@booklet {9404, title = {{\textquotedblleft}Raising Hell{\textquotedblright}}, howpublished = {Raising Hell plus {\textquotedblleft}The Abnormal New Normal{\textquotedblright} plus {\textquotedblleft}No Regrets, No Retreat, No Surrender{\textquotedblright} Outspoken Interview }, year = {2014}, month = {2014}, pages = {1-65}, publisher = {PM Press}, address = {Oakland, CA}, abstract = {

Satire on both labor unions and hell, in which damned union leaders manage to organize the demons and win a contract with the Devil.\ 

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940)} } @booklet {6413, title = {He Walked Among Us}, year = {2010}, note = {

First published in French translation as\ Il est parmi nous: roman.\ Trans. Sylvie Denis and Roland C. Wagner. Paris: Fayard, 2009.

}, month = {2010}, publisher = {Tor}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia. Long, complex novel focusing on a man from a dystopian future created because the biosphere was destroyed, and people live in sealed shopping malls. In the past (our present) the man hopes to stop the actions that brought about the future. The novel focuses on his activities in the present\ and the people who make him a media star.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940)} } @booklet {9368, title = {Osama the Gun}, year = {2010}, note = {

Originally published as Oussama: Roman. Trans. Niki Copper. Paris: Fayard, 2010. First published in English as an ebook.

}, month = {2010}, publisher = {Wildside Press}, address = {Holicong, PA}, abstract = {

Dystopia in which descendants of Osama bin Laden (1957-2011), the al-Qaeda leader, have established a Caliphate in Pakistan and have nuclear weapons. The novel follows one such man who becomes a secret agent to escape the Caliphate and see the world.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940)} } @booklet {6156, title = {"The Brown Revolution: No longer number two"}, howpublished = {Nature}, volume = { 455.7212}, year = {2008}, month = {September 25, 2008}, pages = {564}, abstract = {

Satire. The global warming and oil crises are solved by using the manure produced by all life to replace oil.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940)} } @booklet {5036, title = {Greenhouse Summer}, year = {1999}, month = {1999}, publisher = {Tor}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Ecological dystopia.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940)} } @booklet {9153, title = {Deus X}, year = {1993}, note = {

Rpt. in his Deus X and Other Stories (Waterville, ME: Five Star, 2003), 90-140.\ 

}, month = {1993}, publisher = {Bantam Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

The setting of the novel is a future Earth so devastated by the results of current environmental policies that human life on Earth is in danger. The novel focuses on the creation of people within an electronic net and the problems this poses for the Catholic Church and its female pope.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940)} } @booklet {4272, title = {Russian Spring}, year = {1991}, month = {1991}, publisher = {Bantam Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

A future with a revitalized Russia and Europe and a stagnating United States.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940)} } @booklet {3983, title = {"Journals of the Plague Years."}, howpublished = {Full Spectrum}, year = {1988}, note = {

Rpt. as\ Journals of the Plague Years. New York: Bantam Books, 1995.

}, month = {1988}, pages = {410-83, with an editors{\textquoteright} note on 409}, publisher = {Bantam Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia. An AIDS-like pandemic/plague spreads throughout the world and anyone with it is put into a quarantine zone. Written from the point of view of both those with the plague and those fighting it. At the end a virus defeats the plague, and an introductory statement written fron Luna City in 2143 suggests a eutopian outcome.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940)}, editor = {Lou Aronica and Shawna McCarthy} } @booklet {3984, title = {"La Vie Continue"}, howpublished = {Other Americas}, year = {1988}, month = {1988}, pages = {179-273 with an "Introduction to {\textquoteright}La Vie Continue{\textquoteright}" on 175-77}, publisher = {Bantam Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia of a future America that tries to co-opt or, if that fails, kill authors who oppose the current regime.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940)} } @booklet {3883, title = {Little Heroes}, year = {1987}, month = {1987}, publisher = {Bantam Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Complex novel depicting a future U.S. dystopia. Commercial control; drugs; financial depression. Reality Liberation Front and rock and roll will provide a touch of hope, but they will probably lose out to commercialization.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940)} } @booklet {3630, title = {Child of Fortune}, year = {1985}, month = {1985}, publisher = {Bantam Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Describes a number of different eutopias as seen through the eyes of a young woman on her wanderjahr, her period of wandering the galaxy, at the end of which each person chooses their \"freenom\". The novel is set in the same time frame as his non-utopian The Void Captain\&$\#$39;s Tale. New York: Timescape, 1983.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940)} } @booklet {3485, title = {"Street Meat"}, howpublished = {Isaac Asimov{\textquoteright}s Science Fiction Magazine }, volume = {17.13 }, year = {1983}, note = {

Rpt. in his\ Other Americas\ (New York: Bantam Books, 1988), 1-43.

}, month = {Mid-December 1983}, pages = {130-66}, abstract = {

Dystopia. A future of extreme poverty versus great wealth. The poor are fed \"people kibble\" and can buy cooked rats on the street for meat.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {1065-6298 }, author = {Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940)} } @booklet {3205, title = {The Mind Game}, year = {1980}, note = {

Rpt. New York: Bantam Books, 1985.

