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Norman Richard Spinrad (born September 15, 1940) is an American science fiction author, essayist, and critic. His fiction has won the Prix Apollo and been nominated for numerous awards, including the Hugo Award and multiple Nebula Awards.
The Iron Dream is a metafictional 1972 alternate history novel by American author Norman Spinrad. The book has a nested narrative that tells a story within a story. On the surface, the novel presents a post-apocalyptic adventure tale entitled Lord of the Swastika, written by an alternate-history Adolf Hitler shortly before his death in 1953.
Norman Spinrad has 345 books on Goodreads with 58646 ratings. Norman Spinrad’s most popular book is Bug Jack Barron.
Spinrad served as President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) from 1980 to 1982 and again from 2001 to 2002. Born in New York in 1940, Norman Spinrad is an acclaimed SF writer.
Sep 22, 2013 · Norman Spinrad has easily the most fitting surname of any science-fiction writer to have yet appeared in print, so good in fact that if he didn’t exist another author would have surely made him up. Spinner of radical ideas and teller of tall tales is the essence of what a science-fiction writer does and is practically part of the job description.
Spinrad, Norman. Entry updated 8 April 2024. Tagged: Author. (1940- ) US author, born in New York – where he set some impressive fiction – but resident in France for many years; married to N Lee Wood (1990-2005).
Norman Spinrad’s 1972 novel “by Adolph Hitler" is a still-relevant attack on the connection between our concepts of heroism and fascism.
Recommended Reads Norman Spinrad is the author of over twenty novels, including BUG JACK BARRON, THE IRON DREAM, CHILD OF FORTUNE, PICTURES AT 11, GREENHOUSE SUMMER, and THE DRUID KING. He has also published something like 60 short stories collected in half a dozen volumes.
Norman Spinrad. Writer: Star Trek. Norman Spinrad was born on 15 September 1940 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a writer, known for Star Trek (1966), The Red Siren (2002) and Land of the Lost (1974). He was previously married to N. Lee Wood.
The French edition of this novel earned Spinrad the 1974 Prix Apollo. In the '70s, he also had collections The Last Hurrah of the Golden Horde (1970), The Star-Spangled Future (1979), as well as novels Riding the Torch (1978) and A World Between (1979).
