Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} The Unexpected Dimension by Budrys Algis Cover Art by Alun Hood. Fontana # 5407. This engaging novel features a reporter using an advanced computer to gather news. Strangely, he not only receives the news but ----- he can also make things happen the way he wants! But there was one mystery that the computer couldn't solve - and it was critical to the future of humanity. 221 pages. CONDITION: a bright, tight, square, unmarked, uncreased, likely unread copy with light edge- and corner-wear, its interior pristine. This handsome copy is now in a clear, protective polypropylene bag. NOTE: A higher resolution cover scan will gladly be supplied on request. This small item will be shipped with a complimentary upgrade to trackable First Class on domestic (US) orders. Size: 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall. "Terra" Utopische Roman, - Moewig-Verlag, Glasgow, 1979. Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Alun Hood (cover art) (illustrator). First Paperback Edition. Michaelmas. Budrys, Algis (cover art by Alun Hood) Published by London: Fontana/Collins 1979 First Fontana Paperback Printing ISBN 0-00-615407-7 (1979) Algis Budrys. Algis Budrys (January 9, 1931 – June 9, 2008) was a Lithuanian-American science fiction author, editor, and critic. He was also known under the pen names "Frank Mason," "Alger Rome," "John A. Sentry," "William Scarff," and "Paul Janvier." Contents. Biography. Called "AJ" by friends, Budrys was born Algirdas in Königsberg in East Prussia. He was the son of Jonas Budrys, the consul general of the Lithuanian government, [1] (the pre-World War II government still recognized after the war by the United States, even though the Soviet- sponsored government was in power throughout most of Budrys's life). His family was sent to the United States by the Lithuanian government in 1936 when Budrys was 5 years old. During most of his adult life, he held a captain's commission in the Free Lithuanian Army. Budrys was educated at the University of Miami, and later at Columbia University in New York. His first published science fiction story was "The High Purpose", which appeared in Astounding Science Fiction in 1952. Beginning in 1952 Budrys worked as editor and manager for such science fiction publishers as Gnome Press and Galaxy Science Fiction. Some of his science fiction in the 1950s was published under the pen name "John A. Sentry", a reconfigured Anglification of his Lithuanian name. Among his other pseudonyms in the SF magazines of the 1950s and elsewhere, several revived as bylines for vignettes in his magazine Tomorrow Speculative Fiction , is "William Scarff". He also wrote several stories under the names "Ivan Janvier" or "Paul Janvier." He also used the pen name "Alger Rome" in his collaborations with Jerome Bixby. Budrys's 1960 novella Rogue Moon was nominated for a Hugo Award, and was later anthologized in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two (1973). His Cold War science fiction novel Who? was adapted for the screen in 1973. In addition to numerous Hugo Award and Nebula Award nominations, Budrys won the Science Fiction Research Association's 2007 Pilgrim Award for lifetime contributions to speculative fiction scholarship. In 2009, he was the recipient of one of the first three Solstice Awards presented by the SFWA in recognition of his contributions to the field of science fiction. [2] Budrys was also a critic for Galaxy Science Fiction [3] and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, a book editor for Playboy , a longtime teacher at the Clarion Writers Workshop and an organizer and judge for the Writers of the Future awards. In addition, he worked as a publicist; in a famous publicity stunt, he erected a giant pickle on the proposed site of the Chicago Picasso during the time the newly arriving sculpture was embroiled in controversy. [4] Budrys was married to Edna Duna; they had four sons. He last resided in Evanston, Illinois. He died at home, from metastatic malignant melanoma on June 9, 2008. [5] Bibliography. Novels. False Night (1954) Man of Earth (1956) Who? (1958) The Falling Torch (1959) Rogue Moon (1960) Some Will Not Die (1961) (an expanded and restored version of False Night ) The Iron Thorn (1967) (as serialized in If ; revised and published in book form as The Amsirs and the Iron Thorn ). On a bleak forbidding planet, humans hunt Amsirs – flightless humanoid birds – and vice versa. After one young hunter makes his first kill, he's initiated into the society's secrets. Still, he figures there are secrets the human race has forgotten altogether, and begins to hunt for answers. Michaelmas (1977) Hard Landing (1993) The Death Machine (2001) (originally published as Rogue Moon against Budrys's wishes) Collections (Fiction, Essays, and mixed) The Unexpected Dimension (1960) Budrys' Inferno (1963) The Furious Future (1963) Blood and Burning (1978) Benchmarks: Galaxy Bookshelf (1985) Writing to the Point (1994) Outposts: Literatures of Milieux (1996) Entertainment (1997) The Electric Gene Machine (2000) Benchmarks Continued: F&SF "Books" Columns 1975-1982 (2012) Benchmarks Revisited: F&SF "Books" Columns 1983-1986 (2013) Benchmarks Concluded: F&SF "Books" Columns 1987-1993 (2013) Short stories. "The High Purpose" (1952) in Astounding Science Fiction "Walk to the World" (1952) in Space Science Fiction , Nov 1952 "The Congruent People" (1953) in Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2 (edited by Frederik Pohl), 1953 "Protective Mimicry" in Galaxy Science Fiction , 1953. "Riya's Foundling" (1953) in Science Fiction Stories , 1953. "The End of Summer" (1954) in Astounding Science Fiction ; also published in the short story anthology Penguin Science Fiction (edited by Brian Aldiss, 1961). "Ironclad" in Galaxy Science Fiction", 1954. "Citadel" (1955) in Astounding Science Fiction , February 1955. "Nobody bothers Gus" (1955) published in Astounding Science Fiction , November 1955. "The War is Over" ( 1957) – first appeared in Astounding Science Fiction Feb. 1957. Also published in the short story anthology 13 Great Stories of Science Fiction (edited by Groff Conklin, 1960.) "The Barbarians" (1958) (as John Sentry) in If , February 1958. "The Stoker and the Stars" (1959) (as John A. Sentry) in Astounding Science Fiction , February 1959. "The Price" (1960) – first appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , February 1960. Also published in the short story anthology The War Book (edited by James Sallis, 1969). "For Love" (originally published in Galaxy Science Fiction , June 1962) – appears in The Seventh Galaxy Reader edited by Frederik Pohl (Doubleday Science Fiction, 1964). "Be Merry" (1966) published in If , December 1966, Vol. 16, No. 12, Issue 109. "The Master of the Hounds" (1966) first published in The Saturday Evening Post and an Edgar Award nominee. Audio recording. 84.2 Minutes of Algis Budrys (1995), Unifont (Budrys's own company). Released on cassette, this featured Budrys reading his short stories "The Price", "The Distant Sound of Engines", "Never Meet Again", and "Explosions!". Interviews. Taking Your Chances (1990) in Leading Edge #20/21 [6] Magazine. Tomorrow Speculative Fiction (1993–2000); initially edited by Budrys and published by Pulphouse Publishing, with its second issue it was published and edited by Budrys with assistance from Kandis Elliott under the Unifont rubric. It ceased publication as a paper and ink magazine and became a webzine late in the decade. Anthologies. L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Vol. III (1987) L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Vol. 6 (1990) L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Vol 12 (1996) L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Vol. 16 (2000) L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Vol 19 (2003) References. ↑ Clute, John. "Obituaries Algis Budrys: Science-fiction writer and editor". The Independent . Independent Co. UK . Retrieved April 13, 2015 . ↑ Nebula Awards Ceremony 2009 . Los Angeles, CA: SFWA. 2009. p. 13. ↑Pohl, Frederik. (May 12, 2010). "Robert A. Heinlein, Algis Budrys and me". The Way the Future Blogs . Archived from the original on August 15, 2010 . Retrieved August 1, 2010 . Unknown parameter |deadurl= ignored (help) ↑Zeldes, Leah A. (July 26, 2010). "The Picasso put Chicago in a pickle". Dining Chicago . Chicago's Restaurant & Entertainment Guide, Inc . Retrieved August 1, 2010 . ↑ Jensen, Trevor (June 11, 2008). "Tapped human side of science fiction". Chicago Tribune . Archived from the original on June 12, 2008 . Retrieved June 11, 2008 . ↑"Stories, Listed by Author". Locus. Archived from the original on February 24, 2010 . Retrieved February 24, 2010 . 6. Williams, Mark. "The Alien Novelist." Technology Review 111, 6 . (Nov/Dec 2008). pp. 80–84. The Unexpected Dimension by Algis Budrys. In a broad sense, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and Edgar Rice Burroughs should be considered the foundation stones of contemporary science fiction: Burroughs writes the highly fantastical side and Wells the largely realist (or at least human-centric) side, while Verne represents a kind of middle ground, a fascination with the possibilities of technology and science as it plays against both sides. The fathers of space opera, soft science fiction, and hard sf, respectively, they have directly or indirectly influenced science fiction since. Squarely in the Wells’ camp, and thus the most likely to transcend his time yet be forgotten, was Algis Budrys. Largely overlooked when 50s’ sf is discussed, the descendants of Burroughs and Verne (e.g. Asimov, Heinlein, etc.) hog the spotlight all the while Budrys, along with a handful of other writers from his era, remain deserving of further discussion. Pulling together the best stories from the first eight years of his career, Budrys’ The Unexpected Dimension (1960) is as much representation of Wells’ legacy as it is engaging soft science fiction in its own right. While reviewers today would be likely to call the