Biography:
(1939- ). American "new wave"
SF writer and critic, author of such works of fiction as Beyond Apollo
(1972) and Tactics of Conquest (1974) and criticism (sometimes in
the form of fiction) of SF: Hall of the Planets (1971), Herovit's
World (1973), Galaxies (1975), Engines of the Night: Science
Fiction of the Eighties (198x).
Brief biography from The
Norton Book of Science Fiction, ed. by Ursula K. LeGuin & Brian
Attebery
Barry N. Malzberg,
born in 1939, began publishing in 1968 under the pen name K. M. O'Donnell.
He has written more than twenty science fiction novels, including Beyond
Apollo (1972), which won the John W. Campbell Award, and is a prolific
short-story writer. The Engines of the Night (1982) is his
collection of critical writings on science fiction. He lives in Teaneck,
New Jersey. |