Book description
A collection of short stories from the acclaimed author of 'Bug Jack
Barron'. Includes "No Direction Home" which depicts a drug
dystopia, and "Sierra Maestra." A violent rock group with
maniacal music boils up a craze for a nuclear blast. A man finds himself
blown into a ghastly world by a bolt of lightning. 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.
