PIRATING THE PIRATES
by Norman Spinrad The Death Spiral of the Publishing Dea...
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REMEMBER THE FIRST LAW OF POLITICS, REPUBLICAN SENATORS--FIRST COVER YOUR OWN ASSES! And you can. You can do what you know you should with no courage required. There has been much sad confidential moaning from unnamed Senatorial Republican sources that 20 to 30 Republican Senators know damn well that Donald Trump has been an unparalleled disaster already to America, to the world, and ultimately to the Republican Party, and that win or lose, a Constitutional crisis will be inevitable if he even runs for President again, perhaps even a civil war, and would vote to save the country, their party, and the world from the inevitable catastrophe by voting to remove Trump before it is too late, if it isn't too late already, and would gladly do so if they could avoid his vengeance and that of Mitch McConnell by voting anonymously. But you can, Republican Senators. The full rules for the impeachment trial must be voted on and it takes only 51 votes to approve...
AN AGNOSTIC'S PRAYER
DONALD TRUMP AGENT OF SATAN
ELECT YOUR PEOPLE'S POLICE by Norman Spinrad If something isn't done, and done fast, a civil war in the United States is just a shot or a Molotov Cocktail away. But how and by who? If there is one American who could stand up before the protesters and be listened to it is surely the one and only former President of the United States, Barack Obama. Live before the largest crowd possible and of course well televised. What should he say? He should speak the hard truth to the leaderless protesters that what they are doing is counterproductive to their own confusion of diverse and general causes which if even possible would take decades of legislation to accomplish. What is needed immediately is a strong significant and reachable demand. Demand that the head of all police departments in the United States--cities, towns, st...
NORMAN SPINRAD AT LARGE launch manifesto
QUARANTINE--a freebie novelette
I 've written something over 100 stories and over 95% of them have been bought and published, but a few if them, such as A GAME OF TELEPHONE, have not. QUARANTINE was one of them for years until Greg Spector bought it and published it this year in his anthology of original stories FREEDOM OF SCREECH. Which makes it eligible for the Science Fiction and Fantasy of America best short story Nebula and the Hugo awarded by the World Science Fiction Convention of 2020. Read it here and see why no magazine or other anthology would dare to publish this story until Greg bought it for an anthology of just such hot potatoes and why it is not likely to win a Nebula or a Hugo. Ask me why I wrote such a story? You tell me! QUARANTINE by Norman Spinrad If it wasn’t the best of times, at least it wasn’t the worst of times, or something like that, which is the opening line of a novel called A TALE OF TWO CITIES, and it seemed like this would be only a tal...
I am often asked for bibliographic and personal details dating in both English and French. I do appreciate being asked for such details by critics, journalists, readers, and so forth. How could I not? But I don't know the answers myself often, and even when I do, as every writer and so forth will admit, it gets dreary to have to give the same answers to the same questions over and over again. Believe me the Wikipedias remember more about me than I do myself and they are honest and neutral, if not 100% accurate. So here they are directly. And a direct link to all the YouTube videos I've done all by myself--songs, comedy, politics, phony ads, reportage, all lined up with a single direct click. My English Wikipedia entry click here Mon Wikipedia francais click here ll my YouTube videos in one cl ick here
Story of the week--THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERE ---more or less once a week I'll post a freebie story here on NORMAN SPINRAD AT LARGE---one time non-exclusive reprint rights only
For decades I tried to write a story from the viewpoints of dolphins or whales and failed. For decades people have tried to speak to dolphins in their own language and failed. This story, first published in Asimov's Magazine , is about why. Dolphins and whales don't have languages because they don't need them. They've got something much better. THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERE by Norman Spinrad In the 1960s there was a band called Blue Cheer whose claim to be the loudest rock and roll band on the planet went unchallenged. They would play in intimate club venues standing right in front of the same monster speakers used in stadiums. They were so loud that many aficionados of their recorded music fled in physically agony fro...
GOD IN THE MACHINE
This freebie story was originally written as one of my 850 word stories for Nature. I was told that it was too complex for that length and believed that was right, so I wrote this version without worrying about length. But the SF magazines, the only places such a thing could ever be published, found it too complex. So here it is. GOD IN THE MACHINE by Norman Spinrad It was never going to happen for the right reason, so I had to agree to do it as low farce, and it would turn me into a public laughing stock if I failed. There were those of my former colleagues who were already convinced that Emile Blanchard had already sold his soul to the devil who d...
Mr. Spinrad,
ReplyDeleteI've been a huge fan for a while. Don't know if you recall, but ten years or so ago, you were looking for a new apt in Paris and I sent you the info of someone (a woman named Portia) who worked for the French govt to see if they could help.
In any regard, I'm trying to contact you for the purpose of doing an interview over the internet, via Vokle. It's a video format similar to your video blogs.
You can contact me at tom@thetomgulleyshow.com. I'll be happy to speak with you. Unless I'm done in by a Giant Flying Vampire Toad.
Tom G.