Norman Spinrad, Author . Knopf $24.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-375-41110-6
A distinguished science fiction author (Bug Jack Barron, etc.) turns to historical fiction with this sweeping but unremarkable tale of the myth-infused adventures of Vercingetorix, the greatest and last leader of the Gauls against the Romans under...
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Norman Spinrad, Author . Tor $27.99 (540p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2584-6
Spinrad's shrill messianic novel reaches the U.S. eight years after its first publication in French. Texas Jimmy Balaban is convinced that stand-up comedian Ralf, a self-proclaimed refugee from a horrific world of tomorrow, could be a megastar.
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Norman Spinrad, Author Franklin Watts $16.95 (179p) ISBN 978-0-531-15072-6
Before Spinrad made his name with Bug Jack Barron, his rude, energetic fourth novel, his earliest work had passed without much notice. In this second novel, written in 1967, the tyrannical Hegemony, which has given its citizens peace and prosperity,
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Norman Spinrad, Author Spectra Books $6 (486p) ISBN 978-0-553-05207-7
Spinrad mined media hype and manipulation to fine effect in his early novel, Bug Jack Barron. Now 18 years later, he has another go with this near future story of the conglomerate MUZIK's desire to substitute APs (artificial personalities) for its...
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Norman Spinrad, Author Bantam Books $22.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-553-07586-1
In the near future, the debt-laden U.S. owns a technology that renders it ``the world's best-defended Third World country.'' The only real outer-space planning is in Common Europe, so young American ``space cadet'' Jerry Reed goes to work in Paris....
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Norman Spinrad, Author Tor Books $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-86799-7
Spinrad's latest, an uneasy blend of SF, suspense thriller and political commentary, offers grim hope for our planetary ecology. In the future, the United Nations Annual Conference on Climate Stabilization meets in Paris to discuss the possibility...
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Norman Spinrad. PM, $12 trade paper (108p) ISBN 978-1-60486-810-4
Jimmy DiAngelo is in Hell, but he's faced worse situations as a disreputable union organizer, and he sets out to make conditions better for the demons in a satire that fails to make a point beyond a banal "life is hell." Spinrad (Osama the Gun)...
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Norman Spinrad. Wildside, $14.99 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-1-4794-2095-7
In this thought-provoking work set in the near future and first published in 2007, Spinrad (Raising Hell) traces the course of his protagonist’s life from naive youth to veteran soldier. His hero is named Osama and is born in a Caliphate that...
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Norman Spinrad, Author, Kent Bash, Illustrator Tafford Publishing, Incorporated $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-9623712-3-3
If this autobiographical novel by the prolific SF author had been published 20 years ago during the era that it reflects, it would have achieved cult status by now. Set in New York City in the late '60s, it concerns the highs and lows of Tom...
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