Algis Budrys
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Algis Budrys (born January 9, 1931) is an American science fiction author.
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[edit] Biography
Algis Budrys was born Algirdas Jonas Budrys in Königsberg in East Prussia. He was the son of the consul-general of the Lithuanian government (the pre-WW2 government still recognized after the war by the United States, even though the USSR-sponsored government was in power throughout most of Budrys's life). His family was sent by the Lithuanian government to the USA in 1936 when Budrys was 5 years old.
He was educated at the University of Miami, and later at Columbia University in New York. Beginning in 1952 Budrys worked as editor and manager for such science fiction publishers as Gnome Press and Galaxy Science Fiction. Some of his science fiction in the 1950s was published under the pen name "John A. Sentry", a reconfigured Anglification of his Lithuanian name. Among his other pseudonyms in the sf magazines of the 1950s and elsewhere, several revived as bylines for vignettes in his magazine Tomorrow Speculative Fiction, is "William Scarff."
Budrys is married and lives in Evanston, Illinois.
Budrys also wrote under the pseudonym Frank Mason.
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Novels
- False Night (1954)
- Man of Earth (1956)
- Who? (1958)
- The Falling Torch (1959)
- Rogue Moon (1960)
- Some Will Not Die (1961)
- The Iron Thorn (1967) (as serialized in If (magazine); published in book form as "The Amsirs And The Iron Thorn")
- Michaelmas (1977)
- Hard Landing (1993)
- The Death Machine (2001) (originally published as Rogue Moon against Budrys's wishes)
[edit] Collections (Fiction, Essays, and mixed)
- The Unexpected Dimension (1960)
- Budrys' Inferno (1963)
- The Furious Future (1963)
- Blood and Burning (1978)
- Benchmarks: Galaxy Bookshelf (1984)
- Writing to the Point (1994)
- Outposts: Literatures of Milieux (1996)
- Entertainment (1997)
- The Electric Gene Machine (2000)
[edit] Short Stories
- "The Price" (1960) - first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, February 1960. Also published in the short story anthology 'The War Book' (edited by James Sallis - 1969).
[edit] Audio Recording
- 84.2 Minutes of Algis Budrys (1995), Unifont (Budrys's own company). Released on cassette, this featured Budrys reading his own short stories "The Price," "The Distant Sound of Engines," "Never Meet Again," and "Explosions!".
[edit] Magazine
- Tomorrow Speculative Fiction (1993-2000); initially edited by Budrys and published by Pulphouse, with its second issue it was published and edited by Budrys with assistance from Kandis Elliott under the Unifont rubric. It ceased publication as a paper and ink magazine and became a webzine late in the decade.
[edit] Anthologies
- L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Vol. III (1987)
- L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Vol. 6 (1990)
- L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Vol 12 (1996)
- L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Vol. 16 (2000)
- L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Vol 19 (2003)
