[kj] Author Norman Spinrad's use of the phrase "Brighter Than a Thousand Suns" in the 1970s

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

Well, of course his name is Norman Spinrad, and he is an author, but, 
yes, Arthur Norman Spinrad, if that were his name, which it isn't, 
that'd be up there with Nathaniel Whipple or something. Old school 
Harvard elite or something.

Incidentally, Norman Spinrad wrote an alternative history book about 
Hitler, where Hitler becomes a sci-fi writer after leaving Germany in 
the 1930s, and he writes a novel called _The Iron Dream_. Spinrad's 
novel about this called _The Iron Dream_ and contains the text of 
Hitler's novel, which is an unabashed Aryan power fantasy. The book was 
banned in Germany because there's a swastika on the cover. Since Jaz 
also likes this kind of stuff I was thinking Jaz must have known about 
Spinrad and his fiction, and maybe since the "Big Falash" was about a 
rock band using the phrase "Brighter Than a Thousand Suns," that was 
where Jaz specifically got the inspiration.

But I don't know that much about the BTATS title's story otherwise. I 
was just shocked reading this short story about the rock group from the 
70s and seeing they also used it.

I could quote the passages at length.

-Oliver



Brendan wrote:

> Or Heineken...

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> PS: Arthur Norman Spinrad...great name! Sounds like the kind of bloke who

> has a purple velvet smoking jacket and a plush study filled with dusty

> books, huge fluffy eyebrows and a penchant for buggery...

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