Book description
Pacifica was a monument to freedom and equality-until the off-worlders
came. The Femocrats, a party of female separatists, and the
Transcendental Scientists, an institute of technofascists dedicated to
male supremacy. Carlotta Madigan, Pacifica's prime minister, and Royce
Lindblad, her handsome young lover and media adviser, had to find a way
to stop the Pink and Blue War-without becoming casualties themselves.
Norman Spinrad (1940 - ) Norman Richard Spinrad was born in New York
City in 1941. He began publishing science fiction in 1963 and has been
an important, if sometimes controversial, figure in the genre ever
since. He was a regular contributor to New Worlds magazine and,
ironically, the cause of its banning by W H Smith, which objected to the
violence and profanity in his serialised novel Bug Jack Barron.
Spinrad's work has never shied away from the confrontational, be it
casting Hitler as a spiteful pulp novelist or satirising the Church of
Scientology. In addition to his SF novels, he has written non-fiction,
edited anthologies and contributed a screenplay to the second season of
Star Trek. In 2003, Norman Spinrad was awarded the Prix Utopia, a life
achievement award given by the Utopiales International Festival in
Frances, where he now lives.
