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Monday February 07, 2005

finding spinrad essays

happy day: i just received a copy of norman spinrad's science fiction in the real world, southern illinois university press, 1990. i did not know spinrad had published a collection of his essays (well, essays disguised as book reviews) from Asimov's; i found out about it through one of the essential references of SF: barron's anatomy of wonder: a critical guide to science fiction, now in its fifth edition. [great content, utterly uninspiring cover; fourth edition had a much better graphic designer, evidently]

The Sturgeon and Dick pieces are passionate and moving, and Spinrad's treatment of cyberpunk is among the best early accounts available.

yep.

as an aside, one of my favorite non-SF-related pieces by norman spinrad is la cuisine humaine.

[there has been many more essays and reviews since 1990; i hope they get collected as well.]

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