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According to critic Galen Strickland, " Spinrad has never taken the easy course of artistic repetition, nor tailored his thoughts to the dictates of any editor.

Each of his books are unique, and explore avenues of thought and speculation few others have traveled.

Sex and power are usually his primary themes ".

Consciousness altering drugs often feature prominently in his stories.

According to Spinrad: If there's one gaping void in the story of American literary history in the second half of the twentieth century as currently promulgated, it's the influence of grass and psychedelic drugs, not only on the lives of writers, but on the content of what's been written, and on the form and style too.

It's hard to be critically or biographically courageous when so much creative work was done under the influences of jailable offenses.