Child of Fortune

Norman Spinrad

Oct 2013 · Sold by Gateway

About this ebook

In the exotic interstellar civilization of the Second Starfaring Age, youthful wanderers are known as Children of Fortune. This is the tale of one such wanderer, who seeks her destiny on an odyssey of self-discovery amid humanity's many worlds.

Ratings and reviews

I first read this in high school many many years ago. I was completely hooked. Its an eye opening adventure. I also read his "Russian Spring". Wonderful story. He has the quirkiest writing style, it's marvelous, he mixes in bits of different languages. Brilliant. I've read this book probably six times. I was terribly obsessed with it as a teenager. Tried to get everyone I knew to read it. It's about a girl who goes adventuring before deciding whether to attend college. In outer space.

About the author

Norman Spinrad (1940 - )Norman Richard Spinrad was born in New York City in 1940. He began publishing science fiction in 1963 and has been an important, if sometimes controversial, figure in the genre ever since. He was a regular contributor to New Worlds magazine and, ironically, the cause of its banning by W H Smith, which objected to the violence and profanity in his serialised novel Bug Jack Barron. Spinrad's work has never shied away from the confrontational, be it casting Hitler as a spiteful pulp novelist or satirising the Church of Scientology. In addition to his SF novels, he has written non-fiction, edited anthologies and contributed a screenplay to the second season of Star Trek. In 2003, Norman Spinrad was awarded the Prix Utopia, a life achievement award given by the Utopiales International Festival in Frances, where he now lives.