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Bug Jack Barron
''Bug Jack Barron'' is a 1969 science fiction novel written by Norman Spinrad, and was nominated for the 1970 Hugo awards.
The book was serialised in the British New Wave science fiction magazine ''New Worlds'' during Michael Moorcock's editorship. Its explicit language and cynical attitude toward politicians, as well as the fact that the magazine was partially funded by the British Arts Council, angered British Members of Parliament.〔Michael Ashley, ''History of the Science Fiction Magazine, 1950–1970, Volume 2: Transformations''. (Liverpool, England: Liverpool University Press, 2005) 250.〕 Jennie Lee, Baroness Lee of Asheridge, then head of the Arts Council, successfully defended the book. Later, it was banned by W. H. Smith, a major British chain of bookstores.〔John J. Pierce, ''Odd Genre: A Study in Imagination and Evolution'' (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994) 159, Questia, Web, 6 August 2010.〕 Feminist typesetters at ''New Worlds'' rejected the story as sexist.〔Michael Moorcock, ed., ''New Worlds, An Anthology''. ( London: Fontana, 1983), p. 505.〕
==Plot introduction==
The story takes place in the not too distant future where an exploitative talk-show host, Jack Barron, gradually uncovers a conspiracy concerning an immortality treatment and the methods used in that treatment.
The future world portrayed in this book is chaotic and self-regulating, and Spinrad shows a future where greater freedom allows interaction via electronic democracy to bring about good results.〔Gregory Benford, "Reactionary Utopias," Storm Warnings: Science Fiction Confronts the Future, ed. George E. Slusser, Colin Greenland, and Eric S. Rabkin (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1987) 82, Questia, Web, 6 August 2010.〕
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