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  Algis Budrys   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Algis Budrys was born in Königsberg[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link] in Prussia Prussia quick summary:
He was the son of the consul-general of the Lithuania[For more facts and a topic of this subject, click this link]n government-in-exile.
Algis Budrys is married and lives with his 4 sons in Illinois Illinois quick summary:
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/al/algis_budrys.htm   (670 words)

  
 New Wave (science fiction) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was later applied to 1970s punk rock in the UK and to new wave music.
Ray Bradbury, Theodore Sturgeon, Fritz Leiber, Algis Budrys (especially for his novel Rogue Moon with its use of Freudianism), and Alfred Bester can be considered as important precursors of the movement.
In his introduction to a reprint of Leigh Brackett's Martian Quest, Michael Moorcock, the editor of New Worlds and thus the New Wave's prime instigator, wrote "With Catherine Moore, Judith Merril and Cele Goldsmith, Leigh Brackett is one of the true godmothers of the New Wave.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/New_Wave_(science_fiction)   (1062 words)

  
 Turkey City Lexicon
Damon Knight) or "maid and butler dialogue" (attr Algis Budrys).
A form of info-dump in which the author inflicts upon the reader hard-won, but irrelevant bits of data acquired while researching the story.
As Algis Budrys once pointed out, homework exists to make the difficult look easy.
www.sfwa.org /writing/turkeycity.html   (4410 words)

  
 Some Will Not Die (www.emptyworld.info)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Most notably the foreign threat and the subversion of American values which is so evident in most novels of this genre (the decedant, homosexual Greeks in the Horseclan Series or the severe Japanese slave masters of the Amtrak Wars books) are entirely absent.
The whole thing is a cracking good read as an adventure story, a future history and as a 'study in the effeects of massive depopulation on human nature' as one of Budry's character's writes in what is effectively the book's prolgue.
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www.emptyworld.info /book_some_will_not_die.html   (215 words)

  
 MORE JEFF BERKWITS LINKS
It's Up To The Fans To Make The Internet A True "Final Encyclopedia"
Algis Budrys is an editor of tomorrow for Writers of the Future
War of the World: All is not Wells with the world in this intriguing interpretation of a classic SF tale [Radio program review]
www.frankwu.com /Berkwits.html   (131 words)

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