Showing posts with label Norman Spinrad. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Norman Spinrad. Show all posts

Thursday, 23 October 2014

THE VOID CAPTAIN'S TALE

Panther/Granada paperback, 1984. Cover artwork by Geoff Taylor.

Rear cover/synopsis.

Monday, 27 February 2012

THE IRON DREAM

Panther SF paperback, 1974. Cover painting by Bob Haberfield.

"Let Adolf Hitler transport you to a far-future Earth, where only Feric Jaggar and his mighty weapon, the Steel Commander, stand between the remnants of true humanity and annihilation at the hands of the totally evil Dominators and the mindless mutant hordes they completely control. 
Lord of the Swastika is recognized as the most vivid and popular of Hitler's science-fiction novels by fans the world over, who honoured it with a Hugo as Best Science-Fiction Novel of 1954. Long out of print, it is now once more available in this new edition, with an Afterword by Homer Whipple of New York University. See for yourself why so many people have turned to this science-fantasy novel as a beacon of hope in these grim and terrifying times."

THE NEW TOMORROWS

Belmont Tower paperback, 1973. Cover artist uncredited,
signature: O'Brian.

"The New Tomorrows is a predestined collision of fifteen first-rate stories of somewhat scientific speculative fiction, collected and commented on by Norman Spinrad, himself the author of the controversial novel Bug Jack Barron."

Contents:

The Pleasure Garden Of Felipe Sagittarius by Michael Moorcock
Driftglass by Samuel R. Delany
Sending The Very Best by Ed Bryant
Going Down South by Robert Silverberg
The Garden Of Delights by Langdon Jones
Surface If You Can by Terry Champagne
Masks by Damon Knight
Pennies, Off A Dead Man's Eyes by Harlan Ellison
198-, A Tale Of "Tomorrow" by John T. Sladek
Flight Useless, Inexorable The Pursuit by Thomas M. Disch
The Last Hurrah Of The Golden Horde by Norman Spinrad
Down The Up Escalation by Brian W. Aldiss
Circularization Of Concensed Conventional Straight-Line World-Image Structures by Michael Butterworth
The Definition by Bob Marsden
The Jungle Rot Kid On The Nod by Philip José Farmer.

Wednesday, 2 March 2011

THE SOLARIANS

Paperback Library Edition. First printing, July 1966.
Cover by Ed Valigursky (thanks, Mark).

"Earth was programmed for destruction in the mad war of the computer worlds - unless the Solarians could stop the machines! 
Three hundred years ago the solarians retreated to the safety of their Fortress as Earth became embroiled in the first of the computer wars with the dread Duglaari Empire. 
The solarians' final word to all humanity was a promise to reappear one day and bring it to victory. Suddenly, with Earth on the verge of becoming a helpless victim of the merciless Duglaars, the Solarians made contact with fleet commander Jay Palmer. It was an offer of aid. 
But the Solarians' plan was so cunning, so fraught with danger, that Jay faced the greatest decision of his life - and that of Earth's: 
Accept their ingenious strategy as a stroke of genius or reject it as a trick designed to destroy human life forever."

Monday, 1 March 2010

BUG JACK BARRON

Panther SF paperback, 1979 reprint. Cover illustration by
Peter Gudynas.

"ONE OF THE MOST CONTROVERSIAL SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS EVER WRITTEN... 
The place: America. The time: not so very far in the future. Marijuana's legal and advertised on TV; politics are more screwed-up than ever; there's a black separatist state of Mississippi. Against this backdrop, Jack Barron, anarchic mass-media man and heroic womanizer, uncovers a conspiracy of evil cloaking a horrific secret. His choice is agonising. Should he throw in his lot with the conspiracy and gain the greatest prize anyone could hope for? Or should he use his power to blow the story open - and the world apart...? 
Vivid, brutal, erotic and chillingly plausible, Bug Jack Barron has been hailed as a masterpiece and condemned as 'depraved'. The reader must make up his own mind."