Algis Budrys: Science-fiction writer and editor
Independent nekrologas Amerikos lietuviui, fantastikos zanro rasytojui Algiui Budriui.
His short stories are incisive, intellectually challenging and highly professional; but now read too often as though they are bursting at their seams, as though they should have taken longer to tell. Although some of them, like "Nobody Bothers Gus" (1955), remain intensely readable, they are the work of a man intent on proving himself against the challenge of other new writers like Philip K. Dick and Richard Matheson.
But it is with the novels that Budrys's full, obdurate, gripping, hard-thinking intensity as a creative mind fully blossoms. [...]
Budrys's early masterpiece, Rogue Moon (1960), soon followed. [...] its depiction of modern humanity lost in deadly labyrinths of its own making has been influential on at least two generations of science-fiction writers, including Greg Bear, William Gibson, Dan Simmons.
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Komentarai
txd
@ 18.06.2008 15:32 GMT+2Fantastika. Aš kaip tik ruošiausi apie jį pabloginti -- prieš gal mėnesį knygų mugėje NZ radau dvi jo knygeles "Rogue Moon" ir "Who?", labai skaniai susiskaitė. O vat pasirodo nekrologas mane aplenkė.. :(
Nu aš dar apie jį parašysiu.
mart
@ 20.06.2008 02:00 GMT+2Butinai parasyk, o kai grisiu i Lietuva, gal galim ivykdyt laikina apsikeitima idomiom knygelem?