Norman Spinrad
Norman Spinrad
Norman Richard Spinradis an American science fiction author, essayist, and critic. His fiction has won the Prix Apollo and been nominated for numerous awards, including the Hugo Award and multiple Nebula Awards...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 September 1940
CountryUnited States of America
definitions fiction make-sense
There is only one definition of science fiction that seems to make sense: 'Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.'
mexico manipulation myth
Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.
hero faces thousand
I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.
reader precocious
I was a precocious reader.
fiction science-fiction
Science fiction is anything published as science fiction.
honor badges
The opprobrium of assholes is a badge of honor.
american-author bum money states
When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money.
america done dollars
In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing.
Is anything accidental?
mean thinking age
It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture.
lying biographies would-be
All fiction is lies – if it weren’t, it would be biography, history, or reportage.
people ordinary ordinary-people
There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have.
I never learned to read music.