story Dickian, “The End of Summer” was before Philip K. Dick’s time. About memory editing on an Earth where life has been extended near to indefinite, the novelette opens with a man returning to his US home after hector-years living in Europe. Having reviewed his memories of his previous time in the US on the flight over, he takes his time getting to his home, enjoying the long drive from the airport. But once at his old apartment and back in society, not all is calm and certain. Budrys’ sparse style suiting the story being told, he portrays the man, and the people around hinm, as more dependent on the memory vaults they carry than actual memory itself. Loss of the man’s memory vault a natural springboard into interesting story, what happens after examines—yes, like PKD—memory, perception, conspiracy theories, and the surreal, resulting in powerful, if not Brave New World -esque, ending. The title literal and figurative, “The Distant Sound of Engines” is another piece about memory. A short work, it tells of a driver who lost his legs in an accident and is now convalescing in a hospital room, listening to the sound of cars and trucks on the highway outside his window. About what the brain retains as long term and short term memory, Budrys writes subtly but powerfully. Budrys a writer who chooses one or two ideas and takes his time unpacking them, the stories in The Unexpected Dimension unfurl slowly but satisfyingly. Something of a socio-political experiment, “The Burning World” posits a far-future wherein a utopian society has been created. The military subsumed into citizenry (each person armed), tension results when a rebellious leader wants to re-introduce an independent military for “protection of freedom.” This large canvas looked at through the eyes of a select few characters, Budrys uses an intentionally reduced political landscape to explore the petty statements and actions of two politicians. Largely an abstract story for this structuring, the reader is required to forego the epicness of such a struggle, but is rewarded for the resulting familiarity with real-world politics. Another political piece, “First to Serve” at first appears as commentary on Asimov’s Robot stories, but as it develops becomes a more universal criticism of the expectations of leadership on soldiers, and the inhuman manner in which they are treated. The army the largest non-democratic organization in existence, a soldier’s obedience and willingness to follow orders are expected to be automatic. But they are human, with human reactions to forced obeisance, which would seem to make a robot the best soldier. Or would it? An interesting story. A radical concept delivered in simple terms, “The Executioner” combines extreme religious thinking in government with an equally extreme sense of capitol punishment. Guns and radical ideology, as one can imagine, result in an ugly scene, but one which goes a long way toward presenting the human capacity for absurdism, or at least faith. The oddest story in the collection for setting alone (i.e. the only non-Earth based), “Go and Behold Them” tells of a man sent to discover what became of a husband and wife duo of scientists exploring an unknown quadrant of space. A tragedy is ultimately discovered, but a hauntingly beautiful one that transcends the setting. An alternate history with Germany winning WWII, “Never Meet Again” looks at Europe fifteen years after the war through the eyes of a German scientist who helped develop submarine radar, and continues to work on top secret technology. Life in utopian Berlin heavily government controlled, the scientist, now in old age, loves the advantages German modernism has brought to the city after the war, but in conversation with a colleague comes to realize certain political realities may not be so advantageous. To describe his reaction is to spoil the story, so suffice at saying… he is allowed an alternate perspective that nicely contextualizes the state of Europe and the world after WWII, in turn providing an excellent example of how sci-fi sensawunda can be applied in humanist terms. Each story polished and carefully constructed, The Unexpected Dimension is a debut collection as it shoud be: give a writer several years to develop and coalesce their skills per story, and once they’ve got enough quality material, put the pearls in a collection. Capturing the best of the first eight years of Budrys’ career, it likewise serves as a great introduction to the writer’s style and underlying concern with the effects of technology, memory, radical ideology, and time. A solid effort by Budrys as grandpa Wells approves from the wings of history. The following are the seven stories collected in The Unexpected Dimension : The End of Summer The Distant Sound of Engines Never Meet Again The Burning World First to Serve Go and Behold Them The Executioner. 