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By Norman Spinrad
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Right click on the title above to download the novel. The following is a message emailed to me recently by the author. This RTF file, the complete unabridged text of HE WALKED AMONG US, originally published in 2002 by eBooks and copyright © 2002 by Norman Spinrad, is shareware. You are encouraged but not obligated to send as much or as little payment as you like to the author, Norman Spinrad. Since downloads have sold for about $7.00 and the trade paperback for $25, I suggest $5.00 as a fair amount, though more will be gratefully accepted and less will not be scorned. I am doing this as an experiment because I believe HE WALKED AMONG US should have as wide a readership as possible and because the previous experiment with print on demand and pay for download editions provided inadequate results. Payments can be made via PayPal, going to the pay section, and using my email address, normanspinrad@compuserve.com, for those who have PayPal accounts, or by mail to: Norman Spinrad Cash would be preferred for mail payments, but checks in dollars or euros or pounds sterling can be processed and would also be gratefully accepted. Permission is hereby granted to copy and send this file as an e-mail attachment to any interested party and to post on any web site or in any newsgroup provided that this file is reproduced in its entirety, including this notice, and you are enthusiastically encouraged to do so. All other rights including but not limited to world volume rights are reserved, and except for German rights, are free and available for conventional publication. Additional copies of this file may be obtained by e-mailing me at: normanspinrad@compuserve.com, or through the e-mail link at my web site: http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/normanspinrad NOTE: This is an experiment of a kind which has never been done before to my knowledge, at least not in this open distribution shareware manner, and if it works many multiple copies of this HE WALKED AMONG US file will exist in cyberspace more or less permanently. So if you wish to send cash or a paper check after, say, 2006, go to my website above, where any address changes will be posted. Norman Spinrad
Also, here is some additional information about this novel Mr. Spinrad sent a couple of years ago when he made sample chapters available. Why was HE WALKED AMONG US (called "the Magnum Opus of one of the best-known sf writers of the age" on the cover of its original edition) first published in German rather than English? Why is its first English language edition electronic? What do conventional American publishers find so dangerous about this novel? Is HE WALKED AMONG US a comic novel about show biz or a science fiction novel? Is Ralf, the comedian from the future, just throwing schtick, or is he what he claims to be, an emissary sent back from a terminal future to save the human race from its own stupidity through laughter? Or could he even be something more? Maybe much more? For HE WALKED AMONG US is also a meta quantum physical novel about mind and time and space, and given enough of all three, surely there will be more things therein than are dreamt of in our current philosophies. Or not. For HE WALKED AMONG US has been called "the first meta science fiction novel," a novel about our collective mediated dreamtime and its creators, about the interplay of what we call "science" and what we call "fantasy" and what we call "entertainment," of the realities of show biz, New Age mysticism and science fiction writers, publishers, and fans. And how that dreamtime calls into being what we are pleased to call "the real world."
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