NORMAN SPINRAD
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Updated February 2010
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.
HE WALKED AMONG US
to be published by Tor April 2010
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