}, month = {1980}, publisher = {Jove}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Authoritarian dystopia brought about through mental control.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940)} } @booklet {3206, title = {Songs from the Stars}, year = {1980}, month = {1980}, publisher = {Simon \& Schuster}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Ecological eutopia that develops initially as a conflict between those practicing the old science of physics and those who have rejected that science. By the end of the novel, the two groups are forced to work together.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940)} } @booklet {3119, title = {A World Between}, year = {1979}, month = {1979}, pages = {343 pp.}, publisher = {Pocket Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Pacifica is a decentralized, electronic democracy with gender equality threatened by two authoritarian dystopias, one lesbian, one technological.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, isbn = {0-671-82876-2}, author = {Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940)} } @booklet {2795, title = {"Sierra Maestra"}, howpublished = {Analog Science Fiction--Science Fact }, volume = {95.1}, year = {1975}, note = {

Rpt. in his\ The Star-Spangled Future\ (New York: Ace Books, 1979), 293-305 with an \"Introduction to Sierra Maestra\" (291-92).

}, month = {October 1975}, pages = {147-54}, abstract = {

The revolutionaries of the New Left abandon revolution and infiltrate the economic and political system until they can take over and institute their policies. The story ends just as they succeed. The policies mentioned include 100 per cent tax on profits, forgiveness of all government debt, and prohibition of private ownership of all cars.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, issn = {1059-2113 }, author = {Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940)} } @booklet {2611, title = {"The National Pastime."}, howpublished = {Nova }, volume = {3}, year = {1973}, note = {

U.K. ed. (London: Sphere, 1975), 96-113. Rpt. in his\ The Star-Spangled Future\ (New York: Ace Books 1979), 171-97 with an \"Introduction to The National Pastime\" (169-70).

}, month = {1973}, pages = {119-44}, publisher = {Walker}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia of violence with combat football.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940)}, editor = {Harry [Max] Harrison (1925-2012)} } @booklet {2540, title = {The Iron Dream}, year = {1972}, month = {1972}, publisher = {Avon}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

From an alternative history in which Hitler becomes an SF writer. This presents Hitler\&$\#$39;s novel Lord of the Swastika (1953) (Won Hugo 1954) and a scholarly afterword. The novel presents a far future earth where Nazi\&$\#$39;s struggle for power.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940)} } @booklet {2414, title = {"No Direction Home"}, howpublished = {New Worlds Quarterly }, volume = {2}, year = {1971}, note = {

Rpt. in The Best Science Fiction of the Year $\#$1. Ed. Terry Carr (New York: Ballantine Books, 1972), 227-44; in his The Star-Spangled Future (New York: Ace Books 1979), 263-86 with an \“Introduction to No Direction Home\” (261-62), and in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 663-66 with an editor\’s note on 663.\ 

}, month = {1971}, pages = {29-46}, publisher = {Berkley Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Drug dystopia in which psychedelics are used in all aspects of life.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940)}, editor = {Michael [John] Moorcock (b. 1939)} } @booklet {2317, title = {"The Lost Continent."}, howpublished = {Science Against Man}, year = {1970}, note = {

U.K. ed. London: Macdonald Science Fiction, 1971), 9-56. Rpt. in his\ The Star-Spangled Future\ (New York: Ace Books, 1979), 335-401 with an \"Introduction to The Lost Continent\" (331-33).

}, month = {1970}, pages = {9-56}, publisher = {Avon Books}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Satire with Africa dominant and the U.S. degenerated due to extensive pollution.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940)}, editor = {Anthony Cheetham} } @booklet {2237, title = {Bug Jack Barron}, year = {1969}, note = {

Rpt. [Book Club Edition] New York: Nelson Doubleday, 1969. Collector\&$\#$39;s Edition illus. Frank Kelly Freas with an \"Introduction\" by James Blaylock (vii-xiii). Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1991. U.K. ed. London: Macdonald, 1970. Shorter version first published in\ New Worlds Science Fiction, nos. 179 - 183\ (February - October 1968): 4-12, 43-51; 28-30, 42-56; 13-22, 44-59; 20-33; 45-59.

}, month = {1969}, publisher = {Walker}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Dystopia. The protagonist is a TV personality with a show called \"Bug Jack Barron\" where he listens to people\&$\#$39;s complaints and calls the politicians or others involved and puts them on the spot. As a result he becomes very powerful. A focus of the novel is the choice between allowing a corporation to be run for profit to freeze and later revive people or to have it publicly available. Presents race relations in the future with Mississippi run by African Americans but with African Americans generally in inferior roles.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940)} } @booklet {2093, title = {Agent of Chaos}, year = {1967}, note = {

U.K. ed. London: New English Library, 1972.

}, month = {1967}, publisher = {Belmont}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Authoritarian dystopia set in the twenty-fourth century with all of the solar system inhabited. Small rebel group and another violent group that ultimately destroys the dictatorship.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940)} } @booklet {2094, title = {The Men in the Jungle}, year = {1967}, month = {1967}, publisher = {Doubleday}, address = {Garden City, NY}, abstract = {

Dystopia of militarism.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {Norman [Richard] Spinrad (b. 1940)} }