Songs From the Stars (40 page)

Greenhouse Summer (1999)

He Walked Amongst Us (2003)*

Collections

The Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde (1970)*

No Direction Home (1975)

The Star-Spangled Future (1979)

Other Americas (1988)

Deus X and Other Stories (2003)

Non-Fiction

Science Fiction In The Real World (1990)

Dedication

For

David Hartwell,

gentleman and scholar

Norman Spinrad (1940 – )

Norman Richard Spinrad was born in New York City in 1941. He began publishing science fiction in 1963 and has been an important, if sometimes controversial, figure in the genre ever since. He was a regular contributor to New Worlds magazine and, ironically, the cause of its banning by W H Smith, which objected to the violence and profanity in his serialised novel Bug Jack Barron. Spinrad's work has never shied away from the confrontational, be it casting Hitler as a spiteful pulp novelist or satirising the Church of Scientology. In addition to his SF novels, he has written non-fiction, edited anthologies and contributed a screenplay to the second season of Star Trek. In 2003, Norman Spinrad was awarded the Prix Utopia, a life achievement award given by the Utopiales International Festival in Frances, where he now lives.

Copyright

A Gollancz eBook

Copyright © Norman Spinrad 1980

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This eBook first published in Great Britain in 2011 by Gollancz, The Orion Publishing Group Ltd, Orion House, 5 Upper Saint Martin's Lane, London, WC2H 9EA. An Hachette UK Company

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ISBN 978 0 575 11724 2

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