Welcome to Your Dreamtime

Norman Spinrad’s writing career spans over six decades and has seen him become one of the science fiction genre’s most illustrious and controversial authors. A masterful satirist and instigator, he is well-known for taking risks, challenging conventions, and pushing the limits of narrative in books like Bug Jack Baron and The Iron Dream. In Welcome to Your Dreamtime, he returns to his avant-garde roots as a practitioner of New Wave science fiction in the twentieth century, but here his purview is fixed on the twenty-first century as he depicts how contemporary reality has been transformed into an aggressive irreality of Desire Unbound by the forces of digital culture. Dark, playful, humorous, subversive, and intelligent, this esoteric novel re-establishes Spinrad as the “hip, worldly, high-tech Nostradamus” that Timothy Leary said he was.

NORMAN SPINRAD is a writer, essayist, and critic. The winner of a Hugo Award and two Nebula Awards, he twice served as the president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, and he is the author of over twenty novels. Spinrad lives in France.

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"Norman Spinrad has never quit redefining his role as dissident and sage, inviting the bullies of the present moment outside for a throwdown, and somehow also conjuring possible futures despite all the odds against those—he’s that most miraculous of creatures, a Utopianist’s Dystopianist." —JONATHAN LETHEM

"Endowed with an acuity as terrifying as it is pertinent, Norman Spinrad is without a doubt one of the best contemporary American novelists." —ROLLING STONE

"With a rich and passionate imagination, at once subtle and humane, Norman Spinrad is a very fine writer indeed, working at the peak of his gifts." —GREG BEAR

"Like his characters, Spinrad takes great risks; the rewards for readers willing to meet him halfway are commensurate." —NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

"A hip, worldly, high-tech Nostradamus whose engaging predictions are occurring on CNN as you turn his pages." —TIMOTHY LEARY

"Norman Spinrad remains an irreplaceable voice in the SF field. Critic, provocateur, daring dreamer, he deserves a prominence even higher than what the field has already accorded him." —LOCUS MAGAZINE

"Spinrad leads the reader gently toward wider and more awesome vistas, expanding the mind as he goes." —LARRY NIVEN

"Norman Spinrad sweeps us away with a surge of avant-garde imagery and ideas untethered from the constrictions of mainstream speculative fiction. The story doesn’t drape a traditional narrative over its novel concepts. The book IS the fantastic technology you would normally find in a science fiction novel of this type and YOU are experiencing it as you explore its pages. This is where the writing in Welcome to Your Dreamtime excels and proves that Spinrad can still put out masterful prose after all these years." —WE THE HALLOWED