NORMAN SPINRAD
Click here to email
Updated April 2009
A "Norman Spinrad Appreciation Group" has been started on Facebook
If you're interested, here's the link below. I believe you have to be
a member of Facebook though.
WELCOME TO YOUR DREAMTIME
I've just finished a new novel called WELCOME TO YOUR DREAMTIME, which
I wrote without a contract with a publisher because it's by far the most
radical and experimental book I've ever written, and I wasn't sure I could
actually write such a thing until I did. It's written almost entirely in second
person singular, that is, you, the reader are the hero and heroine, the viewpoint
characters, of dreams that can be bought on chips and played back to you
as you sleep. Among other things, it's the story of the rise, threatened
fall, and redemption of this artform, and if it works maximally, it will
leave at least some readers with the power of a form of lucid dreaming. Portions
of WELCOME TO YOUR DREAMTIME have already been published as free-standing
short stories in Baen's Universe and Weird Tales.
HE WALKED AMONG US published as IL EST PARMI NOUS
by French publisher Fayard
to be published in English by Tor February 2010
OSAMA THE GUN to be published by Fayard in Spring 2010
Fayard is a very major French literary house, and they approached
me with an offer to buy world rights to both novels.. Having been unable
to find an English language publisher for HE WALKED AMONG US for about
a decade and OSAMA THE GUN for several years, I was happy to accept and
become a "French writer" for these books, and maybe more. I have just
returned from France where a fabulous major launch campaign was arranged
for IL EST PARMI NOUS was arranged--signings, text and radio interviews
(all in French!). And now, Tor has bought US rights to OSAMA THE GUN
after all these years.. Vive la France! At this writing, English
language rights to OSAMA THE GUN remain available. A portion
of OSAMA THE GUN, which I've posted on Scribd (see link on this
web page below) has thusfar been downloaded (in English) about 40,000
times.
VAMPIRE JUNKIES
the movie
Mathieu Carriere ndI are co-producing a film adaptation of my short novel
VAMPIRE JUNKIES, starring Mathieu Carriere as Count Dracula. Jerome Lefdup
has made a short presentation video. The novella itself is available from
Fictionwise, see link further below. We've got the cast, the director, the
script, and so forth and are ready to go. But we've still got some room left
for a few more investors. If you're interested, you can contact me at the
email link directly above.
Ediciones B México esta publicando MEXICA en espanol-- en México
un lanzamiento especial
Descubre una visión única de la conquista del Imperio Azteca,
Moctezuma, Cortés y los Conquistadores--el regreso de Quetzalcoatl
y la caída del imperio Mexica marcan le muerte del Quinto Sol, una
nueva era esta por comenzar.
En ingles--pardon my English
It would exhaust my meager Spanish to tell this. I went to Mexico for
the launch of MEXICA there, and it was quite fantastic and wonderful. A launch
event which you can see via the above link to the special web site Ediciones
B has set up for the book. Over 30 interviews, large intitial printing.
Ads, banners, actual billboards! However well this all does or does not
do, Ediciones B did everything that a writer wants a publisher to do, and
did it right. Wonderful warm people doing their things with more professionalism
and panache than anything I've ever seen (or for that matter heard of) in
the US. MUCHAS GRACIAS, AMIGOS!
DEUS X Now Available from Fine Tooth Press
Fine Tooth Press has published a new trade paperback edition of DEUS X
Now available from Amazon
RIDING THE TORCH
RIDING THE TORCH, my Jupiter Award winning short novel, is now availble
directly from Renaisance ebooks and shortly from Fictionwise and elsewhere.
VOICE OVER radio play now on the Internet air
Broken Sea, a kind of web radio station, has produced VOICE OVER, which
I indeed wrote as a very short radio play for Omni a long time ago.
Dona Sadock and Norman Spinrad on MNN TV in New York
Dona and I were interviewed on Channel 56 in New York. Below is a link
to the complete half hour interview put on You Tube. The quality therefore
is not as good as what was orginally aired.
