Norman Spinrad at Large: Life as We Don’t Know It?
My “On Books” review in ASIMOV magazine, CITIZENS OF THE GALAXY, is about to be published and when I wrote it I said that the existence of life beyond our planet and or/solar system might […]
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Norman Spinrad At Large: Still Crazy After All These Years
Looking backward about half a century as a published writer, it’s a too long and complicated a story for me to tell myself even if I wanted to, which I don’t, so from here on […]
Norman Spinrad at Large: Bummers versus Speculative Fiction
Well it’s been quite a while since I wrote one of these, and this being near the end of 2023, it seems to be a good time to let it be known that I’m still […]
Norman Spinrad at Large: SAVE THE MAGAZINES!
It’s no secret when the remaining three SF magazines, that is, magazines still selling ink and paper editions, are in trouble when they are now referred to as “traditional,” one step away from “historic,” meaning […]
Climate Chaos and Greenhouse Summer
It’s not coming, it’s already here. Robert Heinlein wrote a story called The Year of the Jackpot in which all the shit hits the fan, it wasn’t about climate change, but 2023 is definitely it. […]
GENERAL STRIKE: AMERICAN GENERALS GO ON STRIKE AGAINST THE FOREVER WAR
No magazine would touch this story back when I wrote it, and I more or less knew they wouldn’t, but I juat had to write it. But alas these days, what goes around comes around. […]
Norman Spinrad at Large – Save the SF Magazines from AI, Amazon, and SFWA?
It is no secret that the three traditional ink and paper SF magazines, Asimov’s, Analog, and Fantasy and Science Fiction, are in deep trouble, and perhaps not as obviously so are the main online SF […]
Norman Spinrad At Large: Citizen Of The Planet
I became a writer and not a lawyer after a summer in Mexico. I came a novelist of notorious literary and political note in Britain when BUG JACK BARRON was denounced in Parliament and lived […]
NORMAN SPINRAD AT LARGE & COMMONS – The Brown Revolution
No, uh, kidding, I really did my scientific homework and wrote this story, and NATURE really did publish it. Your Majesty, members of the Swedish Academy, fellow Nobel Laureates, Ladies, Gentlemen, and others, including former […]
NORMAN SPINRAD AT LARGE & COMMONS & SF – Still Crazy After All These Years
I didn’t make much of my 82th birthday, and I didn’t make much of my 80th birthday on September 15, 2022 either, but now, I find myself positively forced to think about my past while […]
Norman Spinrad At Large And Commons – An SF Manifesto
Scientifiction, Science Fiction, Sci-F, Speculative Fiction. SF. Do those two letters really mean the same thing now? Did they ever? According to the SFWA, which began as the Science Fiction Writers of America, and then […]
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Norman Spinrad is an American science fiction author and critic. He was born in New York City in 1940 and began writing science fiction in the 1960s. Spinrad’s novels include “The Iron Dream,” “Bug Jack Barron,” and “Little Heroes.” He is also known for his non-fiction works, including “Science Fiction in the Real World.” Spinrad has won several awards for his writing, including the Hugo and Nebula awards. He continues to write and publish science fiction to this day.
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