Norman Spinrad

Norman Richard Spinrad (born September 15, 1940) is an American science fiction author. One of his most famous works, Bug Jack Barron, a tale of a cynical, exploitative talk-show host who gradually uncovers a conspiracy around an immortality treatment and the methods used in that treatment, was serialised in the British magazine New Worlds during Michael Moorcock's editorship. It was this novel, with its explicit language and cynical attitude to politicians, that aroused an English Member of Parliament's ire at the magazine's partial funding by the British Arts Council.

Selected Works

Novels

• The Solarians (1966)
• Agent of Chaos (1967)
• The Men in the Jungle (1967)
• Bug Jack Barron (1969)
• The Iron Dream (1972)
• Passing through the Flame (1975)
• Riding the Torch (1978)
• A World Between (1979)
• Songs from the Stars (1980)
• The Mind Game (1980)
• The Void Captain's Tale (1983)
• Child of Fortune (1985)
• Little Heroes (1987)
• Children of Hamelin (1991)
• Russian Spring (1991)
• Pictures at 11 (1994)
• Journals of the Plague Years (1995)
• Greenhouse Summer (1999)

Collections

• The Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde (1970)
• No Direction Home (May 1975)
• The Star-Spangled Future (1979)
• Other Americas (1988)
• Vampire Junkies (1994)

Teleplays

• The Doomsday Machine (Star Trek)