2 comments: Budrys was twenty-three when he wrote 'The End of Summer,' just as a detail. Yeah, Budrys was and is highly underrated. There was a time when he looked to be the most likely candidate to make an adult literature out of SF, partly because he was an interesting thinker and partly because of his adeptness at infusing mainstream lit techniques into SF. I see you've reviewed 'The Silent Eyes of Time' from the mid-1970s, so that's the kind of thing I mean and wanted to see more of. But so is the beautiful way that WHO? is structured -- and Budrys wrote that back in the 1950s. As regards THE UNEXPECTED DIMENSION, I think there's something interesting in each of the stories in this collection except maybe 'Go And Behold Them' and I first read them when I was a kid in the 1960s. (And I've reread them many times since.) But the style and Budrys's recourse to or avoidance of then-standard plot moves in his short fiction of the 1950s is still a little too redolent of the writing-level of the genre then for my taste. (Except for "The Distand Sound of Engines, which is arguably a little Hemingwayesque masterpiece.) If you can find BLOOD AND BURNING, a collection from the latter 1970s, I'd say that book has his most achieved stories (which are mostly from the 1960s and '70s). I'm thinking particularly of stories like "Be Merry" and "For Love" and "Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night." IMO, there's a lineage of (fairly dark) SF that runs from the short fiction of C.M. Kornbluth in the 1950s to those of James Tiptree in the 1970s, and Budrys -- in stories like "For Love" -- seems to me the missing link between those two writers. For sure this is a very solid debut collection. You can really feel that each piece is revised and reworked until is shines - subtly, but shines. Blood and Burning was on my list of Budrys' works to read, now it will probably be read sooner than later as I try to devote the remainder of 2016 to writers deserving greater recognition. Interesting that you should describe Budrys' stories as dark, or at least 'fairly dark.' :) For certain he is more in tune with writers like Orwell or Huxley, writers who took a more realistic (or what some might think of as pessimistic) view toward humanity's capabilities - the vices as much as the virtues. I'm on the realist side myself, which means Budrys' delicately cautionary tales strike a real chord. Whether or not Budrys forms a waypoint on the journey to Tiptree Jr., however, is something I'm not convinced of. I put a lot of Tiptree Jr.'s work, for as great as it is, beyond dark, with one toe or foot in paranoid land. In the stories of his I've read, Budrys covers a wide gamut of territory, from memory to politics, economics to religion, etc. Each story seems to be a piece unto itself. With Tiptree Jr., however, I get the impression that each story, for as unique as it may be, is extracted from a much smaller pool of ideas. There is a certain fear of men, sex as a tool for oppression, of the imminence of mortality, of cultural domination - these are the common threads to her work, appearing time and again. With Budrys, I get the feeling the only real common thread to his stories is a strong underlying sense of humanism, and the need to protect it in the face of interests which would seek to undermine it. But do correct me if I'm wrong. I've read enough of Tiptree Jr. and Budrys to form an initial impression, but perhaps not enough to make a fully qualified statement. The Unexpected Dimension by Algis Budrys. From and To can't be the same language. That page is already in . Something went wrong. Check the webpage URL and try again. Sorry, that page did not respond in a timely manner. Sorry, that page doesn't exist or is preventing translations. Sorry, that page doesn't exist or is preventing translations. Sorry, that page doesn't exist or is preventing translations. Something went wrong, please try again. Try using the Translator for the Microsoft Edge extension instead. The Unexpected Dimension by Algis Budrys. The 1960 collection The Unexpected Dimension contains seven stories by Algis Budrys. We read three in our last installment of MPorcius Fiction Log, and a fourth, "First to Serve," last year when we read a bunch of robot stories by important SF writers. So today let's finish up the collection by reading the three remaining tales. "The Burning World" (1957) This one has a title that sounds like it belongs on a J. G. Ballard novel, but it feels like it's aimed at the kind of techno-optimist libertarian who listens to Kmele Foster and Katherine Mangu-Ward podcasts while he's folding the laundry and washing the dishes (I know a guy like that!) because it depicts a post-scarcity anarchist society! Some decades ago the merciless totalitarian regime headed by a cult-of-personality dictator named Bausch that ruled an unspecified mountainous region of Europe was overthrown when a rebel scientist discovered a simple means of tapping energy from some other dimension. This new source of energy not only armed revolutionaries with powerful ray guns but made armies and taxmen and police obsolete by enabling everyone to easily provide food and electricity for himself and his family. Josef Kimmensen