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Norman Spinrad [1940-0] American

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Norman Richard Spinrad is an American science fiction author, essayist, and critic. His fiction has won the Prix Apollo and been nominated for numerous awards, including the Hugo Award and multiple Nebula Awards.

Age, History, Science, Travel

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It's trite to say that the world has gotten smaller in the age of globalization, but my travels have told me that it's wrong to think this means there is some kind of uniform world culture.	Age	101
As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.	History, Science	102
I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.		103
I write in American slang.		104
I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless.		105
Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.		106
I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.		107
I was a precocious reader.		108
If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.		109
The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.	Travel	110
English is taking over the world. I just wrote a piece about it. And it's not by design. The United States dominates because it's the biggest market.		111
I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.		112
I never learned to read music.		113
I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.		114
If it's not American, the French won't go see it.		115
In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing.		116
Is anything accidental?		117
The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.		118
There are certain things that ordinary people have that celebrities don't have.		119
When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money.		120
You can really do more than you think you can do.		121

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