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From: Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever@dslextreme.com>
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Subject: Re: RIP: Barry N. Malzberg
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 16:35:18 -0800
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On 12/21/24 11:00, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> In article <slrnvmdk86.2m42.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>,
> Christian Weisgerber  <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:
>> Wikipedia:
>>   Barry Nathaniel Malzberg (July 24, 1939 – December 19, 2024) was
>>   an American writer and editor, most often of science fiction and
>>   fantasy.
>>
>> I recognize the name, but I don't recall ever reading anything by
>> him.
>>
> 
> Very New Wave.  What I read of his I really did not like.  In
> particular his "novel" _Galaxies_ was packaged (perhaps not by him)
> as a space adventure when in fact it was a meta-novel set of notes
> about writing a space adventure.  14 year old me was very non-plussed.
> 
> None of which is a personal criticism.  I'm sure he was a nice guy,
> and I enjoyed his defense of A. E. Van Vogt.
> 
> RIP

	I remember reading stories under his byline years ago when i was
much younger. I recognised the name from those readings quite a while
back.
	bliss