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Galaxies
In a genre that claimed to be a storehouse of innovation yet enforced strict narrative rules and codes of conduct, Malzberg stuck out like a forked tongue, composing works of bona fide literature that dwarfed the efforts of his contemporaries and established him as one of science fiction's most dynamic enfant terribles.
Originally published in 1975, Galaxies is a masterwork of the Malzberg canon, which includes over fifty novels and collections. Metafictional, absurdist, and sardonic, the book mounts a concerted attack against the market forces that prescribed SF of the 1970s and continue to prescribe it today. At the same time, the book tells a story of technology and cyborgs, of bureaucracy and tachyons, of love and hate and sadness ...
Despite his deviant literary antics, Malzberg could not be ignored by the SF community. In 1973, he won the first annual John W. Campbell Memorial Award, which is presented to the best SF novel of the year by a distinguished committee of SF experts, authors, and critics. Thereafter he received nominations for the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, among others.
Galaxies is among the works listed in acclaimed SF editor David Pringle's Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels, published in 1985. With a foreword by Jack Dann, this anti-oedipal edition ushers Malzberg's genius into the twenty-first century.
Book Details
- Publisher: Anti-Oedipus Press
- Publish Date: Mar 17th, 2014
- Pages: 210
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.00in - 0.48in - 0.51lb
- EAN: 9780989239141
- Categories: • Science Fiction - General
Praise for this book
"There are possibly a dozen genius writers in the genre of the imaginative, and Barry Malzberg is at least eight of them." -Harlan Ellison
"Malzberg makes persuasively clear that the best of science fiction should be valued as literature and nothing else." -The Washington Post
"One of the finest practitioners of science fiction." -Harry Harrison
"Barry N. Malzberg's writing is unparalleled in its intensity and in its apocalyptic sensibility. His detractors consider him bleakly monotonous and despairing, but he is a master of black humor, and is one of the few writers to have used science fiction's vocabulary of ideas extensively as apparatus in psychological landscapes, dramatizing relationships between the human mind and its social environment in an SF theater of the absurd." -The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
"The writer who attempts to use the SF mythos as Malzberg has is bedevilled by the inappropriateness of the 'rules' pertaining to the production and consumption of mass-produced fiction." -Brian Stableford
"Malzberg is a true hero." -The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction
"There is no one, with the possible exception of Philip K. Dick, whose works, each one of them, are so unpredictable or so outrageous and outraged." -Theodore Sturgeon
"Barry Malzberg is one of science fiction's most literate and erudite writers." -New York Times Book Review
"Science fiction is dead, but Malzberg is alive!" -D. Harlan Wilson