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Norman Spinrad

Norman Spinrad

Author Biography & Works

Norman Richard Spinrad is an American science fiction author, essayist, and critic. His fiction has won the Prix Apollo and been nominated for numerous awards, including the Hugo Award and multiple Nebula Awards.

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Books by Norman Spinrad

Bug Jack Barron

Bug Jack Barron

One of the great taboos that the new wave broke was political engagement. This was an era when everyone engaged in politics, from Vietnam protests to feminist campaigns to Stonewall,...

The Men In The Jungle

The Men In The Jungle

On the planet Sangre (Spanish for 'blood') there exists a divided society so brutal that it makes your average Earth-bound slavery society look like a humanitarian enterprise. The sub-class is...

Greenhouse Summer

Greenhouse Summer

A century hence. Melted Antarctic ice cap and flooded coastlines, drowned cities and low-lying inland areas. Temperatures have risen to making Paris a tropical destination, and Siberia a super-fertile growing...

The Iron Dream

The Iron Dream

I thought I was all out of Hitler jokes, until The Iron Dream came along, and offered up an alternate history Hitler who, instead of being the Fuhrer as we...

The Void Captain's Tale

The Void Captain's Tale

Humans travel the universe using a technology that they don't fully understand. Ships are piloted by women who are sybiotically linked with the space drive—they are called the void pilot...

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