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AGENT OF CHAOS.
New York: Franklin Watts, 1988. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First hardcover edition.
THE IRON DREAM.
Boston: Gregg Press, 1977. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. Text offset from that of the 1972 Avon edition. New introduction by Theodore Sturgeon. 1972 Nebula and National Book Award nominee. A alternate world fantasy in which the novel "Lord of the Swastika" is written by science fiction author Adolf Hitler who emigrated to the United States in the 1920s. "We are forced, in so far as we can continue to read the book seriously, to think, not about Adolf Hitler and his historic crimes--Hitler is simply the distancing medium--but to think about ourselves: our moral assumptions, our ideas of heroism, our desires to, lead or to be led, our righteous wars. What Spinrad is trying to tell us is that it is happening here." Ursala K. Le Guin, Science Fiction Studies, Volume 1, Part 1, Spring 1973. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1060. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, Additions. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1063-67.
LITTLE HEROES.
New York: Bantam, 1987. Octavo, cloth backed boards. First edition.
SONGS FROM THE STARS.
New York: Simon and Schuster, [1980]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. "An ecologically sound, low-tech society has arisen in America in the aftermath of a nuclear war. However, there are still 'black scientists' over them thar hills, who plan to relaunch a space shuttle and retrieve long-lost knowledge from an orbital station." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 335. Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 4-529. Brians, Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction, 1895-1984, p. 315. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 403.
THE VOID CAPTAIN'S TALE.
New York: Timescape Books Distributed by Simon and Schuster, [1983]. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. The first-person narrative of the captain of the 'void ship' Dragon Zephyr, which leaps the light years with ease by means of its special orgasmic drive. A science-fictional fantasy about the ultimate phallic spacecraft. As is usual with Spinrad, there's a great deal of floridly written sex -- but this is perhaps his best novel since BUG JACK BARRON." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 404. "Very clever and written with much verve." - Brian Stableford. 1983 Nebula nominee. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-1064.