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Spinrad, Norman
NO DIRECTION HOME
book-date: 1975
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1975
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Paperback
Charles Moll
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Pocket [1st printing] May 1975 paperback. Cover by Charles Moll, 238 pages, $1.25 cover price. Condition is near-Fine: tight and almost square with flat spine; age tanning is mild and uniform, very light wear including a couple of 1/2" finger-creases on back cover. No stamps, marks or writing.

Norman Spinrad's second short-story collection: No Direction Home. Spinrad is usually considered part of the "New Wave" of late-Sixties SF, but he could sell to traditional markets like Analog - demonstrating his considerable range of story types.

No Direction Home
Heirloom
The Big Flash
The Conspiracy
The Weed of Time
A Thing of Beauty
The Lost Continent
Heroes Die But Once
The National Pastime
In the Eye of the Storm
All the Sounds of the Rainbow

These originally appeared from 1969 to 1974 - in Analog, New Worlds, IF, Vertex, New Worlds Quarterly #2, Alchemy & Academe, Nova 3, Orbit 5, Science Against Man, and Los Angeles Staff. In my opinion, these are from when Spinrad was hitting the top of his form.

(Some story summaries):
"The Big Flash" A violent rock group with maniacal music boils up a craze for a nuclear blast.
"In the Eye of the Storm" A man finds himself blown into a ghastly world by a bolt of lightning.
"No Direction Home" A world exists where reality is psychedelic and a "straight trip" is a hideous bummer.
"A Thing of Beauty" A great salesman exchanges the real Brooklyn Bridge for a real gold brick.
"All the Sounds of the Rainbow" A machine induces the ultimate orgasm - a cosmic nightmare of pleasure, pain and death.