The Recursive Science Fiction of Barry N. Malzberg. Contains all the author's stories written about science fiction. Cover illustration by Merle Insinga.
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The Passage of the Light: The Recursive Science Fiction of Barry N. Malzberg contains all the Barry Malzberg stories about science fiction including Herovit's World, A Galaxy Called Rome, Prose Bowl (with Bill Pronzini), and ten more. Barry Malzberg is an award winning author of imagination and versatility who impact on contemporary science fiction and science fiction authors is significant and pervasive. Highly recommended reading. -- Midwest Book Review
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This is a volume in the NESFA's Choice series. The objective of this series is to publish the "classic" works of neglected sf authors, and to keep these works in
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Worth reading for Herovitt's World alone...,
By rickzz "rickzz" (New Jersey) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Passage of the Light: The Recursive Science Fiction of Barry N. Malzberg (Paperback)
I bought this recently because it includes the short novel, "Herovitt's World"(1973), which is a neglected classic-basically, it's a devastatingly funny portrait of a hack SF writer, who's on the verge of a psychological collapse. I read that book about a decade ago, and I'm glad to say that it holds up upon re-reading.
The other stories in "Passage of the Light" are also quite good albeit not as great. (Basically, this is an anthology of Malzberg's stories which are about SF and or SF writing.) If you only know Malzberg from such depressing and bewildering novels like "Beyond Apollo", then give this a try, since all of the stories are highly entertaining and funny and sometimes even brillant. The only downside of this collection is that it doesn't include "Galaxies", which is probably Malzberg's best novel after H.W. (although it does include the short story which was the basis for G...)
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