# The Star-Spangled Future

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- Book: [The Star-Spangled Future](https://www.bookquiver.com/norman-spinrad/the-star-spangled-future) ([The Star-Spangled Future.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/norman-spinrad/the-star-spangled-future.md))
- Authors: [Norman Spinrad](https://www.bookquiver.com/norman-spinrad)
- Publisher: gateway
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-05-7511-735-8
- Published: 2011-09-29
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

American Dream or American Nightmare? Norman Spinrad describes The Star-Spangled Future: " America is something new under the sun. not so much a nation at all as a precog flash of the future of the species . . . I wrote believing that I was simply writing disconnected science fiction stories from whatever came into my head . . . And they all turned out to be about America, the leading edge of all possible futures unfolding around us . . . After all, that was what was coming into my head, that's the mother lode of science fiction realities - the American fusion plasma of which we are creatures - and all we have to do is keep ourselves open to it . . . that's my definition of science fiction. We have seen the future and it is us."