Book description
He was Clear Blue Lou, perfect master of the Clear Blue Way, at one
with the law of muscle, sun, wind and water governing Aquaria. She was
Sunshine Sue, always in a hurry in a world that was too slow, Queen of
Word of Mouth. Their meeting had been arranged - but by whom? and why?
Beyond the beginning of where the world ended, beyond the highest peaks
of its primeval majesty, lay a radio active hell and the lairs of the
black sorcerers, the Spacers. The black scientists had not forgotten
man's old dream of touching the stars: they wanted the Age of Space
reborn. But they needed a little help. 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.
