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Norman Spinrad


USA flag (b.1940)

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.


Genres: Science Fiction, Horror
 
Series
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Novels
   The Solarians (1966)
   Agent of Chaos (1967)
   The Men in the Jungle (1967)
   Bug Jack Barron (1969)
   The Iron Dream (1972)
   Passing Through the Flame (1975)
   Riding the Torch (1978)
   A World Between (1979)
   The Mind Game (1980)
   Songs from the Stars (1980)
   The Process (1983)
   Little Heroes (1987)
   Russian Spring (1991)
   The Children of Hamelin (1991)
   Deus X (1992)
   Vampire Junkies (1994)
   Pictures at Eleven (1994)
   Journal of the Plague Years (1995)
   Greenhouse Summer (1999)
   He Walked Among Us (2003)
   The Druid King (2003)
   Mexica (2005)
   Osama the Gun (2016)
   Welcome to your Dreamtime (2016)
   The People's Police (2017)
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Collections
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Journals of the Plague Years (1988)
   Subjectivity (2010)
   Carcinoma Angels (2013)
   Entities (2013)
   The Helping Hand (2013)
   The Music of the Sphere (2013)
   The Transformation Crisis (2013)
   Where No Man Pursueth (2013)
   The Sword of Damocles (2018)
   General Strike (2019)
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Anthologies edited
   The New Tomorrows (1971)
   Modern Science Fiction (1974)
   No direction home (1975)
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Series contributed to
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Plays show
 
Non fiction show
 
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Books containing stories by Norman Spinrad
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Black Cat Weekly #116 (2023)
(Black Cat Weekly, book 116)
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Black Cat Weekly #115 (2023)
(Black Cat Weekly, book 115)
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Black Cat Weekly #114 (2023)
(Black Cat Weekly, book 114)

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Award nominations
2018 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : The People's Police
2000 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Greenhouse Summer
2000 John W. Campbell Memorial Award (nominee) : Greenhouse Summer
1994 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Vampire Junkies
1993 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Deus X
1992 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Russian Spring
1989 Nebula Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Journals of the Plague Years
1989 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : La Vie Continue
1989 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Journals of the Plague Years
1989 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : Other Americas
1989 Hugo Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Journals of the Plague Years
1988 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Little Heroes
1986 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Child of Fortune
1986 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : World War Last
1984 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The Void Captain's Tale
1983 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Void Captain's Tale
1982 Prometheus Award (nominee) : Songs from the Stars
1981 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : Songs from the Stars
1980 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : A World Between
1980 Locus Award for Best Collection (nominee) : The Star-Spangled Future
1980 BSFA Award for Best Novel (nominee) : A World Between
1975 Locus Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Riding the Torch
1975 Hugo Award for Best Novella (nominee) : Riding the Torch [short story]
1974 Nebula Award for Best Short Story (nominee) : A Thing of Beauty
1973 Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (nominee) : The Iron Dream
1972 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : The Iron Dream
1971 Locus Award for Best Anthology (nominee) : The Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde
1970 Nebula Award for Best Novelette (nominee) : The Big Flash
1970 Hugo Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Bug Jack Barron
1969 Nebula Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Bug Jack Barron


Norman Spinrad recommends
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Smoking Mirror Blues (2001)
Ernest Hogan
"Ernest Hogan has created a kind of North American magic realism."
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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."
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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."

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