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Willis E. McNelly Science Fiction collection: Norman Spinrad

 Collection
Identifier: SC-06-NS

Scope and Contents

Collection contains story and idea notebooks, working papers for story ideas, published and unpublished stort story manuscripts, published and unpublished novel manuscripts, teleplays for unproduced and produced Star Trek episodes, noteably "The Doomsday machine", and two taped CSUF lectures.

Dates

  • 1966 - 1978

Creator

Biographical / Historical

Norman Spinrad is the author of over twenty novels, including BUG JACK BARRON, THE IRON DREAM, CHILD OF FORTUNE, PICTURES AT 11, GREENHOUSE SUMMER, and THE DRUID KING.

He has also published something like 60 short stories collected in half a dozen volumes. The novels and stories have been published in about 15 languages.

His most recent novel length publication in English is HE WALKED AMONG US, published in April 2010 by Tor in hardcover and April 2011 in trade paperback.

He's written teleplays, including the classic Star Trek, “The Doomsday Machine,” and two produced feature films DRUIDS and LA SIRENE ROUGE. He is a long time literary critic, sometime film critic, perpetual political analyst, and sometime songwriter.

He's also briefly been a radio phone show host, has appeared as a vocal artist on three albums, and occassionally performs live. He’s been a literary agent, and President of the Science Fiction Writers of America and World SF. He’s posted 30 YouTube videos to date.

He grew up in New York, has lived in Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, and Paris, and travelled widely in Europe and rather less so in Latin America, Asia, and Oceania.

Source: https://www.linkedin.com/in/norman-spinrad-a79b3932

Extent

7 boxes

Language of Materials

English

Physical Location

Aisle 9A, Shelf 7 - 8

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of the Patrons of the Library, 1969-01-24.

Title
Willis E. McNelly Science Fiction collection: Norman Spinrad
Status
Completed
Author
pmp
Date
2022-08-29
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the CSUF University Archives & Special Collections Repository

Contact:
University Archives & Special Collections
Pollak Library South Room 352 (PLS 352)
Fullerton CA 92831-3599 USA
(657) 278-4751