1963 and novels since 1965, thusfar something like 60 short stories and 20 novels, which have been translated into over 15 languages.
Among his best known novels are BUG JACK BARRON, denounced on the floor of the British Parliament and under continuous film option since 1971; THE IRON DREAM, banned in Germany for eight years, winner of the Prix Apollo in France, and short-listed for the National Book Award in the United States; RIDING THE TORCH, winner of the Jupiter Award; CHILD OF FORTUNE; JOURNALS OF THE PLAGUE YEARS, which has been adapted as two entirely differennt theater pieces; and most recently GREENHOUSE SUMMER. One of his four short story collections, THE STAR SPANGLED FUTURE, was a finalist for the American Book Award. THE DRUID KING is forthcom-ing from Alfred A. Knopf.
He has also written teleplays, feature films, political commentary, film criticism, and extensive literary criticism, some of which has been collected in SCIENCE FICTION IN THE REAL WORLD.
He also writes songs, has recorded a few of them, and in the last few years has occassionally performed live.
Norman Spinrad was President of World SF and three-time President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
He grew up in New York City, has lived in Los Angeles, Lon-don, and San Francisco, has travelled widely in Europe and Mexico, a bit in Asia, and now resides in Paris, France.
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Journals of the Plague Years [MultiFormat]
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 I wanted, most passionately, to write a novel about not only the future of an America under the cloud of the AIDS epidemic and what it would do to a generation living in a world where death and sex were intimately entwined. Not only that, but with a scientifically plausible means of bringing such a terrible era to a happy ending. This was in the 1980s, and my agent told me I was crazy, no publisher would touch such a thing because they couldn't distribute the novel in the Bible Belt. But I would... more info>> (Published: 1995)
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Riding the Torch: The Jupiter Award Winning SF Classic [MultiFormat]
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Jupiter Award, Hugo Nominee Space Saga of the Human Spirit Aginst the Void! Their trek across the stars had lasted a thousand years. 2400 torch ships in a vain search for a planet that would support human life. Without a haven soon their spirits would die and the human race along with them. One group knew the unspeakable truth, the Pilots. So they enlisted trek's most brilliant senso composer to tell their story. But first he would have to face the ordeal that had driven other men mad and enter ... more info>> Hugo Award Nominee
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A Man of the Theater [MultiFormat]
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I was asked to write a 700 word story for Nature's ongoing series. This is much harder to do than it sounds. Or as Oscar Wilde wrote, "I would have written a shorter letter, but I didn't have the time." The memoir of the last live thespian on the way out. (Published: 2005)
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A Thing of Beauty [MultiFormat]
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This story was originally written for an anthology called 2020, and the time-frame was the only requirement. It was written at a time when the Japanese were buying lots of companies in America. How far might they really go, and why? And who is the smart guy here and who is the nikulturni rube? An exploration of a culturally fallen America and Japanese esthetics. (Published: 1973)
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Entities [MultiFormat]
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Commissioned for an anthology where the format was simply to write anything set in the Year 3000 (to be published for the end of the millenium, but it came out late.) A meditation on electronic afterlife something like my short novel DEUS X, but told from a very different angle. The narrator is "dead." Or is he/she/it? The question being "Do I Wake, or do I dream?" And what sort of entities might be designed to live on after the death of the "meatware?" And why? (Published: 2002)
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La Cuisine Humaine: How to Cook Like a Human Being [MultiFormat]
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This is a cookbook in the form of a science fiction story and/or a science fiction story in the form of a cookbook--a treatise on how to cook like a human being written by an alien for aliens. But it will show humans too how to cook almost any form of human cuisine in a few thousand words and roll your own too. Really. I once did this for Chinese cuisine in a magazine in an article much shorter than this. Try it. If aliens can do it, so can you. (Published: 1999)
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Mexica [MultiFormat]
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The fictionalized but essentially true story of the conquest of the great empire of Montezuma by Hernando Cortes as told by a narrator who could very well have been there. (Published: 2005)
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Prime Time [MultiFormat]
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A story of the ultimate retirement community, the ultimate virtual reality, and the ultimate couch potatoes who inhabit it. Written a decade or two ago, but getting closer and closer to reality every day. Inspired, perhaps, by a gizmo in a Philip K. Dick novel--the Mood Organ. Dial up any mood you want to experience. But beware of the setting called "The Desire to Watch Television No Matter What's On." Once you dial up that one, you don't leave. (Published: 1980)
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The Druid King [Secure Mobipocket]
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 Vercingetorix, the great Gallic warrior, was both a man of history and a man of myth. Druid King of Gaul, King of One Hundred Battles, he was among Julius Caesar's greatest opponents; his eventual defeat at Caesar's hands was said to prove Caesar's unstoppable power. Yet Vercingetorix has remained, to this day, a French national hero. And now he is the heart and soul of this enthralling and evocative historical novel. Witness to his father's harrowing death, Vercingetorix spends years deep in th... more info>>
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The Fat Vampire [MultiFormat]
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A story entirely about eating, bulimia, weight loss and gain, and the culture thereof in Hollywood. Mouthwatering and gut-busting. No magazine in the US would, uh, touch it with a fork, but it's been published in Ireland, France, and elsewhere. Includes the revelation of the "Hollywood Diet Secret." Eat all that you want to and never gain weight. Unless..... (Published: 1993)
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The Helping Hand [MultiFormat]
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Originally commissioned by an Italian daily newspaper which just wanted any kind of science fiction story, since published in the US among other places. An advanced galactic civilization gives humanity a cruel but wonderful gift in the form of a moral lesson. (Published: 1991)
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Vampire Junkies [MultiFormat]
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A love story in a jugular vein. Count Dracula arrives in New York very thirsty indeed, and the first victim he chances upon is a junkie girl who has just shot up with heroin. Love at first bite, or something like it. One good jones deserves another, doesn't it? Doesn't it? (Published: 1993)
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Where the Heart Is [MultiFormat]
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Conceived as a pitch for one of the revivals of The Twilight Zone. Magic, voodoo, gris-gris, call it what you like, a way home for a bag-lady. They didn't like the idea but I did, and so I wrote it as a short story. It would work just as well as a radio play, and I've done it as a dramatic reading, even though it required a bit of Rasta-rap. (Published: 1993)
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