Norman Spinrad , born the September 15th 1940 with New York, is an American author of Science-fiction . He lives since several years with Paris.

Biography

Norman Spinrad was born in 1940 in the Bronx from New York where it passes its childhood. In 1957, it enters to the City College off New York where it off obtains in 1961 a Bachelor Science.

During its last year of study, it follows courses of writing of news and subjects its first stories to various magazines. Its first text, The Last off the Romany is published in 1963 by the Magazine Analog .

He works then like editor, while continuing to publish news regularly. Its first novel, The Solarians , is published in 1966, year during which he moves with San Francisco, then with Los Angeles and finally with London.

Of 1980 with 1982, he is president of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers off America (he will be again named president of this association in 2001 - 2002). It is in 1982 that Spinrad sells the rights filmographic of its novel Jack Barron and Eternity ( Bug Jack Barron ) with Universal Pictures (the film was finally never carried out).

In 1988, Spinrad still moves for Paris, where he writes his novel Russian Spring ( Russian Spring ), with his/her partner, Nancy Lee Wood (also writer) which he marries in 1990.

Spinrad is an author of atypical novels based on sulfurous topics. It publishes in its career about thirty novels, two Anthologie S and four collections of Nouvelle S. For the anecdote, it also wrote the scenario of an episode of the second season of the series Star Trek entitled The Doomsday Machine ( the Explosive device French ).

Works

• Solariens ( The Solarians , 1966, ISBN 2-207-24935-2 - Marabout Science fiction N°329, 1969): the human beings are losing an interstellar war against extraterrestrial creatures, Doglaaris. The inhabitants of the solar system, Solariens, who lived with the variation of the other men since centuries are from now on the only hope of humanity.
• These men in the jungle or final Chaos ( The Men in the Jungle , 1967, ISBN 2-207-24937-9): Space operated; a cynical fighter and schemer flee in good company on a peripheral planet without another interest for him that his insulation; quickly given of its frights, its ambition makes him dream of Empire. But is not so soft which one believed to crunch! A bloody, bloody, bloody novel. to make draw up the hair on the head.
• Pioneers of Chaos ( Agent off Chaos , 1967) - Titles sf N°11, 1979
• Barron Jack and eternity ( Bug Jack Barron , 1969, ISBN 2-290-32113-3): If one day were discovered the means of making the man immortal, but at an appalling price, which force could be opposed to the blackmail those which would hold the secrecy of it? Spinrad thinks that only the farmhouses media could constitute a recourse, provided that a man alone can reach it on line and has the will to do it. Policy and media are entrechoquent in this novel, masterpiece which ensured the celebrity of its author. In filigree, the work constitutes also an indictment on the exploitation of the third world. At the time of its prepublication in the British magazine New Worlds at the end of the Sixties, this novel raised a real scandal in the United Kingdom, so much so that it was evoked by the deputies with the House of Commons.
• Dream of iron ( The Iron Dream , 1972, ISBN 2-070-32052-9): Certain Adolf Hitler, not managing to found a political movement, emigrates with the United States, writing of the novels of heroic fantasy, including one, the Lord of the Swatiska , in which one can find all his ideology. Principle even of the Uchronie, this novel presents the originality to have two jackets, the second of the novel of Hitler being preceded by a foreword and followed by a postface pseudo-history making even more credible the matter of Norman Spinrad of a world not having lived the second world war in the form than we know.
• Passing Through the Flame (1975)
• Riding the Torch (1978)
• the Great War of blue and the pinks ( has world between , 1979, ISBN 2-221-07635-4 - Presses Pocket Science-fiction N°5212, 1985): the arrival of spaceships starts a war of the sexes on Pacifica, a democratic planet.
• Songs of the stars ( Songs from the Stars , 1980, ISBN 2-266-02098-6): Aquaria is an post-apocalyptic region governed by the principles of science " blanche" renewable energies (laws of the sun, wind, muscle and water). Science " there is rejected; noire" ancestors who rested on the atom and fossil energies and led old land civilization to his loss. The discovery of illegal components resulting from black science suddenly calls into question the fragile balance which founds the prosperity of Aquaria. Is it necessary to see a plot of Space there, the members of a mysterious organization of wizard followers of black science?
• Mirrors of the spirit ( The Mind Range , 1980)
• the Last Cruising of the Dragon-Zéphir ( The Void Captain' S Bruises , 1982)
• The Process (1983)
• the DER of DER ( World' S Last War , 1985)
• the Child of fortune ( Child off Fortune , 1985)
• After the Flames (1985) with Robert Silverberg and Michael P. Kube-McDowell
• Rock Machine ( Little Heroes , 1987) - Livre of Pocket N°7166, 1994
• the Years plagues (1990). Tois news brushing the portrait, in different forms, of declining America at the edge of collapse.
• Russian Spring ( Russian Spring , 1991, ISBN 2070415899 and ISBN 2070415902): exploration in 2 tome cheeses of the life of a family related to the space conquest since the years 60s. The history anticipatrice of sclerosed America face Russia, victorious of the cold war, dynamic, modern and integrated into Europe. This book presents five generations of adventurers of space where the force of the family and the hope entrechoquent with the contingencies and tactical political Large Blocks of the beginning of the XXIe century. Russian Spring was crowned by the Prix Cosmos 2000 in 1993.
• The Children off Hamelin (1991)
• the Swallowers of vacuum (1993)
• Two ex ( Deus X , 1993)
• On line ( Pictures At 11 , 1994)
• Vamps ( Vampire Junkies , 1994)
• Journals off the Plague Years (1995)
• open Ligne ( Voice Over , 1996)
• Bleue like an orange ( Greenhouse Summer , 1999, ISBN 2-290-32577-5): will the greenhouse effect pack and the Earth to become similar to Venus? In a world post-capitalist overpowered of heat, Spinrad depicts alive, funny and original Paris tropical on bottom of industrial espionage. A true philosophical reflection on the climate changes.
• He Walked Among Custom (2002)
• The Druid King (2003): the fight of Vercingétorix against Jules César. It should be noted that Norman Spinrad also took part in the development of the scenario of a bearing film on the same topic: Vercingétorix: The legend of the druid king.
• Mexica (2005)

News

• the last of Romani ( The Last off the Romani , 1963)
• Subjectivity ( Subjectivity , 1964)
• angels of cancer ( Carcinomia Angels , 1968)
• the last hurrah of the gold Horde ( The Last Hurrah off the Golden delicious Horde , 1969). An adventure of Jerry Cornelius (character creates by Michael Moorcock and taken again also by Moebius in its cartoon the hermetic Garage ).
• the large flash ( The Big Flash , 1969)
• the grass of time ( The Weed off Time , 1970)
• Unintermitting lost ( Unintermitting Lost , 1970)
• Nowhere where to go ( No Direction Home , 1971)
• the beauty of the thing ( has off Thing Beauty , 1972)
• Souvenir family ( Heirloom , 1972)
• All sounds of the rainbow ( All the Sounds off the Rainbow , 1973)
• Blackout ( Blackout , 1977)

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