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From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>)
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Subject: Re: RIP: Barry N. Malzberg
Date: 21 Dec 2024 19:00:55 GMT
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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
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