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Norman Spinrad

Lifespan: 1940–
Nationality: American
Active: 1964
Works held: 1

Norman Spinrad (born 1940) has been one of science fiction’s most confrontational voices since the 1960s. Bug Jack Barron shocked with its media-and-politics satire; The Iron Dream reframes an alternate-history Hitler as a pulp SF novelist to skewer the genre’s own fascist undercurrents. A restless, political writer and past president of the SFWA.

The works

1964

Subjectivity

Wrote across

Recurring themes

Space Opera Psychic Powers

Kindred authors shared themes

Alan Edward Nourse Alan J. Ramm Alfred Coppel Algis Budrys Anthony Gilmore Arthur J. Burks Basil Wells Bill Wesley

Contemporaries writing in the same era

Randall Garrett Keith Laumer Mack Reynolds Jack Sharkey Jim Harmon Murray Leinster James H. Schmitz Laurence M. Janifer Robert F. Young H. B. Fyfe

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