Algis Budrys

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  • Bibliography:
    38 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1958
  • Latest Book:
    September 2022
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Book List in Order: 38 titles

  • Who?

    • / Science Fiction
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    Set against a backdrop of Cold War paranoia, this futuristic novel about identity and technology is “one of the unrecognized classics of SF” (Locus).   East and West have fused into separate superstates known as the Allied National Governmen...

  • Michaelmas

    • / General Fiction
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    Published less than a decade into the Internet era, this remarkable science fiction novel foreshadows many of the world’s technological advances   One of the world’s wealthiest and most influential men, journalist Laurent Michaelmas lives in...

  • Blood & Burning

    Berkley Books, 1978. Paperback original. Collection of science fiction stories. Introduction by the author, and these tales: Be Merry (1966); Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night (1961); All for Love (1962); A Scraping at the Bones (1975); The Price (1960);...

  • Rogue Moon

    A Hugo Award Finalist: Humanity struggles to understand a killing labyrinth discovered on the Moon in this science fiction adventure about death and rebirth Hugo and Nebula Award"winning author Robert Silverberg credits Rogue Moon with containing ...

  • Falling Torch

    • / Science Fiction
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    Twenty years after Earth is conquered by invaders from space, the exiled US government has a chance to reclaim their lost planet 2513 AD. For the past generation, since Earth was taken over by the Invaders, the US president and his cabinet have live...

  • Hard Landing

    A science fiction adventure told from the point of view of aliens who crash-land on Earth and must assimilate in secret -- until their human cover is blown   Budrys’s final novel opens with the report of a man found electrocuted on suburban t...

  • Entertainment

    This volume presents ten examples of Algis Budrys' shorter fiction highlighting his writing from the middle to late 1950s. These stories include famous ones such as "The End of Summer," "The Burning World," "Silent Brother," and "The Executioner" as ...

  • Some Will Not Die

    • / Science Fiction
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    The plague struck, and ninety percent of Earth's population died. Those who survived tried to maintain some sort of civilization...which meant more killing, as it turned out. But bit by bit, generation by generation, people began to succeed. With occ...

  • Blood On My Jets and Others

    Four stories from a master of Science Fiction. "Algis Budrys is that rarity, an intellectual genre writer" John Clute from The Encyclopedia of Science FictionBlood on My Jets -- Ash had been working for the Earth agency in a covert way for a long t...



  • The Death Machine

    • / Science Fiction
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    The machine--perhaps it was just a machine--had been waiting on the moon for a million years. Finally men came. And the thing began killing them all, hideously. But scientist Edward Hawks could not help sending more....

  • Writers of the Future

    Enter 13 spectacular new worlds of imagination and the fantastic. Discover the new visionaries of imagination in the Writers of the Future. Established in 1983 by L. Ron Hubbard expressly for the aspiring writer, Writers of the Future has become ...

  • Citadel

  • Blood on My Jets

    They were the hired gun-rabble of the System, engaged in the dirtiest, most thankless racket in all the worlds. But Ash Holcomb was doing all right, until the girl walked out of his past with high stakes in her pockets and murder in her eyes!...

  • The Barbarians

    History was repeating itself; there were moats and nobles in Pennsylvania and vassals in Manhattan and the barbarian hordes were overrunning the land. Algis Budrys was the Hugo and Nebula award nominated author of Rogue Moon and Michaelmas....

  • Desire No More

    He had but one ambition, one desire: to pilot the first manned rocket to the moon. And he was prepared as no man had ever prepared himself before.... Algis Budrys was the Hugo and Nebula award nominated author of Rogue Moon and Michaelmas....

  • Five Fantastic Stories

    Collected her are five fantastic stories by Algis Budrys, Frank Herbert, Robert Sheckley, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and Jamie Wild. The Stoker and the Stars When you've had your ears pinned back in a bowknot, it's sometimes hard to remember that an intelli...

  • In Clouds of Glory

    In The Master Key System you will find a twenty four lesson program that, when followed, realizes tremendous results. This is your guide to unleashing the power of the Law of Attraction in your life. You will be amazed at how easily you will change y...

  • Benchmarks Revisited 1983-1986

    The second collection (volume two of three) of Algis Budrys's celebrated review columns for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, covering the years 1983 to 1986. Budrys won a Locus Award for his similar collection Benchmarks: Galaxy Books...