was a leader of the movement that overthrew the old regime. After winning the succession war that followed the revolution, he became president of the new small-government polity, known as the League. Now he is an old sick man, practically at death's door. Who will take his position as head of the last lingering vestiges of government and defend this free society based on individual responsibility and voluntary exchange? And what will happen to his irresponsible twenty-something daughter, Susanne? Kimmensen sees the solution to both problems in Jem Bendix, his young protege. Kimmensen can die in peace if he knows Bendix is married to his daughter and firmly ensconced as head of the bare bones League administration. But poor Kimmensen, in his rapidly fading twilight years, has to face some bad news: not only is some young jackass named Anse Messerschmidt talking up the need for a stronger government with a military force that can confront some alleged threat from the northwest, but said jackass is dating Susanne! Budrys melds here the sort of ideas about individualism and freedom you see in some of the work of A. E. van Vogt (I'm thinking of "The Weapon Shop") and Robert Heinlein (I'm thinking of The Moon is a Harsh Mistress , The Rolling Stones and Beyond This Horizon ) with a human story about a guy who is disappointed in his child specifically and the younger generation in general. We get a brief history of Kimmensen's libertarian League and description of how it operates, interspersed with the plot, which follows the dying Kimmensen's plan to defuse pro-government activist Messerschmidt's plays for Susanne and for power--Kimmensen calls an election and Jem Bendix runs for president against Messerschmidt. But Messerschmidt turns out to be a talented orator and a smooth political operator who has the ear of the young people who were born too late to remember the horrors of big government. How far will Kimmensen and Bendix go, what kind of moral compromises will they make, to preserve the League? When push comes to shove, how different really are Bausch, Kimmensen and Messerschmidt, all of them men with a vision for society and the determination and intelligence to pursue it? To what extent do such men drive history and society, and to what extent are they the product of historical and social forces? A somewhat sad and cynical piece, not bad. "The Burning World" first appeared in Infinity Science Fiction , marketed as an "Exciting Long Novelet." It was translated into French and appeared along with a 1957 story by Walter M. Miller Jr. in the 1984 volume Etoile Double #10 . "Go and Behold Them" (1958) This story first appeared with the title "The End of Winter" in Venture Science Fiction under a pseudonym, maybe because Budrys's The Falling Torch was appearing as the serial in that same issue. It would reappear in the 1990s periodical Pirate Writings , what isfdb calls a "quarterly semi- prozine." It is a future of FTL drives and deep space exploration. Our narrator, Harry Becker, works for "the Institute," a body that sends out two person- teams of scientists in small space ships to collect data on sectors of space measured in the hundreds of cubic light years. Most of these two- member teams consist of married couples, and the narrator describes one such couple, a particularly skilled and likable pair, Lew and Norah Harvey. The Harveys' ship crashed and our narrator is a member of the team that finds the wreck on an odd alien artifact, a metal sphere a thousand miles in diameter that is hurtling through space and is covered in sinister, disturbing rust-colored shapes. This is an emotional story. Becker is one of the members of the Institute who is not in a couple; he was in love with Norah, and finding her dead is a painful blow. Norah's last recordings indicate more clearly what was only dimly hinted at before, that she loved Lew, but that there was some kind of trouble between them. Apparently their marriage was sexless; I guess Norah was sterile and/or frigid (are we supposed to say "frigid" anymore?) or something like that. Lew died before Norah, and she buried her husband under a cairn of metal pieces. Harvey buries Norah in turn, and the hideous, threatening metal forms on the surface of the artificial planet change, become less unsettling, even beautiful. The narrator surmises that the alien sphere was a machine built to generate and support life, a machine that had failed aeons in the past, but which reactivated itself after receiving new insights about life from Lew's dead body. As Lew was bitter, the shapes of the mechanism's attempts at creating life were ugly and scary, but the subsequent burial of the kind and generous Norah has given the machine the knowledge it needed to create forms of beauty. The narrator surmises that if humans ever encounter the artifact again they will meet creatures who are, essentially, Norah and Lew's children, I suppose the children they couldn't have while alive because of Norah's unfortunate condition. Good; the descriptions of the strange