Barry N. Malzberg

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  • Bibliography:
    59 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1972
  • Latest Book:
    November 2024
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Book List in Order: 59 titles

  • Beyond Apollo

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    Winner of the first John W. Campbell Memorial Award. “A mind-bending read . . . certainly entertaining, often very funny and very thought-provoking.” -- Medium   A two-man mission to Venus fails and is aborted; when it returns, the Captain ...

  • On Ice

  • Phase IV

    Triumphant from a fifteen thousand year battle in space, a bolt of energy reached the third planet of a Class B star. A new life force spawned seven grey towers in the Arizona desert. Now, from out of their dark mysteries marches a new breed of kill...

  • Destruction Temple

  • Herovits World

  • On Planet Alien

  • The Sodom and Gomorrah Business

    Death and Disorder 104.Institute courses told a grim story about the Network - that savage world beyond the closely guarded Institute gates. But they wanted to see for themselves. They had to know.Were they really females there? Would their traini...

  • The Gamesman

    A staggering vision of Earth in the not-so-distant future. . .In a controlled and mechanical world, the only reality is fear and killing boredom. The only escape from mind-blowing monotony is the Game, with predictable rules of stimulus and response....

  • The Last Transaction

    The Last Transaction is a deep and fascinating glimpse into the memories, inner compulsions, torments, triumphs, and events in the life of a President of the United States in a world gone mad, from 1980 to 1985. Even more, it is a perceptive vision ...



  • Chorale

    • / General Fiction
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    Kemper had the answer; Reuter had the problem. Kemper had figured it all out by the twenty-second century; he was a man of temporal science. The past did not exist. The past upon which the present was based had no credence unless it could be recons...

  • Dark Sins, Dark Dreams

  • The Man Who Loved The Midnight Lady

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  • The Cross of Fire

    In the far future, it has become possible in advanced psychotherapy for a man to be given dreams as vivid as reality in which he may play any part he chooses. If that man were inclined to see his life as a struggle between good and evil, and if he we...

  • The Engines of the Night

    Aspiring science fiction writers, take heed! If you want to understand where the field has been and where it's going -- if you want a career -- you need this book. In The Engines of the Night, Malzberg reviews his own ambivalent relationship with sci...

  • The Science Fiction of Kris Neville

  • The Remaking of Sigmund Freud

    O Brave New World . . .When man roamed freely among the planets and away to the stars, spacecraft had to carry the best advisers with them, for outside help was usually too far off to do any good in emergencies.And so the android simulacrum was born ...

  • Underlay

    Barry N. Malzberg’s comic masterpiece back in print at last! Harry the Flat is dead and buried in the backstretch of Aqueduct Raceway. Our hero, for reasons many and varied, must dig him up, or suffer undue stress at the hands of the Mob. It’s go...

  • Galaxies

    Fortieth-Century Space Probe!The diabolically clever Bureau had superbly trained their space pilot, beautiful Lena Thomas.Nothing could go wrong in an age where science had conquered the universe. In one of their fifteen faster-than-light ships, Len...

  • Nordic Blue

    in Dick Tracy: The Secret Files

    CRIMESTOPPERS' CASEBOOK: 1944 -- Everyone knew the beautiful Hollywood starlet's death was suicide. Everyone but a hack screen- writer -- and DICK TRACY... 1955 -- A new music called rock'n'roll is sweeping the country -- but someone wants one...



  • Folly for Three

    in A Whisper of Blood

    ROBERT SILVERBERG uncovers the dark side of sunny suburbia when a stranger extracts the neuroses of an unsuspecting town.... SUZY McKEE CHARNAS lures a reluctant vampire to play a game with death.... JONATHAN CARROLL takes a dream vacation -- a...

  • The Passage of the Light

  • The Passage of the Light: The Recursive Science Fiction of Barry

  • In the Stone House

    In an "Alternate Kennedys" history where Joe Kennedy lives to become president, things go horribly wrong as the rivalry between ex-president Joe and his now-president brother Jack turns violent. Hugo Award Nominee...

  • Shiva and Other Stories

    Twenty-two tales by a mythologist for the new millennium, Shiva and Other Stories brings together some of Malzberg's finest work from the 80s and the 90s, including many stories featured in major Year's Best anthologies. From pragmatists like Huey "K...

