Norman Spinrad At Large

                         Free story of the week THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES This story was first published in ANALOG.  It is set in what we now know about our universe--billions of planets in our galaxy, billions of galaxies in our universe, virtually certain millions of biospheres in our galaxies, surely we will discover other sapient cultures.  And then what? We will know they are there, but then what? One thing is sure, it will change speculative fiction, indeed fiction period, because any fiction that doesn't face this existential reality will be outdated.                                THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES                                             by Norman Spinrad No member of the Order of the Galactic Eye has ever gone down there because we can’t, but I doubt than any of us would if we could.  Destiny is that to which one may aspire and therefor a potential choice, but fate is what is written in one’s stars. Or in our case in our DNA.  Written there by those dow

                     DIRECT ACTION Virginia with 13 electoral votes has now joined the Compact.  The magic number is 270.  Now the count to it is 209 and rising.  Only 61 more electoral votes to go.  Which state will be next?  Which state will be the one to finally make it so?  Save American Constitutional Democracy from the coming singularity via The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact   In 2016  Clinton got 3 million more popular votes than Trump but Trump was elected President against the will of the majority of the American voters and the odds are that something like it is going to happen again in 2020. And if it does, the Constitution of the United States will be revealed as incompatible with American Democracy and something cannot help but give. There cannot fail to be a paradigm shift AKA a revolution against the Constitution as it stands. Indeed there has already been a quite Constitutional coup already via the Electoral College. One thing is sure--Donald Trump