Algis Budrys

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Image:TheFallingTorch1962paperback.JPG Algis Budrys (born January 9 1931) is an American science fiction author.

1 Biography
2 Bibliography
3 External links

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 emigrated 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.

Budrys is married and lives with his four sons in Evanston, Illinois.

Budrys also wrote under the pseudonym Frank Mason.

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Bibliography

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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) (also "The Amsirs And The Iron Thorn")
Michaelmas (1977)
Hard Landing (1993)
The Death Machine (2001) (Rogue Moon under its intended title)

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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)

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Magazine

Tomorrow Speculative Fiction (1993-2000); initially edited by Burdrys and published by Pulphouse, with its second issue it was published and edited by Budrys with assistance from Kandis Elliott. It ceased publication as a paper and ink magazine and became a webzine late in the decade.

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