Norman Spinrad

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Appelez-le Ismael, comme au debut de Moby Dick, c'est le pseudonyme qu'il utilise quand il ecrit de la fiction de conscience extra-terrestre. Sa mission ? Apporter la litterature aux confins de l'Univers... Elle, elle s'appelle Page et elle se demande depuis combien de temps plus personne n'ose sortir dans Paris apres le lever du soleil. Difficile a dire quand nul ne sait lire un calendrier... Comme tous les matins, Quintilien se reveille avant l'aube, pour pratiquer ses exercices de diction, mais en sortant de son cubiculum il a failli marcher sur une tablette de cire deposee sur le seuil par l'IA qui se fait appeler Le Createur... Ca devait etre joli, avant..., dit Adlinn en designant le fleuve qui s'appelait autrefois la Seine et dont le meandre arrache un triste sourire aux ruines qui s'etendent a perte de vue... Belles Lettres Ad Astra, La nuit des livres, Premieres lettres et De l'avant, quatre nouvelles de science-fiction par quatre maitres du genre: Norman Spinrad, Valerie Mangin, Raphael Granier de Cassagnac et Pierre Bordage. Chacune esquisse un futur possible de ce que seront les Belles Lettres en MMCXIX. Au debut de la Premiere Guerre mondiale, un erudit se desolait de ne pouvoir emporter dans son paquetage une edition critique francaise d'Homere. La legende veut qu'ainsi fut concu le projet d'une maison consacree a l'edition savante des textes anciens, la societe Les Belles Lettres, fondee en 1919. Un siecle plus tard, ce recueil de nouvelles est la pour assurer aux amoureux de la culture que la maison a la chouette continuera a faire rayonner l'humanisme.

THE NOVEL DEEMED TOO DANGEROUS TO BE PUBLISHED IN AMERICA--IS FINALLY PUBLISHED IN AMERICA! OSAMA THE GUN, set in a not-so-far future when the "Sons of Osama" have established a powerful Islamic Caliphate with Pakistani nuclear weapons and Arabian oil money, is the story of one of those "sons" of the martyr, a naive and sincere young man who becomes a Caliphate secret agent to escape its closed confines and see the world -- and finds himself becoming the reluctant hero of the title. Osama the Gun becomes a terrorist leader on a small scale by happenstance, a mercenary used by Islamic forces fighting an American proxy invasion in the oil lands of Nigeria, an iconic figure in the manner of "El Che." All the while he charms the reader as a likable, sincere, idealistic, and sympathetic human doing very unsympathetic things to the interests of the United States of America. "I wanted the reader to hate the sin, but love the sinner, because I felt it had to be done, and since no one else seemed to be willing to do it, I had to try to do it myself, come what may. Because Islam was being confused with its radical Middle Eastern jihadhis, and Arabs in general with terrorists, and it seemed to me that the alien jihadhist consciousness had to be experienced from within and empathetically understood. Which was why OSAMA THE GUN had to be written, and why, as one foaming at the mouth rejection letter predicted, no American publisher would touch this book." -- Norman Spinrad

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 se or de la esv stica" 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 edici n, con un comentario de Homer Whipple, de la Universidad de Nueva Cork. Compruebe personalmente por qu tantos lectores han acudido a las paginas de esta novela, como un rayo de esperanza en tiempos tan sombr os y terribles como los nuestros." As comienza El sue o de Hierro" una de las novelas m s famosas y controvertidas de los ltimos a os, de la mano del norteamericano Norman Spinard. Se desarrolla en un mundo alternativo, d nde Hitler emigra a Estados Unidos en 1919, y ste se convierte en escritor de la novelas de ciencia ficci n, alcanzando la cumbre en su obra "El Se or de la Esv stica." Una novela dura y sin concesiones; una critica contra el nazismo y el racismo, que no se puede leer sin quedar indiferente. "El Sue o de Hierro" es a la vez muchos libros, evidentes y ocultos: una descripci n del nazismo como un festival sadomasoquista de acuerdo con los estereotipos de la ciencia ficci n "patol gica"; 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 cr nica de pesadillas ambiguas y recurrentes, que se multiplican reflejadas en espejos paralelos. El v rtigo se apodera del lector, hasta que pronto descubre que ha perdido el rumbo y que ha entrado en el coraz n mismo del horror contempor neo. Norman Spinrad naci en Nueva York y ha escrito entre otros libros: "Bug Jack Barron" (1969), "El sue o de hierro" (1972), "No direction home" (1975). "El sue o de hierro" fue candidato al Nebula y al National Book Award, y en 1974 recibi en Francia el Prix Apollo a la mejor novela de ciencia ficci n del a o.

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...

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

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

"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 "

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."

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.

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.

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

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

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