Author

Publication

1985 - Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale, Illinois

Language

English

Word Count

87,250 words, Guess

Page Count

349 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100809311879
  • ISBN-139780809311873
  • LibraryThing1137468
  • Library of Congress Control Number84010518
  • OCLC Control Number10780118
and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780809311873
  • Open LibraryOL2848337M

Classifications

  • DDC809.3/876
  • LCCPN3433.8 .B83 1985
  • LCCPN3433.8.B83 1985

Alternate Titles

  • Galaxy magazine.

Description

Over the years since 1965, Algis Budrys has emerged as the leading critic of mod­ern speculative fiction: insightful, eclectic, and notoriously uninhibited. Benchmarks collects the material that started it all: 54 Galaxy Bookshelf book-review columns Budrys created for the now-vanished Galaxy Magazine. Written for what was then the world’s leading SF periodical, these legendary summations and summary judgments coincided with the period when newsstand-borne science fiction and fantasy were evolving from pulp toward literature. Budrys’ Galaxy reviews trace an incisive, sometimes wickedly acerbic path through that sparsely charted literary territory.

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Series Statement

  • Alternatives

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