pre-"2001" space travel psychodramas - SLUGS IN SPACE and donald malcolm

I used to feel a little weird at the age of 16 reading that book on the subway. You had reason to be fearful, Mark, The Black Box told me a little while ago that the book was banned in Germany for eight years and after its unbanning its cover could not be displayed.

Never knew or forgot that Spinrad went to my high school. He seems to be doing historical fiction now. I have come across lots of recently-translated-into-Spanish copies his latest, Mexica.

Happy Sluglord Singularity!

Here is the original thread: threadment for rolling discussion of Slug of Time
Seems that Zirn is still unguarded and Jon Westerley is still dead.

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I’ve been a huge fan of theirs since day one and not just because of their retrofuturistic fealty to TEH REDD BRANE.

See also: old s.f. story about people who let their brains run free, and kept their bodies in a shed?

And: a brief history of the giant disembodied brain

Third cortex different from the rest: disembodied brains as cover art