Algis Budrys

Algis Budrys

Algis Budrys at the 1985 Clarion Science Fiction Writing Workshop
Born January 9, 1931
Königsberg, East Prussia
Died June 9, 2008(2008-06-09) (aged 77)
Evanston, Illinois, USA
Occupation Novelist, Short-story writer, editor, Critic
Genre Science fiction
Notable works The Falling Torch, Rogue Moon, Who?
Budrys's "Snail's Pace" was the cover story for the October 1953 issue of Dynamic Science Fiction
Budrys's novelette "Shadow on the Stars" was cover-featured on the November 1954 issue of Fantastic Universe
Budrys's short story "Cage of a Thousand Wings" took the cover of the penultimate issue of Planet Stories in 1955
Budrys's novelette "The Strangers" was the cover story for the June 1955 issue of If
Budrys's novelette "Why Should I Stop?" took the cover of the February 1956 issue of Science Fiction Quarterly
Budrys wrote "Resurrection on Fifth Avenue" for Fantastic under his pseudonym "Gordon Jaulyn"

Algis Budrys (January 9, 1931 – June 9, 2008) was a Lithuanian-American science fiction author, editor, and critic. He was also known under the pen names "Frank Mason," "Alger Rome," "John A. Sentry," "William Scarff," and "Paul Janvier."

Biography

Called "AJ" by friends, Budrys was born Algirdas Jonas Budrys in Königsberg in the then East Prussia, to a family which considered itself Lithuanian rather than German. In 1936, when Budrys was five years old, his father Jonas Budrys was appointed as the Lithuanian consul general in New York.[1] Jonas Budrys continued to hold that position, even though Lithuania was occupied by Nazi Germany and then annexed by the Soviet Union and made into a Soviet Republic - since the United States continued to recognize the pre-World War II Lithuanian government and the exile Lithuanian Diplomatic Service was subsidized by State Department. During most of his adult life, Budrys held a captain's commission in the Free Lithuanian Army.

Budrys was educated at the University of Miami, and later at Columbia University in New York. His first published science fiction story was "The High Purpose", which appeared in Astounding Science Fiction in 1952. 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". He also wrote several stories under the names "Ivan Janvier" or "Paul Janvier." He also used the pen name "Alger Rome" in his collaborations with Jerome Bixby.

Budrys's 1960 novella Rogue Moon was nominated for a Hugo Award, and was later anthologized in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two (1973). His Cold War science fiction novel Who? was adapted for the screen in 1973. In addition to numerous Hugo Award and Nebula Award nominations, Budrys won the Science Fiction Research Association's 2007 Pilgrim Award for lifetime contributions to speculative fiction scholarship. In 2009, he was the recipient of one of the first three Solstice Awards presented by the SFWA in recognition of his contributions to the field of science fiction.[2]

Budrys was also a critic for Galaxy Science Fiction[3] and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, a book editor for Playboy, a longtime teacher at the Clarion Writers Workshop and an organizer and judge for the Writers of the Future awards. In addition, he worked as a publicist; in a famous publicity stunt, he erected a giant pickle on the proposed site of the Chicago Picasso during the time the newly arriving sculpture was embroiled in controversy.[4]

Budrys was married to Edna Duna; they had four sons. He last resided in Evanston, Illinois. He died at home, from metastatic malignant melanoma on June 9, 2008.[5]

Bibliography

Novels

Collections (Fiction, Essays, and mixed)

Short stories

Audio recording

Interviews

Magazine

Anthologies

References

  1. ↑ Clute, John. "Obituaries Algis Budrys: Science-fiction writer and editor". The Independent. Independent Co. UK. Retrieved 13 April 2015.
  2. ↑ Nebula Awards Ceremony 2009. Los Angeles, CA: SFWA. 2009. p. 13.
  3. ↑ Pohl, Frederik. (2010-05-12). "Robert A. Heinlein, Algis Budrys and me". The Way the Future Blogs. Archived from the original on August 15, 2010. Retrieved 2010-08-01.
  4. ↑ Zeldes, Leah A. (2010-07-26). "The Picasso put Chicago in a pickle". Dining Chicago. Chicago's Restaurant & Entertainment Guide, Inc. Retrieved 2010-08-01.
  5. ↑ Jensen, Trevor (2008-06-11). "Tapped human side of science fiction". Chicago Tribune. Archived from the original on 2008-06-12. Retrieved 2008-06-11.
  6. ↑ "Stories, Listed by Author". Locus. Archived from the original on February 24, 2010. Retrieved February 24, 2010.

6. Williams, Mark. "The Alien Novelist." Technology Review 111, 6. (Nov/Dec 2008). pp. 80–84

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