Bøger af Norman Spinrad

"IF WAGNER WROTE SCIENCE FICTION THIS IS THE WAY HE WOULD DO IT."- Harry HarrisonRenowned science fiction writer Adolf Hitler's Hugo Award winning novel!Ferric Jaggar mounted the platform. A swastika of flame twenty feet high stood out in glory against the night sky behind him, bathing him in heroic firelight, flashing highlights off the brightwork of his gleaming black leather uniform, setting his powerful eyes ablaze."I hold in my hand the Great Truncheon of Held. I dedicate myself to the repurification of all Heldon with blood and iron, and to the extension of the dominion of True Humanity over the face of the entire Earth! Never will we rest until the last mutant gene is swept from the face of the planet!"

Norman Spinrad, acclaimed author of BUG JACK BARRON and CHILD OF FORTUNE, has create an extraordinarily powerful novel of sex, rock and revolution driven by a relentless 4/4 beat.It is the near future. Tens of millions now live in the streets. The City teems with Uzi-toting enforcers, kibble-munching streeties and wire heads plugged into the latest electronic high.And somewhere along the line, rock and roll has lost its soul - or rather sold it to a megacorporation that churns out synthesized hits with all the passion of the market research reports that dictate their demographic parameters.From the highest towers of the corporate world to the sex-and-thrill bars, to the death-infested streets, an explosion is about to take place."The Spinrad of BUG JACK BARRON is back with a vengeance. LITTLE HEROES is ferocious and funny, street smart and heartfelt."-William Gibson"LITTLE HEROES is written with wisdom, human warmth, astonishing insight, sophistication and the master touch. Norman Spinrad is a major literary figure of our time. It's a rare pleasure to read this engaging mind."-Timothy Leary"Vintage Spinrad. A novel which mourns the death of rock and roll - and celebrates its rebirth."-Michael Moorcock

A down-on-his-luck Hollywood director's actress wife is taken over by a Scientology-like mind game cult called Transformationalism.She disappears into the bowels of Transformationalism. He's determined to rescue her, to the point where pretends to be taken over too. Is he or isn't he? As he delves deeper and deeper (or higher and higher depending on what who believes), he's no longer sure himself.A novel about the power of cults, show biz and cults, and just maybe the nature of "reality"-assuming there is one.One of the real such cults took a certain offense with the author, there was a mysterious burglary with nothing of value taken, a few other such mind games...

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. He falls in love with and marries Soviet career bureaucrat Sonya Gagarin and the story jumps ahead 20 years, blending world events with a focus on their family. Sonya's star has risen with the Euro-Russians' while Jerry has been stymied by pervasive anti-Americanism. Daughter Franja has her father's space fever and enrolls in a Russian space school; son Bob, fiercely curious about an earlier, admired America before it was run by xenophobic "Gringos," enters Berkeley. Ten years later the U.S. is a pariah, Euro-Russia the pet of the civilized world and the Reeds scattered--politics forced Jerry and Sonya's divorce, Franja speaks only to her mother and Bob is trapped in "Festung Amerika." A series of odd, occasionally tragic events brings the family (and the world) together. Despite some tech-talk this is not science fiction: the first two-thirds of this hefty book is chillingly logical, if sometimes very funny, and while the "happy" ending may seem forced, Spinrad (BUG JACK BARRON) gives us a wild, exhilarating ride into the next century.

A hundred years from now, pollution, overpopulation, and ecological disasters have left the rich nations still rich, and the poor nations-the Lands of the Lost-slowly strangling in drought and pollution. New York City is below sea level, surrounded by a seawall. The climate in Paris is much like the twentieth-century climate of long-drowned New Orleans. And Siberia, Golden Siberia, is the crop-land of the world. Still, for the international corporations and businesses who make a profit on technofixing the environment-the Big Blue Machine-it is business as usual: sell what you can where you can whenever you can. It is better to be rich. But it all may be coming to a terrible end: a scientist has predicted Condition Venus, the sudden greenhouse downfall of the entire planet-but she can't say when. So now the attention of the world is focused for a week on a UN conference on the Environment in Paris, where all hell is about to break loose.GREENHOUSE SUMMER is the novel that not just predicts the next century of climate change, but what will be done about it.It also presents a positive if humanly less than perfect picture of what can fix our broken economic system, a story of idealism verses selfish self-interest. This is a book that needs to be read now."Shrewdly balances sensuality and realpolitik...this novel may be his most impressive balancing act yet."-Locus

