SF writer Algis Budrys, 77
Posted: Tuesday, July 8th, 2008 2:05 pm
January 9, 1931 - June 9, 2008
Algis Budrys was one of the writers who made his name alongside such luminaries as Arthur C. Clarke and Philip K. Dick in the early-1950s boom in science-fiction magazines. …
Budrys’s first novel, False Night, published by the small New York firm Lion Books in 1954, tells of the slow recovery of the world after it has been devastated by a plague. In his second novel, Man of Earth (1958), circumstances force the weedy businessman protagonist, Allen Sibley, to buy himself a new, much-improved body and then light out for Pluto, but he ends up with a mind that does not belong to him or his alter ego.
Budrys’s Who? (1958) was greeted as one of the science-fiction genre’s most humane studies of dehumanisation. … Read full obituary