FICTIONWISE
I've put e-versions of some of my stories, short novels, and my novel
MEXICA on Fictionwise. Maybe more to come.
An experiment in distributed Web presence
MeTube on YouTube & Me on MySpace
I've set up a video channel on YouTube called MeTube. And then a page
on MySpace which is at present more or less a mirror of it, but that may
change as the experiment continues. What I'm trying to do is establish a web
presence for my content which is multiplexly distributed in ways I haven't
yet completely figured out yet--conceiving of YouTube, MySpace, this web page,
as elements in an elusive whole. Here I will try to keep an updated list
of what's been posted and where, and the links to the "MeTube" front page
and that of my MySpace front page and where what may be found by going to
them.
ONLY CHAOS IS REAL, music video made by me (on MeTube & MySpace) THE
DOOMSDAY MACHINE RELOADED & SAVING STAR TREK (on MeTube & MySpace)
OSAMA THE GUN--parts 1-4, the past, present, and a segue into the futrure
of "the war on terror" (on MeTube & MySpace) BUG JACK BARRON--the (not)film--the
inside story of why the movie hasn't been made despite dozens of producers
and directors who have wanted to do it over the years. (on MySpace and MeTube,
but with extra interacton on MeTube) WHY WE ARE REALLY IN IRAQ--how Bush
used the evangelicals and they used him to create the mess, and how the former
were conned big time if they believe in the Rapture. (on MeTube & MySpace)
OSAMA THE GUN part 5--the novel
The video tells the story of how my unpublished last-written novel OSAMA
THE GUN came to be written, why I was compelled to write it even though I
knew full well finding an American publisher to publish it, let alone an
Arabic one, would be exceedingly difficult. I'm still having trouble finding
a publisher with such cojones, which is one of the reasons I made the OSAMA
THE GUN videos. All explained in this last OSAMA THE GUN VIDEO. Below, for
convenience, direct links to the specific video on both YouTube and MySpace.
OSAMA THE GUN
the freeware portion
This is NOT the complete text of the novel OSAMA THE
GUN ! This is the first third of the novel
This portion of OSAMA THE GUN is Freeware I am making
this portion available as freeware as widely as possible because publishers
have been rejecting OSAMA THE GUN the completed novel for reasons I dare
to suggest are largely political, and for reasons that will I believe be obvious
to anyone who reads even this portion, they are the same reasons this novel
needs to be published and read. If you want to know more about what this
is all about and why the author of over 20 novels is doing a thing like this,
go to my YouTube channel “MeTube” and have a look at the videos OSAMA THE
GUN parts 1-5. As far as I’m concerned, this matter transcends the literary
in the era in which we all find ourselves, and the reasons why publishers
are frightened of publishing OSAMA THE GUN are the very reasons it should
be read, and widely, in the west, and in the Islamic world. For those of
you reading the portion and want to read the rest of the novel, I’m enlisting
your aid. Redistribute this freeware file. Email me at: normanspinrad@hotmail.com
And just say you want to read the novel. I’ll put all those emails in a
file and keep a running count. If you want to castigate me for what I’m
doing, email me and I’ll keep those in a file and count them too.
I've now put on Scribd the essay that led me to write OSAMA THE GUN and
do the videos, KNOW YOUR ENEMY. This is freeware as a public service. Redistribution
encouraged.
And also THE EXIT STRATEGY FROM IRAQ--From the Hotseat to the Catbird
seat, in turn inspired by writing OSAMA THE GUN the novel and making the
videos. What I believe is the only way out of this mess without a worse catastrophe.
Public service freeware. Read it and see if you or anyone else has a better
idea.
ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF--a video bibliography on YouTube
A narrated bibliography of all my novels, I think, illustrated by some
of the covers. Hardly completist, but interesting, and something I think
I'm going to make cross-platform use of. A CD of this would make a novel press
and publishing presentation. I think maybe I'm inventing something here.
MARIJUANA DAY PARADE IN NEW YORK
My first attempt at video reportage on MeTube, using a phone camera, the
New York version of World Marjiuana Day in New York.