In the Second Starfaring Age, humans travel the universe via a technology they barely understand, propelled by a space drive consisting of mysteriously complex mechanisms and, symbiotically linked to it, a living woman, the Void Pilot. Pilots are rare, and the ability to be a Pilot also entails physical wasting and a shortened life.But Pilots live only for the timeless moments of Transition, when their ships cross the emptiness of space in an instant. Now Void Pilot Dominique Alia Wu has begun to catch a glimpse of something more, something transcendent in that eternal moment . . . and she needs the cooperation of her Captain to achieve it permanently. Even at risk to the survival of the Ship.Norman Spinrad has been one of SF's most adventurous writers since the 1960s, an internationally praised peer of such writers as Harlan Ellison, Michael Moorcock, and Samuel R. Delany. His stories of the Second Starfaring Age, The Void Captain's Tale and the later novel Child of Fortune, form a single epic praised by the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction as "an eroticized vision of the Galaxy . . . an elated Wanderjahr among the sparkling worlds."

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 condemned to death as a foot soldier in the Army of the Living Dead; a scientist who's devoted his whole life to destroying the virus and now discovers he has only ten weeks to succeed; a God-fearing fundamentalist on his way to the presidency before he accepts a higher calling; and a young infected coed from Berkeley on a bizarre crusade to save the world with a new religion of carnal abandon. Each will discover that the only thing more dangerous than the Plague is the cure.

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 hijacking the news itself. The Bad News Is they've wired themselves and the station with enough high explosives to blow a significant hole in the planet they're trying to save-and they're ready to do it unless their entirely impossible demands are met. The Good News Is the KLAX Action News Team has an exclusive on the most explosive story of the decade-their own kidnapping-and the ratings are going through the roof.

TROUBLE IN PARADISE... 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 prime minister, and Royce Lindblad, her handsome young lover and media adviser, had to find a way to stop the Pink and Blue War-without becoming casualties themselves.

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 new one is being born." -Norman Spinrad

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.

For three hundred years the Solarians had isolated themselves from the galaxy with the promise to reappear one day to bring human victory. Now, with the very existence of the human race at stake in a war with the machine-like beings of the computer worlds, they re-emerged with a completely new social order. They possessed strange talents, such as telepathy and total recall. And they had an ingenious strategy for defeating the Duglaars.From the beginning, Jay Palmer had sensed their "otherness" but he had to accept them and their plan of surrendering earth to the merciless, computer-like Duglaars--it was the only hope left.

In the exotic interstellar civilization of the Second Starfaring Age, youthful wanderers are known as Children of Fortune. This is the tale of one such wanderer, who seeks her destiny on an odyssey of self-discovery amid humanity's many worlds. Arresting and visionary, Child of Fortune is a science-fictional On the Road.