alien machine are vivid and evocative, and all the human stuff about frustrating sexual relationships and other emotionally charged experiences (for example, the narrator believes the beings who created the sphere, and perhaps those beings the sphere will finally engender, will be so advanced as to present an existential threat to the human race) is also effective. "The Executioner" (1956) "The Executioner" first appeared in John W. Campbell, Jr.'s Astounding , and would be selected by famous British men-of-letters Kingsley Amis and Robert Conquest for their 1961 SF anthology Spectrum and by Barry Malzberg and Bill Pronzini for their anthology of SF crime stories, Dark Sins, Dark Dreams . With all these important editors behind it, it must be good! The place: New York State, now an independent country! The time: A bizarre aristocratic future in which powerful families, their superior genetic material protected by eugenics laws that control who can produce children with whom, dominate society and politics. This rigid control of the gene pool and the direction of society was deemed necessary centuries ago in order to prevent another cataclysm like that one back in the 21st century! This utilitarian reason for this polity's illiberal and inegalitarian structure is cloaked in the fiction that it was set up by a messiah/god figure, the Messire, who continues to watch over and direct every human action. Justice in this classbound society is meted out by men in tights, wigs, and lace, men who act as judge, jury and executioner! Executions have an element of trial by combat to them, though the odds are strongly stacked in the judge's favor. We observe as Chief Justice Samson Ezra Joyce presides over the trial of Clarissa Jones (are these names references to modernists Ezra Pound and James Joyce and 18th-century novelists Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding?), a plebeian who is accused of addressing a member of a family (her lover!) by first name in public. Joyce appears to be one of the few aristocrats to actually believe in all this Messire business; everything that happens, he feels, is a reflection of the Messire's will--Joyce thinks he is just doing the Messire's work and that his decisions in court, and the outcomes of his executions, are an expression of the judgement of the Messire, not a product of his own will and ability. When something goes wrong at the trial of Jones, a stricken Joyce interprets it is a message from the Messire indicating that he, Joyce, should resign his post. As a rebellion against the New York social order erupts and Joyce's less pious colleagues abandon all pretense in their scramble to quell the uprising, we readers see beyond the veil and recognize the cynical scam that is New York government and religion, but Joyce is driven to a final desperate act of faith in the Messire, an act that threatens the status quo and public order. "The Executioner" isn't bad, but, to me, feels a little melodramatic and overwrought, too long and too extravagant; Budrys is still talking our ears off long after we have gotten the point. I think the intellectual issues addressed here are less interesting than those discussed in "The Burning World;" nobody today believes in trial by ordeal or trial by combat and very few would advocate a rigidly stratified society or strict eugenics laws, but debates over how much power the government should have and the extent of individuals' right to self defense are alive and well. The human relationships and emotional crises described here in "The Executioner" are less compelling and affecting than those Budrys wrote about in "Go and Behold Them." Despite its popularity with editors, this is not Budrys's best work in this collection. The Unexpected Dimension is a quite good collection, definitely worth the classic SF fan's time. V Budrys. Pyramid #G416. Minor edge wear and cover creasing. 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall. hx2. Pyramid Books, New York, 1959. Paperback. Condition: Very Good +. Engle, Robert V. (cover) (illustrator). First printing. ASTOUNDING Science Fiction: October, Oct. 1956 ("The Naked Sun") Astounding (Isaac Asimov; Algis Budrys; Randall Garrett & Robert Silverberg; John Hunton; Theodore L. Thomas; V. A. Eulach) Published by Street & Smith, NY (1956) Used - Softcover Condition: Good to Very Good- Quantity available: 1. Vol. LVIII, No. 2. Edited by John W. Campbell, Jr. Cover art by van Dongen for "The Naked Sun" (pt. 1 of 3) by Isaac Asimov. Includes "Death March" (novelette) by Algis Budrys; "Sound Decision" (novelette) by Randall Garrett & Robert Silverberg; "What They're Up Against" by John Hunton; "Ceramic Incident" by Theodore L. Thomas. Article: "Those Impossible Autotrophic Men" by V. A. Eulach. Readers' Departments: "The Editor's Page: Coexistence"; "The Analytical laboratory"; "In Times to Come"; "Brass Tacks"; "The Reference Library" by P. Schuyler Miller. Illustrated by Freas and van Dongen. Glued inside hinges; tears at spien ends; creasing. Street & Smith, NY, 