Norman Spinrad Knihy

Lebensweg und Kampf des bekannten Keltenfürsten Vercingetorix, der um 50 v. Chr. versucht, die Stämme Galliens zu vereinen, um die Römer aus dem Land zu vertreiben.

Norman Spinrad, geboren am 15. September 1940 in New York City, gilt als ein hochintelligenter politischer Autor. Sein erster Geniestreich, 'Bug Jack Barron', erschien 1967 und thematisiert Polit-Mechanismen, die die westliche Welt bis heute beeinflussen, in einer faszinierenden literarischen Qualität. Autoren dieser Klasse erhalten oft nicht die kommerzielle Aufmerksamkeit, die sie verdienen. Spinrads wahrscheinlich erfolgreichster Roman ist 'The Iron Dream' (1972), der sich aufgrund seines kontrafaktischen Hitler-Hintergrunds besser verkauft als andere Werke. In Deutschland wurde 'Der Stählerne Traum' 1979 in einer durchgesehenen Übersetzung von Walter Brumm veröffentlicht und erlebte mehrere Nachauflagen. Die Veröffentlichung in Deutschland unterscheidet sich erheblich von anderen Ländern. Interessierte an politischen Themen und Geisteskrankheiten sollten die Begleitgeschichte der ersten deutschen Veröffentlichung nachlesen. Dieses Werk ist ein bedeutender Diamantsplitter innerhalb der Science Fiction-Literatur und bietet aufgrund seiner speziellen Veröffentlichungsproblematik in Deutschland wertvolle Einblicke in die Reflexionen der Gesellschaft über ihre eigene Existenz. (Eric Zonfeld)

Contents: No Direction Home (1971) Heirloom (1972) The Big Flash (1969) The Conspiracy (1969) The Weed of Time (1970) A Thing of Beauty (1973) The Lost Continent (1970) Heroes Die but Once (1969) The National Pastime (1973) In the Eye of the Storm (1974) All the Sounds of the Rainbow (1973)

The year is 1531. In a small hut on the slopes of the volcano Popocateptl, scholar and poet Alvaro de Sevilla reflects on his extraordinary life. For Alvaro was one of the small army of conquistadors who, some years earlier, set out to conquer an empire. Hernando Cortes was proclaimed a reincarnation of the god Quetzacoatl shortly after his arrival in the New World, and he took advantage and forced his way to the capital city. There he met Montezuma, the Aztec Emperor, who at first welcomed the conquistadors to his city, showering them with gold. But it was an encounter between two civilizations that could only end in chaos, death, and destruction.

An over-the-hill rock star, a Puerto Rican street kid, and two children of the electronic age discover strength in numbers when they take on the power of Musik, Inc., in a war of nerves, passion, and rock 'n' roll. Spinrad uses the violent, sexually explicit language of new wave sf to communicate an ultimately touching message of courage and humanity that breaks through the high-tech glitter of his medium.

The Iron Dream brings us the science fiction novel Hitler would have written if he had emigrated to the US in 1919 and become a hack science fiction writer - Lord of the Swastika ! In a post-nuclear holocaust era, we follow the rise to power of Feric Jaggar from ignominious exile amongst mutants and mongrels to absolute rule in the Fatherland of Truemen, having fought his way to power over the corrupt government. Obsessed with tight black leather and huge crowds, he vows to destroy all mutant scum and defeat the cold, heartless superpower of Zind led by the evil mind-controlling Dominators. In Spinrad's acid-etched satire the parallels between space opera, sword and sorcery and fascist wish-fulfilment are made explicit as as you find yourself rooting for Jaggar, while realising his rise has sinister parallels with that of Hitler and the Nazi party.

An encounter between opponents--Clear Blue Lou, a virile young Perfect Master called to judge the Sunshine tribe for their use of forbidden dark sciences, and Sunshine Sue, the sexy leader of the Word of Mouth network--has unexpected repercussions

Since its colonization by Earth, Pacifica has flourished. Now, under the guidance of Chairman Carlotta Madigan and her lover and Minister of Media, Royce Lindbold, it is the galaxy's supreme electronic democracy, a Utopian world where both sexes equally serve and are served by the Media. But there are those who would have it otherwise, who have come to Pacifica to turn its very freedom into an instrument of its bondage, who have launched a devastating media war on Pacifica to divide... and conquer.

About a hundred years from now, pollution, overpopulation, and ecological disasters have left the rich nations still rich, and the poor nations--the Lands of the Lost--slowly strangling in drought and pollution. New York City is below sea level, surrounded by a seawall. The climate in Paris is much like the twentieth-century climate of long-drowned New Orleans. And Siberia, Golden Siberia, is the crop-land of the world.Still, for the international corporations and businesses who make a profit on technofixing the environment--the Big Blue Machine--it is business as sell what you can where you can whenever you can. It is better to be rich. But it all may be coming to a terrible a scientist has predicted Condition Venus, the sudden greenhouse downfall of the entire planet--but she can't say when.So now the attention of the world is focused for a week on a UN conference on the Environment in Paris, where all hell is about to break loose.