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Algis Budrys (born January 9 1931 ) is an American Science Fiction Author .


BIOGRAPHY


Algis Budrys was born Algirdas Jonas Budrys in Königsberg in East Prussia . He was the son of the consul-general of the Lithuania n 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''.


BIBLIOGRAPHY


Novels



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 )



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.



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 )



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