  • Benchmarks Concluded 1987-1993

    The third and final collection of Algis Budrys's celebrated review columns for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, covering the years 1987 to 1993. Budrys won a Locus Award for his similar collection Benchmarks: Galaxy Bookshelf (1985) a...



  • The Rag and Bone Men

    Unfortunate castaway! Marooned far from home -- with nothing to share his loneliness but humans!...

  • Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night

    He was a vendor of dreams, purveying worldsbeyond imagination to others. Yet his doom was this:He could not see what he must learn of his own! Algis Budrys was the Hugo and Nebula award nominated author of Rogue Moon and Michaelmas....

  • Die, Shadow!

    He began as a hero. Eons later and auniverse away, he became instead a god! Algis Budrys was the Hugo and Nebula award nominated author of Rogue Moon and Michaelmas....

  • Seven Classic Science Fiction Stories By Algis Budrys

  • Algis Budrys Super Pack

    Fourteen exciting stories by Hugo and Nebula nominated author Algis Budys, one of science fiction’s most influential authors. More than 250 pages of unforgettable adventure! If you enjoyed this book, you’ll want to search on “Positronic Super P...

  • The Burning World

    In a post-revolution world, League President Kimmensen and his protege Bendix face a new threat - the charismatic and ruthless Messerschmidt. As Messerschmidt gains popularity, Kimmensen clings to his fraying legacy. When Messerschmidt rigs an electi...

  • Between the Dark and the Daylight

    In a future where technology allows people to transfer their memories and personalities into new bodies, a man named Carter sets out to investigate the suspicious death of a rich man named Jordache. Carter takes on Jordache's identity and infiltrates...

  • The Edge of the Sea

    Dan Henry discovered the derelict on the open seas and that meant by law of salvage it belonged to him. But when the previous owners showed up to claim it he was going to have a hard time pressing his claim. Algis Budrys was the Hugo and Nebula award...

  • Never Meet Again

    When a disillusioned quantum physicist activates his invention to escape from totalitarian rule in 1958 Berlin, he plunges headfirst into a nightmare reality where Germany lost the war. Shocked to discover Soviet forces occupying a bombed-out shell o...

  • Star Descending

    Inconspicuous in his half of the room, which was dark, Henry Walters watched his partner fraying down into tatters like a mooring line caught between hull and dock. It was disquieting to see. Algis Budrys was the Hugo and Nebula award nominated auth...



  • Underestimation Jerome Bixby

    Never underestimate the power of a woman, they told him. But when he found the bedraggled waif stowed away on the miserable little ship to Mars, he knew what was waiting for her out there. And he knew she’d underestimated a lot of things. Algis Bu...

  • Underestimation

    Never underestimate the power of a woman, they told him. But when he found the bedraggled waif stowed away on the miserable little ship to Mars, he knew what was waiting for her out there. And he knew she’d underestimated a lot of things. Algis Bud...

  • Firegod

    Some are born to greatness, others achieve the rulership of systems -- but Merssu wanted to be a god. All he needed was a million years and a little luck!...

  • The Barbarians and three more stories

  • Firegod and three more stories

  • Algis Budrys Complete Science Novels - The Barbarians Citadel The Stoker and the Stars Desire No More Riya's Foundling

    • / Science Fiction
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    A Lithuanian-American science fiction author, editor, and critic. He was also known under the pen names Frank Mason, Alger Rome, John A. Sentry, William Scarff, and Paul Janvier. His Cold War science fiction novel Who? was adapted for the screen in 1...

  • Complete Science Fiction

    • / General Fiction
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  • Riya's Foundling

    • / Science Fiction
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    Now, if the animal we know as a cow were to evolve into a creature with near-human intelligence, so that she thought of herself as a "person" ......

  • The Stoker And The Stars

    • / Science Fiction
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    When you’ve had your ears pinned back in a bowknot, it’s sometimes hard to remember that an intelligent people has no respect for a whipped enemy ... but does for a fairly beaten enemy. Algis Budrys was the Hugo and Nebula award nominated author ...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Algis Budrys has published 38 books.

Algis Budrys does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Barbarians and three more stories, was published in September 2022.

The first book by Algis Budrys, Who?, was published in January 1958.

No. Algis Budrys does not write books in series.
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