Algis Budrys

(Algirdas Jonas Budrys)

(1931 - 2008)

aka Frank Mason

Algis Budrys is Lithuanian for Gordon John Sentry, more or less. (He made a deal with his mother not to change his name.) He is the author of ten novels, three short story collections, and five non-fiction works. He has taught at Columbia (Chicago), Harvard, Brigham Young University, CalTech, the Charles Dickens House in London, Pepperdine University, the Taos experimental Writers of the Future workshop, and the Library of Congress, to name a few, as well as several annual workshops in Moscow, Idaho. He is the editor and publisher of Tomorrow Speculative Fiction magazine.
Algis Budrys died June 9, 2008.

Genres: Science Fiction

Novels

   False Night (1954)
   Man of Earth (1958)
   Who? (1958)
   The Falling Torch (1959)
   Rogue Moon (1960)
   Some Will Not Die (1961)
   Trueman and the Pendergasts (1963) (as by Frank Mason)
   The Amsirs and the Iron Thorn (1967)
     aka The Iron Thorn
   Michaelmas (1977)
   Hard Landing (1993)
   Entertainment (1997)
   The Death Machine (2001)

Omnibus

Algis Budrys SF Gateway Omnibus (2014)

Collections

   The Stoker and the Stars (1959)
   The Unexpected Dimension (1960)
   Budrys' Inferno (1963)
     aka The Furious Future
   Blood and Burning (1978)
   Blood On My Jets and Others (2009)
   The Barbarians, Citadel, Stoker and The Stars (2010)
   Citadel and Other Stories (2011)
   Science Fiction Gems, Vol. Three (2012) (with Manly Banister, C M Kornbluth, Milton Lesser, Sam Merwin Jr, Stanley Mullen, Kris Neville, Peter Phillips, Clifford D Simak and William Tenn)
   Fantastic Stories Presents: Science Fiction Super Pack 2 (2018) (with Poul Anderson, Jerome Bixby, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Brenda W Clough, Philip K Dick, Harry Harrison, Murry Leinster, Katherine MacLean, Judith Merril, C L Moore, Andre Norton, H Beam Piper, Frederick Pohl, Robert Sheckley, Everlyn E Smith, Allen Steele and Jamie Wild)
   The Science Fiction Collection 3 (2018) (with Alan Arkin, Alexander Blade, Ben Bova, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Harry Harrison, Frank Herbert, Raymond F Jones, Fritz Leiber, C C MacApp, William P McGivern, Frederik Pohl and Weaver Wright)

Novellas

   Citadel (2009)
   The Barbarians (2011)
   Riya's Foundling (2011)
   In Clouds Of Glory (2014)

Series contributed to

Writers of the Future (with L Ron Hubbard)
   1. L Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume I (1986)
   4. L Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume IV (1989)
   15. L Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XV (1999)
   16. L Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XVI (2000)
   17. L Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XVII (2001)
   19. L Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XIX (2003)
   The Best of Writers of the Future (1992)

Non fiction

   Non-Literary Influences on Science Fiction (1983)
   Benchmarks (1985)
   Writing to the Point (1994)
   Outposts (1996)

Anthologies containing stories by Algis Budrys

13 Great Stories of Science Fiction (1960)
Spectrum (1962)
Best SF 6 (1966)
Rod Serling's Devils and Demons (1967)
One Hundred Years of Science Fiction (1968)
Best SF: 1969 (1969)
aka The Year's Best Science Fiction 3
On Our Way to the Future (1970)
Partners in Wonder (1971)
The 9th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1973)
The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1973)
The Golden Road (1974)
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume 2B (1974)
The Best Science Fiction of the Year 5 (1976)
The Best Science Fiction Stories (1977)
The End of Summer (1979)
Science Fiction of the Fifties (1979)
Aliens! (1980)
The Road to Science Fiction 4 (1982)
A Treasury of American Horror Stories (1986)
Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century (1987)
Space Wars (1988)
Robots (1989)
Confederacy of the Dead (1993)
Monster Brigade 3000 (1996)
Visions of Wonder (1996)
UFOs (1997)
The Science Fiction Century (1997)

Short stories

	Death March
	The Weeblies (1953)
	The End of Summer (1954)
	First to Serve (1954)
	Scream at Sea (1954)
	Shadow on the Stars (1954)
	Nobody Bothers Gus (1955)
	The Executioner (1956)
	The Ridge Around the World (1957)
	The War is Over (1957)
	Wonderbird (1957) (with Harlan Ellison)
	Between the Dark and the Daylight (1958)
	The Edge of the Sea (1958)		Hugo (nominee)
	Death Cannot Wither (1959) (with Judith Merril)
	The Girl in the Bottle (1959)
	The Price (1960)
	Rogue Moon [short story] (1960)
	Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night (1961)
	All for Love (1962)
	The Last Brunette (1965)
	Be Merry (1966)
	The Master of the Hounds (1966)
	Now Hear the Word of the Lord (1969)
	A Scraping at the Bones (1975)
	A Scraping of the Bones (1975)		Nebula Awards (nominee)
	The Silent Eyes of Time (1975)		Hugo (nominee)
	The Nuptial Flight of Warbirds (1978)
	Paradise Charted (1980)
	That Fearful Symmetry (1987)
	Grabow and Collicker and I (1992)

Awards

	Hugo Best Short Story nominee (1959) : The Edge of the Sea
	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1959) : Who?
	Hugo Best Novel nominee (1961) : Rogue Moon
	Hugo Best Novella nominee (1976) : The Silent Eyes of Time
	Nebula Awards Best Short Story nominee (1976) : A Scraping of the Bones
	Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (1994) : Hard Landing

Algis Budrys recommends

The Broken Lands (1968)
(Empire of the East, book 1)
Fred Saberhagen
"The work of a master."

Songs of Stars and Shadows (1977)
George R R Martin
"George R R Martin has the voice of a poet and a mind like a steel trap."

The Pleasure Tube (1979)
Robert Onopa
"Reads like dynamite... a rare and academically fascinating piece of work, apart from the fact that it moves well and entertainingly. It tackles something fundamental to the human spirit, and conscientiously does it at least well enough to shake any notion that these matters have been sufficiently settled by other artists."

The Blood Jaguar (1998)
Michael H Payne
"The next big name in fantasy."

The Fall of the Kings (2002)
(Swords of Riverside, book 3)
Ellen Kushner and Delia Sherman
"Ellen Kushner writes like an angel... pellucid, poetically structured prose [and] a gathering sense of tragic reality."

Birds (2004)
Sheila Finch
"A damn fine novel."

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