Book description
From 1965 until his death, Algis Budrys was a leading critic of modern
speculative fiction; insightful, eclectic, and notoriously uninhibited.
Benchmarks collects the material that started it - all the Galaxy
Bookshelf book-review columns Budrys created for the now-vanished Galaxy
Magazine Algis Budrys (1931-2008) Born in East Prussia in 1931, Budrys
and his family were sent to the United States when he was just five.
After studying at the University of Miami and Columbia University,
Budrys turned his hand to both writing and publishing science fiction.
Over the years he worked as an editor, manager and reviewer for various
publishing houses, while maintaining an impressive output of fiction and
editing his own magazine, Tomorrow Speculative Fiction. He was
shortlisted for numerous awards, including the Hugo and the Nebula, for
his fiction and critical non-fiction. He died in 2008.
