Bug Jack Barron

I'm on page 80 of Bug Jack Barron.

This is some great stuff. Totally 60s, but also predicative of some 70s attitudes while also being timeless in mass media.

So far my only complaint isn't against the liberal use of the various racial slurs, nor against the repeated stream of consciousness, but rather the internal monologue of the lead female character seems less a real person than an idealized form of a 1940's female character. "oh you fool, you fool" and such like that.

The novel is about a fight over the right of chryostasis and is immortality a public right or a private enterprise. There's also some mass media stuff in here as well along with some racial attitude examination which seems a bit dated as well. For example the word "Shade" being thrown around as the white equivalence of "The N Word."

So far there's a bit to chew on, while there promises to be a lot more.

My only other book by Spinrad is The Iron Dream, Hugo award winner Adolph Hitler's Magnum Opus which is done as a leftist examination of the conservative and reactionary tropes found in much heroic fantasy/science fiction.

It looks like this went back into print about 5 years ago and is easily accessible through Amazon.