Algis Budrys
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Algis Budrys (born January 9 1931) is an American science fiction author.
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Biography
Algis Budrys was born Algirdas Jonas Budrys in Königsberg in Prussia. He was the son of the consul-general of the Lithuanian government-in-exile. 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 some science fiction publishers. Some of his science fiction in the 1950s was published under the pen name "John Sentry", an approximate translation of his Lithuanian name.
Budrys is married and lives with his four sons in Illinois.
Bibliography
Novels
- False Night (1954)
- Man of Earth (1956)
- Who? (1958)
- The Falling Torch (1959)
- Some Will Not Die (1961)
- Rogue Moon (1960)
- 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)
Collections (Fiction, Essays, and mixed)
- "The Unexpected Dimension" (1960)
- "Budrys' Inferno" (1963)
- "The Furious Future" (1963)
- "Blood and Burning" (1978)
- "Writing to the Point" (1994)
- "Outposts: Literatures of Milieux" (1996)
- "Entertainment" (1997)
- "The Electric Gene Machine" (2000)
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)
External links
- Bibliography (http://scifan.com/writers/bb/BudrysJAlgirdas.asp) in SciFan
- Interview with Algis Budrys (http://www.sfsite.com/08a/alg14.htm)bg:Алгис Будрис