  • On a Planet Alien

    Folsom's Planet - An Alien land yet so familiar.If the mission were a success, Folsom's planet would bear his name for eternity. The barbarians would be civilized; the planet would join the Federation; the Federation's integrity would be preserved.B...

  • The Best Time Travel Stories of All Time

    Fourteen classic time travel stories, selected by award-winning author Barry N. Malzberg. The book features THE BATTLE OF LONG ISLAND by Nancy Kress, THE MAN WHO CAME EARLY by Poul Anderson, A LITTLE SOMETHING FOR US TEMPUNAUTS by Philip K. Dick, 3 R...

  • The Day of the Burning

    It was a sultry summer day in 1981, and the 3 billion or so inhabitants of the world went about their daily routine unaware that, possibly, the fate of the human race lay in the shaking hands of one George Mercer, an insignificant and slightly neurot...

  • The Destruction of the Temple

    The year is 2016, and President Kennedy is being murdered - again and again and again.The director has come to the charred ruins of New York to re-enact a mad dream from the past - the assassination of President Kennedy. As actors, he has the primiti...

  • Dwellers of the Deep

    What! A science fiction novel about science fiction fans? And why not?Or - like it says in this novel:"Do you really think that a group of science fiction fans could save this planet? Could understand this situation to save it?""I most certainly d...



  • The Empty People

    First there was Della, the woman who wanted . . . love? She did not - could not - know, for where love should have been was emptiness.Then came the Poet, who wanted only to please, but did not know how. His every effort was rejected - but he could no...

  • The Falling Astronauts

    The space programme has finally lost its novelty, and a jaded public hardly notices another moon launch. Skilful PR men preserve the illusion that the missions have become routine.But astronaut Richard Martin can tell a different story. Of panic in d...

  • Gather in the Hall of the Planets

    Science fiction writer Sanford Kvass has a problem. Three problems, actually. He suffering from terrible writer's block and owes his agent a large sum of money. The last thing he needs is the approaching distraction of the World Science Fiction Conve...

  • Guernica Night

    Who can resist the Final Trip?Earth in the twenty-third century is adorned with corpses as suicides ravage a dehumanised population, compelled to live, or merely exist, in segregated complexes. Despite the technical wizardry of the Church of the Epip...

  • In the Enclosure

    Escape is all that Quir thinks about. Escape from the enclosure on Earth. Escape from the endless interrogations. Quir's memories have been burned out; all he knows is that he must give scientific data to humans whenever they ask for it....

  • The Men Inside

    Earth's Elite - or its outcasts?For a selected, genetically-fitted few among the teeming millions of the twenty-first century, to become a Messenger for the Hulm Institute is to escape the prison that is life, that is earth.A Messenger is Noble!A Mes...

  • Revelations

    Marvin Martin, the show's host, is angry. Night after night he strips his guests of their pitiful pretensions, their commonplace hypocrisies - but how long has it been since he uncovered a genuine revelation?Hurwitz, who selects Martin's victims, is...

  • Scop

    Bitterly, Bitterly, Scop is a failure!Scop is doing his job . . .He has spoken to President Kennedy, warning him to leave Dallas immediately . . . spoken to Zapruder, asking him not to take pictures . . . pleaded with Elaine Kozciouskos, begging her ...

  • Universe Day

    The Outer limit...When man's ambition expanded to fill the solar system, his technology expanded to take him as far as he wanted to go. Technology went on expanding. So did man's ambitions. But there was a danger only dimly suspected, and only poorly...

  • Everything Happened to Susan



  • The Horizontal Woman

    Elizabeth Moore, young, fresh from a posh Ivy League college, has a burning desire to help her welfare clients. The Ultimate Social Worker, she had her own ideas about how to re-acculturate the male members of her case load. But how was she to get...

  • The Spread

    The Spread , a glossy porno weekly studded with full-page photographs, was a success from the very first issue. Every week a quarter of a million copies hit the newsstands and were snapped up by eager readers. But behind the scenes, in the New York o...

  • Herovit's World

    Jonathan Herovit is a science fiction writer in a state of deep personal and professional crisis. Whilst struggling to deal with his wife's post-partum depression, his own alcoholism and a long-overdue novel that he has no motivation to write, the ps...

