What garbage. These are the first writings I have read by Spinrad. I am aware he has won awards and is admired by Harlan Ellison but his material does not age well.

Because he has won awards (and only because) I will try one of his award winning novels....someday.

This was a collection of short stories first published in the early 1970s. Two of the stories are worth reading and the rest is the ranting of a drug head mostly writing about the drugs. ( )

A Harvard read requirement for Kennedy School of Gov't e-1880, HU-DCE ( )

A collection of late-'60s, early-'70s sci-fi, which means that the themes can be summed up as follows: sex 'n' drugs 'n' Vietnam.

As with much, particularly the socially-conscious works, from this era of the genre, it hasn't always aged as gracefully as might have been hoped. ( )