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Benchmarks: Galaxy Bookshelf
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Benchmarks: Galaxy Bookshelf
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by Algis Budrys
Sales Rank : 1955233
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Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Southern Illinois University; 1st edition April 1, 1985
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0809311879
ISBN-13: 978-0809311873
Product Dimensions:
8.8 x 5.9 x 1.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
Product 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 acerb path through that sparsely charted literary territory.
Budrys defines his standards and his function in his own words: “A book should he good. A bird should fly.
“Writers of imperfect, tousled books should be made aware that standards of breeding and grooming exist. I strive to fulfill that function.”
About The Author
Algis Budrys, critic and SF historian, is the author of such acclaimed novels as Michaelmas and Rogue Moon.
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