Deus X

Norman Spinrad is the author of over twenty novels, several short story collections, various screenplays, teleplays, and essays. Novels include Bug Jack Barron, The Mind Game, The Void Captain¿s Tale, Journals of the Plague Years, Child of Fortune, Little Heroes, Deus X, Pictures at 11, Greenhouse Summer, The Druid King, and Mexica. Bug Jack Barron, Spinrad¿s novel about politics and the media, was denounced on the floor of the British Parliament. In The Iron Dream, Spinrad imagines Adolf Hitler as a science fiction writer and academe lauding the Fuhrer¿s literary skills. (Not surprisingly, many quickly misunderstood this powder keg of a book. The Iron Dream garnered a National Book Award nomination in the U.S. and won the Prix Apollo in France, but it was banned in Germany for seven years.) Science Fiction in the Real World, Spinrad¿s collection of essays, is a wonderful SF writing primer and inside look into the field. Equally valuable is his Staying Alive: A Writer¿s Guide. Spinrad has been described as a political and ecological activist. His concern for the state of the planet ¿ and past, present and impending future cultural and ecological injustices ¿ is ever reflected in his fiction and talks.Spinrad, Norman is the author of 'Deus X', published 2007 under ISBN 9780979477010 and ISBN 0979477018.