1956. SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Good to Very Good-. ASTOUNDING Science Fiction: October, Oct. 1956 ("The Naked Sun") Astounding (Isaac Asimov; Algis Budrys; Randall Garrett & Robert Silverberg; John Hunton; Theodore L. Thomas; V. A. Eulach) Published by Street & Smith, NY (1956) Used - Softcover Condition: Very Good. Quantity available: 1. Vol. LVIII, No. 2. Edited by John W. Campbell, Jr. Cover art by van Dongen for "The Naked Sun" (pt. 1 of 3) by Isaac Asimov. Includes "Death March" (novelette) by Algis Budrys; "Sound Decision" (novelette) by Randall Garrett & Robert Silverberg; "What They're Up Against" by John Hunton; "Ceramic Incident" by Theodore L. Thomas. Article: "Those Impossible Autotrophic Men" by V. A. Eulach. Readers' Departments: "The Editor's Page: Coexistence"; "The Analytical laboratory"; "In Times to Come"; "Brass Tacks"; "The Reference Library" by P. Schuyler Miller. Illustrated by Freas and van Dongen. Tape at upper spine; a little creasing. Street & Smith, NY, 1956. SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good. ASTOUNDING Science Fiction: October, Oct. 1956 ("The Naked Sun") Astounding (Isaac Asimov; Algis Budrys; Randall Garrett & Robert Silverberg; John Hunton; Theodore L. Thomas; V. A. Eulach) Published by Street & Smith, NY (1956) Used - Softcover Condition: Very Good. Quantity available: 1. Vol. LVIII, No. 2. Edited by John W. Campbell, Jr. Cover art by van Dongen for "The Naked Sun" (pt. 1 of 3) by Isaac Asimov. Includes "Death March" (novelette) by Algis Budrys; "Sound Decision" (novelette) by Randall Garrett & Robert Silverberg; "What They're Up Against" by John Hunton; "Ceramic Incident" by Theodore L. Thomas. Article: "Those Impossible Autotrophic Men" by V. A. Eulach. Readers' Departments: "The Editor's Page: Coexistence"; "The Analytical laboratory"; "In Times to Come"; "Brass Tacks"; "The Reference Library" by P. Schuyler Miller. Illustrated by Freas and van Dongen. Owner's stamp on cover. Street & Smith, NY, 1956. SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good. ASTOUNDING Science Fiction: October, Oct. 1956 ("The Naked Sun") Astounding (Isaac Asimov; Algis Budrys; Randall Garrett & Robert Silverberg; John Hunton; Theodore L. Thomas; V. A. Eulach) Published by Street & Smith, NY (1956) Used - Softcover Condition: Very Good. Quantity available: 1. Vol. LVIII, No. 2. Edited by John W. Campbell, Jr. Cover art by van Dongen for "The Naked Sun" (pt. 1 of 3) by Isaac Asimov. Includes "Death March" (novelette) by Algis Budrys; "Sound Decision" (novelette) by Randall Garrett & Robert Silverberg; "What They're Up Against" by John Hunton; "Ceramic Incident" by Theodore L. Thomas. Article: "Those Impossible Autotrophic Men" by V. A. Eulach. Readers' Departments: "The Editor's Page: Coexistence"; "The Analytical laboratory"; "In Times to Come"; "Brass Tacks"; "The Reference Library" by P. Schuyler Miller. Illustrated by Freas and van Dongen. Creasing; minor tears at spine ends; tanning. Street & Smith, NY, 1956. SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good. ASTOUNDING Science Fiction: October, Oct. 1956 ("The Naked Sun") Astounding (Isaac Asimov; Algis Budrys; Randall Garrett & Robert Silverberg; John Hunton; Theodore L. Thomas; V. A. Eulach) Published by Street & Smith, NY (1956) Used - Softcover Condition: Very Good. Quantity available: 1. Vol. LVIII, No. 2. Edited by John W. Campbell, Jr. Cover art by van Dongen for "The Naked Sun" (pt. 1 of 3) by Isaac Asimov. Includes "Death March" (novelette) by Algis Budrys; "Sound Decision" (novelette) by Randall Garrett & Robert Silverberg; "What They're Up Against" by John Hunton; "Ceramic Incident" by Theodore L. Thomas. Article: "Those Impossible Autotrophic Men" by V. A. Eulach. Readers' Departments: "The Editor's Page: Coexistence"; "The Analytical laboratory"; "In Times to Come"; "Brass Tacks"; "The Reference Library" by P. Schuyler Miller. Illustrated by Freas and van Dongen. Spine a bit rolled with hinge creasing. Street & Smith, NY, 1956. SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good. ASTOUNDING Science Fiction: October, Oct. 1956 ("The Naked Sun") Astounding (Isaac Asimov; Algis Budrys; Randall Garrett & Robert Silverberg; John Hunton; Theodore L. Thomas; V. A. Eulach) Published by Street & Smith, NY (1956) Used - Softcover Condition: Very Good+ Quantity available: 1. Vol. LVIII, No. 2. Edited by John W. Campbell, Jr. Cover art by van Dongen for "The Naked Sun" (pt. 1 of 3) by Isaac Asimov. Includes "Death March" (novelette) by Algis Budrys; "Sound Decision" (novelette) by Randall Garrett & Robert Silverberg; "What They're Up Against" by John Hunton; "Ceramic Incident" by Theodore L. Thomas. Article: "Those Impossible Autotrophic Men" by V. A. Eulach. Readers' Departments: "The Editor's Page: Coexistence"; "The Analytical laboratory"; "In Times to Come"; "Brass Tacks"; "The Reference Library" by P. Schuyler Miller. Illustrated by Freas and van Dongen. Edgewear; creasing; minor tears at spine ends; tanning. Street & Smith, NY, 1956. SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Very Good+. Rare Science Fiction. Howard, Ivan (editor): L. Sprague de Camp / Milton Lesser / Algys Budrys / Charles V. de Vet / Allice Bullock / Robert Silverberg / Jim Harmon / M.C. Pease. Published by New York: Belmont Book # L92-557 1st Edition (1963) Used - Softcover Condition: Very Good+ Quantity available: 1. ------paperback. A 173-page first edition paperback original science fiction anthology. Cover creases, small chip to spine top, some edgewear, price stamp on page block bottom edge, a VG+ copy. New York: Belmont Book # L92-557 1st Edition, 1963. Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. PLANET Stories: Spring 1955. Planet (Stanley Mullen; Alan E. Nourse; Algis Budrys; V. E. Thiessen; A. L. Haley; Robert E. Gilbert) Published by Love Romances, NY (1955) Used - Softcover Condition: Good+ to Very Good- Quantity available: 1. Vol. 6, No. 10. Pulp magazine. Edited by Jack O'Sullivan. Cover art by Freas for "Cage of a Thousand Wings" by Algis Budrys. Includes "Mirage for Planet X" by Stanley Mullen; "The Brain Sinner" by Alan E. Nourse; "The Beast-Jewel of Mars" by V. E. Thiessen; "Hagerty's Enzymes" by A. L. Haley; "The Space Between" by Robert E. Gilbert. Illustrated by Emsh, Eberle, and others. Letters from A. J. Budrys, Bill Tuning, Bob Hoskins, and more. Loss at upper front spine corner and a little at head; Dealer's marks; tears at spine ends; tanning; creasing; minor soiling; standard tears and small losses at edges; marks on contents page. Love Romances, NY, 1955. SingleIssueMagazine. Condition: Good+ to Very Good-. SCIENCE FICTION STORIES MAY 1955 VOLUME 5 NUMBER 6. Science Fiction Stories\) \[Robert W. Lowndes, editor\] \[Algis Budrys, D. A. Jourdan, Charles V. De Vet, Ward Moore, Irving Cox Jr, M. C. Pease, Barbara Constant\] \[cover by Ed \"EMSH\" Emshwiller\] Published by Columbia Publications Inc, New York (1955) Used - Softcover Condition: Fair. Quantity available: 1. New York: Columbia Publications Inc. New York: Fair. 1955. First Edition. First edition. Digest sized magazine. Pictorial wrappers [about 5.25" x 7.5"], 130 pages, illustrated. Includes "Last Stand" by Lagis Budrys, "Protective Camoflage" by Charles V. De Vet, "In Working Order" by Ward Moore, etc. Fair only copy [spine significantly damaged, cover creasing with some edgewear, some curving/waviness to the body of the issue, Text paper tanning. A reading copy. ebbx . Fair. Paperback. y First Edition. 1st Printing. 1955. Columbia Publications Inc, New York, 1955. Paperback. Condition: Fair. y First Edition. RARE SCIENCE FICTION. Howard, Ivan (editor) (L Sprague de Camp; Milton Lesser; Algis Budrys; Charles V. De Vet; Alice Bullock; Robert Silverberg; Jim Harmon; M. C. Pease) Published by Belmont Books, New York (1963) Used - Softcover Condition: Very Good. Quantity available: 1. 173 pp. Belmont Book L92557. Edge and corner wear with minor creasing on the front hinge and spine; no interior markings. This anthology contains: Let's Have Fun by L. Sprague de Camp; Do it Yourself by Milton Lesser; In Human Hands by Algis Budrys; Protective Camouflage by Charles V. De Vet; Asylum by Alice Bullock; Quick Freeze by Robert Silverberg; Luck Inc. by Jim Harmon; and Ripeness by M. C. Pease. Belmont Books, New York, 1963. Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Book. Budrys Algis. Published by Pyramid Books, # G339 (1958) Used - Softcover Condition: Good. Quantity available: 1. Mass Market paperback in good condition. Scuffing & edgewear, a crease to the front spine hinge and on the spine. The interior text is unmarked, this is a wellbound and squared copy. "Martino was a very important scientist, working on something called the K-88. But the K-88 exploded in his face, and he was dragged across the Soviet border. There he stayed for months. When they finally gave him back, the Soviets had given him a metal arm.and an expressionless metal skull. So how could Allied Security be sure he actually was Martino ." ; Cover Art; 12mo 7" - 7�" tall; 157 pages. Pyramid Books, # G339, 1958. Mass Market paperback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Illustrated by Robert V. Engel (illustrator). Budrys, Algis. Published by Pyramid, New York (1958) Used - Softcover Condition: Very Good. Quantity available: 1. -----#591, slight creases top right corner, no names or store stamps, tight clean and square, printed in Canada. Any image diredtly beside this listing is the actual book and not a stock photo!. Pyramid, New York, 1958. Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Engel, Robert V. (illustrator). First Canadian Edition. Rare Science Fiction (Let's Have Fun; Do It Yourself; In Human Hands; Protective Camouflage; Asylum; Quick Freeze; Luck, Inc; Ripeness) Howard, Ivan (ed) (cover art by Robert Maguire) (L. Sprague De Camp; Milton Lesser; Algis Budrys; Charles V. De Vet; Alice Bullock; Robert Silverberg; Jim Harmon; M.C. Pease) Published by New York: Belmont Books 92-557 January 1963 First Belmont Printing Paperback Original (1963)