I'm also a performer in a music video called VOTE FOR ME on YouTube! Check
it out!
INDEX
GATEWAY TO THE INTERIOR
Click here for Index
stories, radio play, cookbook, news, covers, more. Including my eyewitness
account of 9/11. I was there, and up close.
MEXICA
Hardcover published by Little Brown in the UK in November 2005, in the
US by Trafagar Square in April 2006, Abacus trade paperback published in
the UK September 2006.
Film "coverage"
There's now a project to produce a film of MEXICA, and I was asked to
write "coverage" in connection with it. This is a short document to be used
to interest financers, actors, directors, etc. But it will also give readers
of the novel a good idea of what they would be reading, so here it is.
FREE!!
Read, download, copy, distribute a sample of MEXICA
OSAMA THE GUN
I started a column for a website called Timessqquare.com which went nowhere.
But the first column, TO KNOW YOUR ENEMY, was the direct inspiration for
the novel I recently completed, OSAMA THE GUN. To learn how and why, click
on the link to the column.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY LAST UPDATE 2005
Gale Press commissioned my autobiography for an ongoing series of anthologies
of writers' autobiographies, Part 1, and later commissioned the update, part
two. This was here in 2 parts, now it's combined, cleaned up, and on scribd,
where it can be downloaded in several formats. Very experimental form.
Some day I hope to expand these Gale Press autobiographies into a full book.
Space constraints mean that many many things have been left out.
ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK
publishing, lies, and real estate Why I find myself trapped in the Big
Apple
THE DRUID KING
Published in the UK by Little Brown in February 2003 and by Time Warner
in mass market paperback in August 2004. Published by Alfred A. Knopf in
the US in August 2003 and in Vintage trade paperback in August 2004.
Vintage trade paperback cover
Time Warner UK Mass Market Paperback Cover
I've put the full text of THE DRUID KING on line as shareware at Scribd,
though the trade paperback is still available. Sort of an experiment to
see how many people would be interested in an e-version under such conditions
and whether anyone would actually volunarily pay anything for it.
Knopf in-house interview
More far-ranging that the usual in-house interview, though centered, of
course, on THE DRUID KING
Und auf Deutsch bei Goldmann (12/002) als DER DRUIDENKOENIG erschienen
HE WALKED AMONG US
published in German as
DIE TRANSFORMATION
Heyne Verlag, my main German publisher for years, published HE WALKED
AMONG US in German. And the German edition is the first edition
INTERVIEW AUF DEUTSCH
This is an extensive interview in German concerning HE WALKED AMONG US
and other matters
BUG JACK BARRON
My classic novel of sex, politics, television, and immortality once more
available in the US from Overlook Press.
(aussi nouvelle edition francaise chez J'ai Lu)
JACK BARRON ET L'ETERNITE
WOODY ALLEN interview
The full English language transcript of an interview with Woody Allen
commissioned by the French newspaper LIBERATION and published in shorter
French translation there in connection with the opening of his new film CELEBRITY.
As you'll see, we sort of ended up interviewing each other. It's been suggested
that some magazine might like to publish the English version, since it's
appeared only in French. Rights are available. E-mail through this site. I
also have a one hour tape of the complete interview. Near air-quality, done
with pretty good equipment. Radio rights available.
LIVE PERFORMANCE AT THE TRANSMUSICAL FESTIVAL IN RENNES
I performed live as a vocalist, 4 pieces as lead, 1 as backing, at the
Transmusical festival in Rennes. Packed house in club-like atmosphere, 500
+. Went over well. Tremendous rush! If you dare and are patient, you can
hear it all via the web and MP3 by clicking the link below. And/or click on
"More" for further details first.
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
ENGLISH BIBLIOGRAPHY
the best I've found
BIBLIOGRAPHIE FRANCAISE par Jean-Jacques GIRARDOT tres complet
BIBLIOGRAPHIE AUF DEUTSCH
ITALIAN BIBLIOGRAPHY by Ernesto VEGETTI