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DONALD TRUMP AGENT OF SATAN

                                           DONALD TRUMP AGENT OF SATAN                                               The Bluegrass Song                                    Just in time for the impeachment!  Whoever turns out to be the Democratic candidate for President is welcome to use it as their theme  song. Free of charge! Pro bono! DONALD TRUMP AGENT OF SATAN    click here
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THE TRANSFORMATION CRISIS--a book proposal for a major publisher

                                                                THE TRANSFORMATION CRISIS                                 by Norman Spinrad                                a book proposal                          This orginated as a proposal for a book which was way                          ahead of it’s time and never got written.  It became a free-standing                          essay in several languages, and several speeches, and then the       ...
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A Norman Spinrad Retrospective

A LONG RETROSPECTIVE ON QUIETUS Here's the text in full, but this is another illustrated piece, so I'm also linking to the full online illustrated version All these interviews and articles in such a short period of time is wonderfully encouraging and greatly appreciated. But also frustrating and infuriating. With all of this, why isn't there an American publisher with the cojones or at least the commercial street-smarts to publish OSAMA THE GUN, WELCOME TO YOUR DREAMTIME, or POLICE STATE? Frustrating, infuriating, and I'm beginning to feel, rather disgusting. rhe full illustrated version The full illustrated version By Any Other Name: A Norman Spinrad Retrospective  Sean Kitching , September 22nd, 2013 08:55 Sean Kitching delves in to the life and work of Norman Spinrad, who having turned 73 last week arguably remains one of science-fiction's greatest authors and enduring characters Norman Spinrad has easily the most fitting surname of any scien...
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THE FRENCH EXCEPTION (English)et L'EXCEPTION FRANÇAISE ( Francaise)

This is a kind of  love letter to France, my original English text of an article commissioned in 1998 by the French national newspaper LE MONDE and a rough French translation done with Google because I couldn’t find LE MONDE’S French translation anywhere on the Internet.   (Update: meilleur traduction francais --merci a Alain Gresh I’m putting it online on the occasion of my impending 6 weeks or so in France because it’s been causing me to reflect on what my 14 years living in France has meant to me and still does during my largely unwilling return to New York. What I wrote in LE MONDE in 1998 is personally even truer for me now that it was then.  Since then, I’ve done appearances for the French Foreign Service in New Caldonia and Mexico, received a Career Achievement Award at the Utopiales festival in Nantes from the hands of  Jean-Marc Ayrault, then the mayor of Nantes, now Prime Minister of France.  I’ve had a hand in getting the prison diary ...
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JIHADHIS--THEY PLAY THE GAME, GIVE THEM THE NAME

                 JIHADIS--THEY PLAY THE GAME, GIVE THEM THE NAME                             It's World War III, and we are in it.        Al Qaida in Pakistan, Al Qaida in the Mahgreb, Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, the Taliban, whoever, wherever, these groups and franchises operate, they're called "militants," in government lingo, in newspaper, news sites, and TV news, they're called "militants."         But "militant" denotes a level of passion, dedication, and ruthlessness, not even a tactic as "terrorist" at least does, and that doesn't begin to describe what they real are.  They they call themselves "jihadhis" and proud of it and that's what they really are.            All these terrorist groups, wherever they are, whatever their tactics, have a coherent and focused ideological goal-...
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A TALE OF THE THREE NORMAN SPINRADS

                             A TALE OF THE THREE NORMAN SPINRADS                            “Now is the time for a futile gesture” --attributed to the IRA                         “Believe the foma that make you strong and brave and happy”--Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.                One of us is in  Paris France after four days at the Quais Du Polar festival in Lyon and surfing buoyantly at the crest of the wave. Another one of  us is shortly to return to New York City and dreading the inevitable letdown.  The third Norman Spinrad is writing this and attempting to cool his ire enough to try to make analytic sense of our maddeningly disjunctive existential situation.     The Norman Spinrad who lived in Paris for over a de...
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THE POWER OF DIRTY WORDS

                                     The New York Post September 25, 2012                              THE POWER OF DIRTY WORDS--Illustrated!!!                                    by Norman Spinrad                         In memorium: Lenny Bruce        Fuck, shit, piss, cunt.       Have I gotten your attention?       Of course I have!       These words have that magic power. As we all know, fuck, shit, piss, and cunt are the rock bottom basic “dirty words.” Neither the New York Times nor any other establishment publication will print them.  They may not be uttered on broadcast television...
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THE 21ST CENTURY SHAMAN

        THE 21ST CENTURY SHAMAN                          Alternate Medicines and the Scientific Method                     by  Norman Spinrad           Written   over a decade ago as a proposal for a book that never got written  but all too pertinent  to the era of the coronavirus                     There are many medical systems on this planet, some of them ancient, some of them new, more of them that not based on metaphorical systems. Only “Western” or “alliopathic” medicine is based on rigorous science.  But many of the traditional non-western systems cure some conditions cure some conditions but not others. Many of these cures work in practice, but not in theory. That is they do work, but not for the reasons the theory behind them conte...
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PIRATING THE PIRATES

                                                                                                             by Norman Spinrad                                                     The Death Spiral of the Publishing Dea...
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A CONTACT INTERVIEW WITH ME FROM 1978

This, at least to me, is an amazing interview done with me from way back in 1978 by Joseph S. Zitt, courtesy of  Steve Davidson.  A scanned pdf from what may have actually been a mimeographed fanzine.  The only form in which I could put it here. Contact Interview with Norman Spinrad from 1978 in pdf formant!   Fascinating to see how dead right I was about many things, how optimistically dead wrong about others! Strangely enough, maybe the best interview with me ever, certainly the best through 1978. And still, I think the longest.  This, including the illo, is posted on the Amazing Stories website.
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