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  • Bibliography:
    37 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1967
  • Latest Book:
    February 2017
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Book List in Order: 37 titles



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    THE TIME IS THE 24TH CENTURY Humankind populates the entire solar system, from icy Pluto to boiling Mercury. Great domed :ties, humming factories, hordes of workers, all feed the power of the dictatorship that controls all life. Only a small group...



  • CARCINOMA ANGELS a short story by NORMAN SPINRAD Probably Norman Spinrad's most anthologized story. The first story purchased for Harlan Ellison's DANGEROUS visions anthology. Nominated for awards...




  • A collection of short stories from the acclaimed author of 'Bug Jack Barron'. Includes "No Direction Home" which depicts a drug dystopia, and "Sierra Maestra." A violent rock group with maniacal music boils up a craze for a nuclear blast. A man finds...



  • American Dream or American Nightmare? Norman Spinrad describes The Star-Spangled Future:"America is something new under the sun. not so much a nation at all as a precog flash of the future of the species . . .I wrote believing that I was simply writi...



  • Pacifica was a monument to freedom and equality-until the off-worlders came. The Femocrats, a party of female separatists, and the Transcendental Scientists, an institute of technofascists dedicated to male supremacy. Carlotta Madigan, Pacifica's pri...



  • ENTER THE WORLD OF TRANSMUTATIONS -- MENTAL AND ELEMENTAL, ALCHEMICAL AND ACADEMIC NIGHT AND THE LOVES OF JOE DICOSTANZO by Samuel R. Delany When a young man living in an abandoned castle discovers he has strange and wonderful powers, he's delig...



  • Welcome aboard the sex-drive void ship . . .Captain Genro commands the giant spaceship Dragon Zephyr - on board are ten thousand passengers in electrocoma, a smaller number of conscious passengers eagerly utilising the ship's dream chambers - and a P...



  • He was Clear Blue Lou, perfect master of the Clear Blue Way, at one with the law of muscle, sun, wind and water governing Aquaria. She was Sunshine Sue, always in a hurry in a world that was too slow, Queen of Word of Mouth. Their meeting had been ar...






  • Jack Weller, a young Hollywood director plunges into a nightmare when he battles the Transformationalists, a mysterious soul-stealing empire, to save and reclaim the woman he loves, his actress wife, Annie...



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    Forced to run away from home, one woman becomes the victim of the seedy underworld, but in a world where her only hope of survival is to surrender to fate. A sequel to A WOMAN OF HER TIME....



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    Norman Spinrad's 1972 alternate history, gives us both a metafictional what-if novel and a cutting satire of one of the 20th century's most evil regimes . . .In 1919, a young Austrian artist by the name of Adolf Hitler immigrated to the United States...



  • Set against a background of world political and economic upheaval, Russian Spring is a powerful saga of ardent dreamers and star-crossed lovers, an exhilarating and thought-provoking novel by the award-winning author of Little Heroes and Child of For...



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    In the near future Glorianna O'Toole is assigned to a project to create a computerized rock star, but members of the Reality Liberation Front have their own plans for the projects....



  • Lover and hero, Jack Barron, the sold-out media god of the Bug Jack Barron Show, has one last chance to hit it big when he meets Benedict Howards, the power-mad man with the secret to immortality....



  • Can human consciousness exist within the framework of an electronic "brain" and still maintain its humanity? In DEUS X, a dying priest's consciousness is uploaded into the most advanced computer of the day - and what ensues is a thought-provoking, en...




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    The Plague's origins were mysterious, but its consequences were all too obvious: quarantined cities, safe-sex machines, Sex Police, the outlawing of old-fashioned love. Four people hold the fate of humanity in their hands...A sexual mercenary condemn...



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    The world of the future is in a lot of trouble. Pollution, overpopulation, and ecological disasters have left the rich nations still rich, and the poor nations dying. Still, for international businesses it is business as usual. It is better to be ric...






  • A major triumph of historical fiction, The Druid King, is a masterly retelling of the life of the legendary general Vercingetorix and his brilliant crusade against the Roman invasion of Gaul.Vercingetorix was both a man of myth and a real historical ...



  • Earth was programmed for destruction in the mad war of the computer worlds - unless the Solarians could stop the machines!Three hundred years ago the Solarians retreated to the safety of their Fortress as Earth became embroiled in the first of the co...



  • The year is 1531. In a small hut on the slopes of the volcano Popocateptl, scholar and poet Alvaro de Sevilla reflects on his extraordinary life. For Alvaro was one of the small army of conquistadors who, some years earlier, set out to conquer an emp...



  • Why was HE WALKED AMONG US, described as the Magnum Opus of one of the best-known science fiction writers of the age, first published in German rather than Eng-lish? Why is its first English language edition electronic? What do conventional American ...



  • The first collection of Norman Spinrad's short stories in a decade and more, written after those in the collections THE LAST HURRAH OF THE GOLDEN HORDE, NO DIRECTION HOME, THE STAR SPANGLED FUTURE and OTHER AMERCAS.An original ebook first edition!...



  • "One of the greatest collections of science fiction short stories ever"--Goodreads.com"Norman Spinrad's finest, and most consistent, collection. There's not a bad story in the lot." --Bud Webster...



  • Bart Fraden came looking for a planet to conquer - and found the hell-hole of the galaxy: Sangre - the killer planet. For three centuries Sangre had been dominated by the sadistic Brotherhood of Pain, a priesthood dedicated to torture, slavery and c...



  • A novel about the fast-lane life in the publishing world, by the award-winning Norman Spinrad.It's fiction... but with a twist... it's autobiographical! A must read for all Spinrad fans.Meet Tom Hollander, an ex-junkie who earns his living as a fee r...



  • Norman Spinrad describes the writing of his famous BUG JACK BARRON novel by answering three questions: "how did I come to write Bug Jack Barron? what urged me to do it? how do I hope to continue writing SF while bugging editors?" He goes on to explai...



  • A hard look at the American Dream, and visions of things to come. From the shrapnel of an exploding culture, Norman Spinrad brings you pieces of tomorrow, fragments of America."I think we're living at a time when a whole civilization has died and a n...






  • Spinrad examines one of his most compelling obsessions - the possible "futures" of America.Street Meat: In New York City, streeties, zonies and subway cannibals are locked in a nighmarish scrabble for rat meat, sex - and survival.The Lost Continent: ...



  • It's just another sleazy, smoggy day at KLAX: But today is anything but normal. Green Army Commandos is what they call themselves. They're violent ecoterrorists, they're armed to the teeth, and they haven't just taken over the station - they're hijac...



  • THE NOVEL DEEMED TOO DANGEROUS TO BE PUBLISHED IN AMERICA--IS FINALLY PUBLISHED IN AMERICA! 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 n...



  • This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....



  • As an ambitious, alienated, and awesomely talented kid from the Bronx, Norman Spinrad rode the revolutionary “New Wave” of 1960s science fiction to fame, if not fortune. His usually angry, often hilarious, and always radical novels changed the fi...



  • A sharp commentary on politics with a contemporary, speculative twist Martin Luther Martin is a hard-working New Orleans cop, who has come up from the gangland of Alligator Swamp through hard work. When he has to serve his own eviction notice, he...



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    When eco-terrorists take over a Los Angeles TV station, the Action News Team has an exclusive on their own kidnapping and crucial issues come to light, including terrorism and the public's demand for tabloid entertainment...



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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Norman Spinrad has published 37 books.

Norman Spinrad does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The People's Police, was published in February 2017.

The first book by Norman Spinrad, Agent of Chaos, was published in January 1967.

No. Norman Spinrad does not write books in series.