Norman Spinrad's fiction has won the Prix Apollo and been nominated for numerous awards, including the Hugo Award and multiple Nebula Awards.
12 Facts About Norman Spinrad
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Norman Spinrad has lived in San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Paris, and New York City.
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Norman Spinrad married fellow novelist N Lee Wood in 1990; they divorced in 2005.
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Norman Spinrad served as President of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America from 1980 to 1982 and again from 2001 to 2002.
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Norman Spinrad has worked as a phone-in radio show host, a vocal artist, a literary agent, and President of World SF.
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Norman Spinrad had difficulty finding a publisher willing to print Bug Jack Barron as a book.
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Unlike Norman Spinrad's controversial later work, this novel is a mainstream space opera featuring space battles, faster-than-light spacedrives, and an alien enemy, the Duglaari.
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The Void Captain's Tale takes place three or four thousand years in the future in an era called the Second Starfaring Age, a setting Norman Spinrad revisited in the 1985 novel Child of Fortune.
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Norman Spinrad wrote the script for an episode of the original Star Trek television series, titled "The Doomsday Machine".
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Norman Spinrad wrote an unproduced Star Trek script for Star Trek: Phase II.
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Norman Spinrad wrote episodes for Land of the Lost and Werewolf.
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Norman Spinrad has been credited as a writer on two feature films, The Red Siren and Druids.