Les projets de Norman Spinrad

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Norman Spinrad parle de ses projets dans cette interview ...

Extrait :
"What is next for Norman Spinrad? I understand from your website that you have something coming out from Tor books soon. Would you like to tell us a little bit about any upcoming novels?
Norman Spinrad : Tor has just published He Walked Among Us, which I, and not only I, consider my magnum opus, and it was more or less greeted as such when it was first published in France. The basic McGuffin is a comedian who may be from a “Deathship Earth” future sent back in time to prevent it, to change it to a “Starship Earth” future, or who may be just nuts, or who may have been entirely taken over by his own schtick, or. . .

It’s a thematically very serious novel–the fate of the Earth, quantum cosmology, show biz, the true story of the culture of science fiction and show biz, down and dirty street reality, etc. But it’s a comic novel, couldn’t have worked any other way, and I had to make up something like 300 jokes–some good, some deliberately lousy, some deliberately mediocre–to make it work.

That’s the only book from Tor right now, but towards the end of April, Fantastic Books is bringing out four of my backlist novels in print on demand paper and ebook editions–A World Between (a gender war in the future, and which predicted the Internet or something like it long before Al Gore), Songs from the Stars (first contact with a galactic civilization), The Iron Dream (Adolf Hitler’s Hugo-winning novel Lord of the Swastika) and Russian Spring (now an alternate world novel in which, among other things, Perostroika worked, and the Soviet Union was transformed into a democracy rather than imploding).

In the works, finished with publication in France in May but not yet with an American publisher, Osama the Gun, a kind of “sympathy for the Islamic terrorist devil,” and Welcome To Your Dreamtime, due in France next Spring, no US publisher as yet, of which “Lighter Than Air” is a part."