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". Sentry", a reconfigured Anglification of his Lithuanian name. Some of his science fiction in the 1950s was published under the pen name "John A. Beginning in 1952 Budrys worked as editor and manager for such science fiction publishers as Gnome Press and Galaxy Science Fiction. His first published science fiction story was The High Purpose, which appeared in Astounding Science Fiction in 1952. During most of his adult life, he held a captain's commission in the Free Lithuanian Army.īudrys was educated at the University of Miami, and later at Columbia University in New York. His family was sent to the United States by the Lithuanian government in 1936 when Budrys was 5 years old.
He was the son of the consul general of the Lithuanian government, (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). Sentry, William Scarff, Paul Janvier, and Sam & Janet Argo.Ĭalled "AJ" by friends, Budrys was born Algirdas Jonas Budrys in Königsberg in East Prussia. He was also known under the pen names Frank Mason, Alger Rome, John A. Edward Hawks, a scientific murderer, whose greatest mission was rebirth.Īlgis Budrys was a Lithuanian-American science fiction author, editor, and critic.
It was a thing that devoured people that killed them again & again in torturous, unfathomable ways.Įarthbound are the only two men who could probe the thing: Al Barker, a reckless thrill-seeker, whose loving mistress was death, & Dr. Now humans had actually reached the Moon, & on it the explorers found a structure, a formation so terrible & incomprehensible that it couldn't even be described in human terms. Goddesses & Gibson Girls have tripped the light fantastic of her beams while sonneteers & scientists have scanned her changing phases. Few carry the horror of Budrys' unsettling story.ĭuring all recorded history, the Moon has hovered above our heads, a timeless symbol for lovers' ecstasy. A novella-length version of the story was included in the anthology The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume 2, edited by Ben Bova.īefore 1969, every science fiction writer wrote his or her own version of the first Moon landing. It was a 1961 Hugo Award nominee, losing to Walter M.
Rogue Moon is a short sf novel by Algis Budrys, published in 1960.
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