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Norman Spinrad

USA  (1940 - )
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About Norman Spinrad
Born in New York in 1940, Norman Spinrad has been an acclaimed SF writer, editor and critic since the mid 1960s. THE DRUID KING is his first historical novel.
 
Series
Second Starfaring Age
1. The Void Captain's Tale (1982)
2. Child of Fortune (1985)
The Void Captain's TaleChild of Fortune
 
Anthology series
After the Flames
 
Anthologies edited
The New TomorrowsModern Science FictionNo direction home
 
Non fiction
Staying Alive: A Writer's GuideExperiment Perilous: Three Essays on Science FictionScience Fiction in the Real World
 
Anthologies containing stories by Norman Spinrad
Dangerous Visions 3One Hundred Years of Science FictionBest SF Stories from New WorldsThe Best Science Fiction of the Year
Nova 3Nebula Award Stories 9No direction homeThe Best of Analog
Countdown to Midnight: Twelve Great Stories About Nuclear WarFull SpectrumFull Spectrum 3The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories
The Playboy Book of Science FictionYear's Best SF 4
 
Short stories
The Last of the Romany (1963)
The Equalizer (1964)
The Ersatz Ego (1964)
Outward Bound (1964)
The Rules of the Road (1964)
Subjectivity (1964)
A Child of Mind (1965)
Deathwatch (1965)
The Age of Invention (1966)
Technicality (1966)
Carcinoma Angels (1967)
It's a Bird! It's a Plane! (1967)
A Night in Elf Hill (1968)
The Big Flash (1969)Nebula (nominee)
The Conspiracy (1969)
Dead End (1969)
The Entropic Gang Bang Caper (1969)
Heroes Die But Once (1969)
The Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde [short story] (1969)
Once More, with Feeling (1969)
The Lost Continent (1970)
Neutral Ground (1970)
The Weed of Time (1970)
No Direction Home [short story] (1971)
Heirloom (1972)
All the Sounds of the Rainbow (1973)
The National Pastime (1973)
A Thing of Beauty (1973)Nebula (nominee)
In the Eye of the Storm (1974)
Riding the Torch [short story] (1974)Hugo (nominee)
Journals of the Plague Years (1988)Hugo (nominee)
Nebula (nominee)
The Helping Hand (1991)
The Year of the Mouse (1998)


Awards
Hugo Best Novel nominee (1970) : Bug Jack Barron
Nebula Best Novellette nominee (1970) : The Big Flash
Nebula Best Novel nominee (1970) : Bug Jack Barron
Nebula Best Novel nominee (1973) : The Iron Dream
Nebula Best Short story nominee (1974) : A Thing of Beauty
Hugo Best Novella nominee (1975) : Riding the Torch [short story]
Nebula Best Novel nominee (1984) : The Void Captain's Tale
Hugo Best Novella nominee (1989) : Journals of the Plague Years
Nebula Best Novella nominee (1989) : Journals of the Plague Years
John W Campbell Memorial Award Best Novel nominee (2000) : Greenhouse Summer


Links to other websites
NORMAN SPINRAD'S HOME PAGE


Norman Spinrad recommends
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968)
(Bladerunner, book 1)
Philip K Dick
"The greatest American novelist of the second half of the 20th century."
The Agency Trilogy
The Agency Trilogy (1994)
(Agency)
David Meltzer
"The Agency is clearly Meltzer paradigm's of society; a mindless machine of which we are all "agents," including those whom the machines supposedly serve."
Smoking Mirror Blues
Smoking Mirror Blues (2001)
Ernest Hogan
"Ernest Hogan has created a kind of North American magic realism."



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