Algis Budrys

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(January 9, 1931 -- June 9, 2008)

A pro writer, critic and editor, Algis Budrys (also known as A. J. Budrys, and called Ajay by friends) was first published in Astounding in 1952. He worked both as a writer and as an editor — he was involved with both Gnome Press and Galaxy. He also used a variety of pen names, but the most well-known was Paul Janvier. He taught at Clarion and was a member of the Fanoclasts.

His fanzine dubious had two issues in 1960; the text of both is included in the collection A Budrys Miscellany: Occasional Writing 1960-2000 (Ansible Editions, 2020) compiled by David Langford. He belonged to the ESFA, and met his wife, Edna, through the club.

Probably his best-known works were the Hugo-nominated novels Who? (1958) and Rogue Moon (1960). He is also highly regarded for his SF criticism, including a long series of review columns for Galaxy that was collected as Benchmarks: Galaxy Bookshelf (1985), and an even longer sequence for F&SF eventually published in the three volumes Benchmarks Continued (Ansible Editions, 2012), Benchmarks Revisited (Ansible Editions, 2013) and Benchmarks Concluded (Ansible Editions, 2013). From 1993 to 2000 he edited — and after the first issue also published — the magazine Tomorrow Speculative Fiction (24 printed issues, continuing online).

He received Hugo nominations for the 1956 Best Novelette Hugo, the 1956 Best Short Story Hugo, the 1959 Best Short Story Hugo, the 1959 Best Novel Hugo, the 1961 Best Novel Hugo, the 1976 Best Novella Hugo, the 1986 Best Non-Fiction Book Hugo, the 1994 Best Semiprozine Hugo, the 1995 Best Semiprozine Hugo, and the 2004 Best Novelette Hugo.

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