A LONG RESTROSPECTIVE OF 5 NORMAN SPINRAD NOVELS in The Los Angeles Review of Books
LARB GET OUR WEEKLY NEWSLETTER LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS REVIEWS ESSAYS INTERVIEWS ABOUT LARB MEMBERSHIP BOOK CLUB PRINT JOURNAL JOBS AT LARB BLOG AUTHORS CONTRIBUTORS GENRES TAGGED AUTHORS Norman Spinrad TAGGED BOOKS The Void Captain's Tale , Bug Jack Barron , The Iron Dream , Deus X , The Men in the Jungle DIRECT LINK to IRON AND CHROMIUM Iron and Chromium: Five Novels by Norman Spinrad by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro March 10th, 2014 RESET - + NORMAN SPINRAD'S WORK has, over the last fifty years, elicited responses that range from “depraved, cynical, utterly repulsive” (Donald Wollheim) to “delightfully bonkers” (Thomas M. Disch) and “extraordinary” (Ursula Le Guin). Perhaps my favorite characterization of Spinrad is by Isaac Asimov, who, in somewhat of an understatement, observed that he “constantly displays the courage to be different.” I’d like to illustrate this career-defining search for i