Date: 19 Jun 89 23:48:22 PDT (Monday)
Subject: Author Lists: Algis Budrys
From: jwenn@world.std.com (John Wenn)
To: SF-LOVERS%rutgers:EDU
Edited: 17-Dec-93

The three Algis Budrys novels I've read have all been very good:  "Who?"
is a tale of an injured American scientist (vital to the national defense)
returned by the Russians.  The problem is that so much of him has been
replaced with prosthetics that the Americans can't be sure it's *really*
the same person.  "Rogue Moon" contains an alien artifact (a maze) on the
far side of the moon that quickly kills anyone attempting to enter it.
"Michaelmas" is an excellent story of the secret president of Earth. 
(OK, the story sounds hokey, but it's really very good).  His fiction is
particularly strong on characterization.  He's also one of the great SF
reviewers in history ("Benchmarks" is a collection of his reviews, he
currently reviews in F&SF).  And he does the "Writers of the Future"
anthologies.  I can recommend any of the three novels I've read.

[C] == Story Collection.
[CB] == Chapbook (a very short book, or pamphlet).
[Abr.] == Abridgment of other title.
[= ...] == Also known by this other title.
exp == Expansion of other title.

Budrys, Algi(rda)s (Jonas)	(East Prussia, U.S.A., 1/9/1931- )	G
	(pseudonym: Frank Mason)

The Amsirs and the Iron Thorn (1967) [= The Iron Thorn]
Blood and Burning (1978) [C]
Budrys' Inferno (1963) [C= The Furious Future]
Cerberus (Pulphouse, 1989) [CB]
The Falling Torch (1959) [rev. 1990]
False Night (1954)
Hard Landing (1993)
Man of Earth (1958)
Michaelmas (1977)
Rogue Moon (1960)
Some Will Not Die (1961) [exp. of False Night]
The Unexpected Dimension (1960) [C]
Who? (1958)

Edited
Writers of the Future (1985)
Writers of the Future, Vol. II (1986)
Writers of the Future, Vol. III (1987)
Writers of the Future, Vol. IV (1988)
Writers of the Future, Vol. V (1989)
Writers of the Future, Vol. VI (1990)
Writers of the Future, Vol. VII (1991)
Writers of the Future, Vol. VIII (1992)

Non-Genre Fiction
as Frank Mason
	Truman and the Pendergasts (1963) [Regency]

Nonfiction
Benchmarks: Galaxy Bookshelf by Algis Budrys (1985) [C/Reviews]
Non-Literary Influences on Science Fiction (1983) [CB/rewrite of Science Fiction Dialogues]
Science Fiction Dialogues (1982) [CB]
Writing Science Fiction and Fantasy (Pulphouse, 1990) [Writer's Chapbook #17]
Writing to the Point (1994) [CB]

Non-Genre
Bicycles ... How They Work and How to Fix Them (1976)

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