NOVELA FINALISTA DEL PREMIO NEBULA "Dejen que Adolf Hitler les transporte a la Tierra del futuro lejano, donde solamente Federic Jaggar y su poderosa arma, el Cetro de Acero se alzan entre los restos de los autentica humanidad y las hordas de mutantes a los que perseveraos Dominantes controlan por completo. Aficionado de todo el mundo admiten que "EL señor de la esvástica" es la mas vivida y popular de las obras de Adolf Hitler; en 1954recibio el premio Hugo a la mejor novela del genero. Ahora puede obtenerla por fin en esta nueva edición, con un comentario de Homer Whipple, de la Universidad de Nueva Cork. Compruebe personalmente por qué tantos lectores han acudido a las paginas de esta novela, como un rayo de esperanza en tiempos tan sombríos y terribles como los nuestros". Así comienza El sueño de Hierro" una de las novelas más famosas y controvertidas de los últimos años, de la mano del norteamericano Norman Spinard. Se desarrolla en un mundo alternativo, dónde Hitler emigra a Estados Unidos en 1919, y éste se convierte en escritor de la novelas de ciencia ficción, alcanzando la cumbre en su obra "El Señor de la Esvástica". Una novela dura y sin concesiones; una critica contra el nazismo y el racismo, que no se puede leer sin quedar indiferente. "El Sueño de Hierro" es a la vez muchos libros, evidentes y ocultos: una descripción del nazismo como un festival sadomasoquista de acuerdo con los estereotipos de la ciencia ficción "patológica"; un puzzle literario que se ordena como aviso y advertencia; una historia que ha ocurrido y no ha ocurrido, comentada y parodiada "involuntariamente" por el protagonista principal, que en otro plano coincide con el seudo autor; una crónica de pesadillas ambiguas y recurrentes, que se multiplican reflejadas en espejos paralelos. El vértigo se apodera del lector, hasta que pronto descubre que ha perdido el rumbo y que ha entrado en el corazón mismo del horror contemporáneo. Norman Spinrad nació en Nueva York y ha escrito entre otros libros: "Bug Jack Barron" (1969), "El sueño de hierro" (1972), "No direction home" (1975). "El sueño de hierro" fue candidato al Nebula y al National Book Award, y en 1974 recibió en Francia el Prix Apollo a la mejor novela de ciencia ficción del año.

Centuries after the big smash, the successor civilization of Aquaria more or less flourishes on the west coast of what was once the United States, a society built on White Science, following the "law of muscle, sun, wind and water." Only the sorcerers of Space Systems, Inc., dare traffic in the "Black Sciences" of atomic, petroleum and physics which destroyed the old golden age of space, for they alone know of the higher destiny that awaits man in the abandoned Big Ear space station. For centuries, they have secretly infiltrated Aquarius through the gray town of La Mirage while crafting a spaceship capable of reaching the Big Ear and turning man's ears once more to the mysterious Songs from the Stars.Now, through the Aquarians Clear Blue Lou, perfect master of the Clear Blue Way, and Sunshine Sue, queen of the Word of Mouth communication network, they scheme to bring their ultimate scenario to fruition.Sex, love, emotion, karma, destiny, perhaps even The Way itself, all become elements in the scenario of Arnold Harker, Black Scientist, sorcerer, project manager of Operation Enterprise.But when Clear Blue Lou, Sunshine Sue and Arnold Harker finally confront the interstellar brotherhood of sentient beings, they find, each in his way, that The Galactic Way utterly transcends their hopes, wildest dreams and darkest fears. In this novel of science, mysticism and their ultimate synergistic fusion, Spinrad once again demonstrates his power to create a vivid future that encompasses our dreams of space."Dense and meaty, multi-layered...Spinrad leads the reader gently toward wider and more awesome vistas, expanding his mind as he goes"-Larry Niven"This is perhaps Spinrad's finest novel-deft, powerful, with ideas that ricochet through the story"-Greg Benford"Songs from the Stars is good old-fashioned science fiction set free from its old-fashioned puritan taboos"-Walter M. Miller, Jr."Remarkable...beautiful.... This is one of the most uplifting works I've read"-Philip Jose Farmer"Norman Spinrad is in top form for this one. A fine book, brilliantly written. I enjoyed every page of it."-Roger Zelazny

An all-new story designed to take a poke at both Christian fundamentalists and corporate CEOs, Raising Hell' is a rousing account of the fight to improve working conditions in Hell, with the help of such deceased immortals as Jimmy Hoffa, John L. Lewis and Cesar Chavez. 'The Abnormal New Normal', which casts a cold and razor-sharp eye on current trends in popular culture, shows how they reflect the domination of the one percent and suggests a radical fix. Also featured is PM Press' Outspoken Interview, the usual mix of intimate revelation, insight and outright lies.'