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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 tale of one.
Back in the day before the Quarantine, Manhattan island was the heart and soul and pocketbook of New York City, to the extent that New York could have been said to have all three, Wall Street, Greenwich Village, Broadway and 42nd Street, and all that jazz. When you saw a movie or a TV show or an ad featuring New York, the Big Apple was Manhattan, not anything in what some visiting Californian must have dubbed the “Outer Boroughs,” the moral equivalent of Anaheim or Eagle Rock as far as a Hollywood wise guy was concerned.
Not that I was a Hollywood wise guy just because my sales office happened to be located on the seventh floor of one of those unglamorous glass towers at the busin…
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 tale of one.
Back in the day before the Quarantine, Manhattan island was the heart and soul and pocketbook of New York City, to the extent that New York could have been said to have all three, Wall Street, Greenwich Village, Broadway and 42nd Street, and all that jazz. When you saw a movie or a TV show or an ad featuring New York, the Big Apple was Manhattan, not anything in what some visiting Californian must have dubbed the “Outer Boroughs,” the moral equivalent of Anaheim or Eagle Rock as far as a Hollywood wise guy was concerned.
Not that I was a Hollywood wise guy just because my sales office happened to be located on the seventh floor of one of those unglamorous glass towers at the busin…
PIRATING THE PIRATES
by Norman Spinrad
The Death Spiral of the Publishing Death Spiral revisited
I had no idea that I was going to write this until some of the people commenting on THE PUBLISHING DEATH SPIRAL put two ideas in my head:
First, many people suggested I put my backlist books on ebook publishing sites. I googled round and about and found that Amazon offers the best deal. All Amazon requires you to give them is non-exclusive rights to sell your ebook in their proprietary format for Kindle. So that much indeed is a no-brainer, since these are rights you can’t do anything with anywhere other than Amazon, and they tie up nothing else.
Furthermore, you set your own sale price, and Amazon pays you 70% of the sale price if you allow them to adjust it as they might see fit, and 30% if you want to lock in your own price.
So far, so good.
But I, like many writers of a certain age, and even some who are not, wrote many of my backlist books on typewri…
The Death Spiral of the Publishing Death Spiral revisited
I had no idea that I was going to write this until some of the people commenting on THE PUBLISHING DEATH SPIRAL put two ideas in my head:
First, many people suggested I put my backlist books on ebook publishing sites. I googled round and about and found that Amazon offers the best deal. All Amazon requires you to give them is non-exclusive rights to sell your ebook in their proprietary format for Kindle. So that much indeed is a no-brainer, since these are rights you can’t do anything with anywhere other than Amazon, and they tie up nothing else.
Furthermore, you set your own sale price, and Amazon pays you 70% of the sale price if you allow them to adjust it as they might see fit, and 30% if you want to lock in your own price.
So far, so good.
But I, like many writers of a certain age, and even some who are not, wrote many of my backlist books on typewri…
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 contends, metaphoric shamanic systems that over centuries evolved them over trial and error, and some of these belief-based cures can do real harm. With the ones that do work, the shamans know they work, but are mistaken as to how.
So what is needed in the 21st century when…
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 contends, metaphoric shamanic systems that over centuries evolved them over trial and error, and some of these belief-based cures can do real harm. With the ones that do work, the shamans know they work, but are mistaken as to how.
So what is needed in the 21st century when…
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 of Edward Daladier published in France…
(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 of Edward Daladier published in France…
VITAMIN C VERSES CORONAVIRUS
Why I've not yet read this anywhere I don't know but that is why I'm duty-bound to do it myself:
Vitamin C will be effective against the Coronavirus, personally, and collectively. Vitamin C promotes the body's creation of Interferon which is key to the strength of the immune system. Everyone should take at least 2000mg of Vitamin C, 1000 in the morning, 1000 in the evening, some say another 1000 mid-day. This is not curative, this is cautionary, keeping your immune system running at maximum.
