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Norman Spinrad

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Also known as Norman Richard Spinrad

American science fiction writer and critic (born 1940)

Person · Open Library

Born
1940
Works
155

Top works

  • The Men in the Jungle
  • The End of the World -- stories of the apocalypse
  • Les pionniers du chaos
  • The Century's Best Horror Fiction. Volume 2
  • Univers 19

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Norman Spinrad was born in New York City on September 15, 1940, graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in 1957 and the College of the City of New York. He published his first short story in 1963, his first novel in 1966, and has been a full-time career writer ever since. He is the author of about twenty novels, depending on the mode of publication, in various countries, and has been translated into over a dozen languages. In addition to the novels, he has published about 60 short stori

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Quotes

  • Thus human culture has been as much a product of the process of natural selection as the human species. We are not merely clockwork oranges, the clockwork itself, the social programming which determines our “repertoires of behavior,” how we respond to the world around us, is itself the product of a blind deterministic process.
  • The carrot is mightier than the stick.
  • To become aware of a controlling process is to transcend the determinism of that process.
  • "The saddest day of your life isn't when you decide to sell out. The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out and nobody wants to buy."
  • Any attempt at willful ignorance would now be futile or worse; the only talisman against excessive knowledge that might have puissance would be more knowledge.
  • Even now, I cannot decide whether I was foolish dupe or noble and tragic lover. Or whether the two are one and the same.

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