  • The Very Best of Barry N. Malzberg

    For nearly half a century, Barry N. Malzberg has been stretching the boundaries of the science fiction and fantasy genres to tell truly entertaining tales. In a collection of fiction that Malzberg himsel...

  • Conversations

    This is the story of a strange and terrible world of the future. A world where children live without parents and family. There is no sense of the past in this world, no sense of history except in the mind of Lothar. Some say he is crazy; others only ...

  • Overlay

    Earth was a planet of incompetents, but Simmons was the greatest loser of all. It seemed as if the powers of the Universe were concentrated on grinding his small soul into ultimate insignificance, until the aliens came. To them, Simmons was the most ...

  • Screen

  • Lady of a Thousand Sorrows // Confessions of Westchester County

    LADY OF A THOUSAND SORROWS “A thinly-veiled Kennedy saga, told by a Jacqueline Kennedy-Onassis-like character being held against her will in a secluded room and awaiting assassination by her sinister caretakers... sits well alongside other Malzberg...

  • The Spread // Horizontal Woman

    THE SPREADWalter is the New York publisher of a sex magazine called The Spread. He sells about 100,000 copies an issue. This glossy, pornographic weekly provides him a platform to work out his fantasies while fulfilling the dubious needs of his reade...

  • Screen // Cinema

    SCREENMartin Miller works for the welfare department. But his attention to his job is wandering. He isn't sure he can work there anymore. What Martin really wants is to be in the movies. Not as an actor, not quite. He wants to be in the movies. He si...



  • Oracle of the Thousand Hands // In My Parents' Bedroom

  • Fire // Machine

    FIRE Al Coleman comes back from the Vietnam War filled with a rage he doesn't understand, and an impotence born of humiliation and regret. His fiancé rejects him. His supervisor at the sex toy factory where he works sets him up with a large-br...

  • The Man Who Loved the Midnight Lady // In the Stone House

    Barry N. Malzberg has been called outrageous and outraged [Theodore Sturgeon], wildly imaginative, and darkly hilarious [Brian Doherty], and a comic genius [Michael Hurd]. He has written over 70 novels, and has published at least 15 story collections...

  • A Way With All Maidens // A Satyr's Romance

  • Lone Wolf #7

    The 7th and 8th books in Malzberg's vigilante series, The Lone Wolf, originally published by Berkley Books in the early 1970s under the name Mike Barry. Burt Wulff has gone beyond fear, beyond love, even beyond hate. He's simply beyond giving the sli...

  • Ready When You Are and Other Stories

    READY WHEN YOU AREThis remarkable collection highlights the quality, range, and idiosyncratic creativity of Barry N. Malzberg's work both inside and outside of the science fiction genre.Some of these stories could have been published anywhere (and, i...

  • Collaborative Capers

    COLLABORATIVE CAPERSSome writers feel that collaboration requires twice the work for half the reward. Barry N. Malzberg is not one of them.You hold the proof in your hands. In Collaborative Capers, you'll find more than two dozen extraordinary short ...

  • Collecting Myself

    COLLECTING MYSELFBarry N. Malzberg has published more than 500 short stories in a wide range of magazines, books, and best-of-the-year anthologies during the past six decades. Many of those stories have appeared in his assorted collections - but not ...

  • Final War and Other Fantasies / In the Pocket and Other S-F Stories

    FINAL WAR ... IN THE POCKET... 26 science fiction stories written by Barry N. Malzberg in the late 1960s and early 1970s under his pen-name K. M. O'Donnell. Ace Books published the two collections as one half each of an Ace Double, and they became Ma...

  • Tactics of Conquest

    • / General Fiction
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    "You mean we're truly going to play for the fate of the Universe?""Exactly," the Overlord said, "a forty-one game chess match to be broadcast throughout all civilized sectors of your Universe so that everyone can witness it.""But why chess? Why me? W...

Award-Winning Books by Barry N. Malzberg

Beyond Apollo
1973 John W. Campbell Memorial Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Barry N. Malzberg has published 59 books.

Barry N. Malzberg does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Final War and Other Fantasies / In the Pocket and Other S-F Stories, was published in November 2024.

The first book by Barry N. Malzberg, Beyond Apollo, was published in January 1972.

No. Barry N. Malzberg does not write books in series.
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