If you start to suspect that you may be feeling early symptoms take 1000 mg of Vitamin C an hour until your urine turns bright yellow, which means that your Vitamin C is at maximum and you are pissing away the rest. This will not always stop the infection but it frequently will.
I am not making this up, it was discovered and elucidated by Linus Pauling, a Nobel class biochemist. Decades ago, I suffered chronic urinary infection like many men. When I as…
Why I've not yet read this anywhere I don't know but that is why I'm duty-bound to do it myself:
Vitamin C will be effective against the Coronavirus, personally, and collectively. Vitamin C promotes the body's creation of Interferon which is key to the strength of the immune system. Everyone should take at least 2000mg of Vitamin C, 1000 in the morning, 1000 in the evening, some say another 1000 mid-day. This is not curative, this is cautionary, keeping your immune system running at maximum.
If you start to suspect that you may be feeling early symptoms take 1000 mg of Vitamin C an hour until your urine turns bright yellow, which means that your Vitamin C is at maximum and you are pissing away the rest. This will not always stop the infection but it frequently will.
I am not making this up, it was discovered and elucidated by Linus Pauling, a Nobel class biochemist. Decades ago, I suffered chronic urinary infection like many men. When I as…
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.
Copulate, defecate, urinate, vagina.
These four words mean precisely the same things, but are perfectly kosher for polite discourse, publication, and prime time.
We all know that too, but do we all know why copulate, defecate, urinate, and vagina are “clean,” whereas their exact synonyms, fuck, shit, piss, and cunt are “dirty?” Why these words even have the power to render such innocentl…
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.
Copulate, defecate, urinate, vagina.
These four words mean precisely the same things, but are perfectly kosher for polite discourse, publication, and prime time.
We all know that too, but do we all know why copulate, defecate, urinate, and vagina are “clean,” whereas their exact synonyms, fuck, shit, piss, and cunt are “dirty?” Why these words even have the power to render such innocentl…
Story of the week--ENTITIES--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
Free Story of the Week:
This story, ENTITIES, is somehow peculiarly relative to what I'm trying to do with NORMAN SPINRAD AT LARGE. What I'm doing with this blog is creating my own entity that will still exist as long as the technology to carry it into the future still exists after my flesh and blood are gone. A kind of immortality, or at least, the next best thing.
My friend Richard Pinhas and I were talking about our physically deceased mutual friend Philip K. Dick. "I'm not talking about his physical person," Richard told me. "I'm talking about his immortal entity, the books, the stories, the history, the recorded or remembered personality."
So NORMAN SPINRAD AT LARGE is my evolving entity, the short stories that will remain on this blog, the novels that will be always available as long as Amazon remains, videos, songs, recipes, pictures, loves, hates, interviews, whatever. Better to create your own entity rather than write your own obitu…
THE ABNORMAL NEW NORMAL
THE
ABNORMAL NEW NORMAL
by Norman Spinrad (a presidential platform for a non-existent campaign) “Things are more
like they are now than they ever have been before.”
--Dwight Eisenhower “They wrote the biggest
rubber check in history and passed it off on themselves.
---Norman Spinrad,
GREENHOUSE SUMMER
What supposedly began in 2008 and was or still is so-called “Great Recession” was or still is not primarily a recession nor did it begin with the fiscal crash of 2008. One might trace it back to the post-World War II reaction to the New Deal, one might trace it back to the invention of the steam engine and the resultant Industrial Revolution, but to arbitrarily bring the beginning of what is now being called “The New Normal” down to a single event tha…
What supposedly began in 2008 and was or still is so-called “Great Recession” was or still is not primarily a recession nor did it begin with the fiscal crash of 2008. One might trace it back to the post-World War II reaction to the New Deal, one might trace it back to the invention of the steam engine and the resultant Industrial Revolution, but to arbitrarily bring the beginning of what is now being called “The New Normal” down to a single event tha…
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