Books by Algis Budrys

Who?

by Algis Budrys

(61 reviews)

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... See More

Fantastic Stories Presents: Science Fiction Super Pack #2: With linked Table of Contents (Positronic Super Pack Series Book 5)

by H. Beam Piper

(52 reviews)

More than 25 of the greatest Science Fiction stories ever written -- many in eBook form for the very first time. More than four hundred pages of top flight fiction selected by the editors at... See More

Algis Budrys Super Pack (Positronic Super Pack Book 41)

by Algis Budrys

(19 reviews)

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... See More

Five Fantastic Stories

by Frank Herbert

(67 reviews)

Collected here are five fantastic stories by Algis Budrys, Frank Herbert, Robert Sheckley, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., and Jamie Wild. 1) The Stoker and the Stars: When you've had your ears pinned back in a bowknot, it's sometimes... See More

Michaelmas

by Algis Budrys

(30 reviews)

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... See More

Hard Landing

by Algis Budrys

(62 reviews)

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... See More

The Burning World

by Algis Budrys

How far would one man go to protect mankind from tyranny? This thoughtful and suspenseful novel of the far future answers that question. Algis Budrys was the Hugo and Nebula award nominated author of Rogue Moon and... See More

Galaxy Science Fiction Super Pack #2: With linked Table of Contents (Positronic Super Pack Series Book 20)

by Fritz Leiber

(60 reviews)

Edited by H. L. Gold, 'Galaxy Science Fiction' hit the scene in 1950 and quickly became the leading science fiction magazine of its time. 'Galaxy' gave a home to writers that didn't fit into 'Astounding' and 'F&SF,' and... See More

The Furious Future: Stories

by Algis Budrys

(7 reviews)

Nine stories travel through time and space to share insights into the human -- and not so human -- experience inthis gripping science fiction anthology from respected author and critic Algis Budrys Through stories of... See More

Falling Torch

by Algis Budrys

(6 reviews)

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... See More

Seven Classic Science Fiction Stories By Algis Budrys

by Algis Budrys

(1 review)

Seven Classic Science Fiction Stories from the 'Golden Age' by Algis Budris. Featured stories: Riya's Foundling, Desire No More, The Stoker And The Stars, Wall Of Crystal, Eye Of Night, The Rag And Bone Men, The Barbarians... See More

The Edge of the Sea

by Algis Budrys

(2 reviews)

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... See More

Wall of Crystal, Eye of Night

by Algis Budrys

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... See More

Between the Dark and the Daylight

by Algis Budrys

Trapped in a protective underground world made of reinforced concrete they can here their enemies chipping away at their walls day after day, year after year, eventually they will get through, then what happens? Algis Budrys... See More

Never Meet Again

by Algis Budrys

He is from a world where the Germans won World War II she lives in an alternate universe in a Russian occupied Berlin. Is there any escape from tyranny? Algis Budrys was the Hugo and Nebula award nominated author of Rogue... See More

Die, Shadow!

by Algis Budrys

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. See More

Desire No More

by Algis Budrys

(1 review)

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... See More

The Stoker and the Stars

by Algis Budrys

(9 reviews)

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... See More

The Barbarians

by Algis Budrys

(7 reviews)

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... See More

Star Descending

by Algis Budrys

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... See More

Seven Classic Science Fiction Stories By Algis Budrys (Classics To Go)

by Algis Budrys

(1 review)

Seven Classic Science Fiction Stories from the "Golden Age" by Algis Budris. Featured stories: Riya's Foundling, Desire No More, The Stoker And The Stars, Wall Of Crystal, Eye Of Night, The Rag And Bone Men, The Barbarians... See More

Benchmarks

by Algis Budrys

(3 reviews)

From 1965 until his death, Algis Budrys was a leading critic of modern speculative fiction; insightful, eclectic, and notoriously uninhibited. Benchmarks collects the material that started it - all the Galaxy Bookshelf... See More

Man of Earth

by Algis Budrys

His only escape was to become another man! Allen Sibley was a frightened little man - frightened for his life. In the corrupt, swindling world of cutthroat big business in which he was an important and pseudo-respectable... See More

Blood and Burning

by Algis Budrys

(1 review)

Science fiction begins, wrote Algis J. Budrys, where unreality leaves off. In these unforgettable stories Budrys creates an alien but familiar world stripped of the lies of everyday life: a world where cannibalism is a... See More

The Unexpected Dimension

by Algis Budrys

(3 reviews)

Seven classic excursions into the fantastic imagination of one of post-war America's greatest science fiction writers. This collection showcases the humanity, imagination and variety of Budrys' writing and plotting. See More

The Iron Thorn

by Algis Budrys

(4 reviews)

Honor White Jackson was a human being. But his planet was not Earth, nor his time Now. His world was dominated by a giant Iron Thorn. Beyond the reach of this tower there was supposedly, nothing - except a frozen, airless... See More

Some Will Not Die

by Algis Budrys

(9 reviews)

To get his woman a slice of bread, a man will kill. He does it out of love. To feed and protect his children, a man will conquer the world. A man wants things safe. If he has to, he will pick up a weapon, and if he can, he... See More

Rogue Moon (S.F. MASTERWORKS Book 63)

by Algis Budrys

(96 reviews)

Shortlisted for the 1961 Hugo Award, Rogue Moon is the disquieting and story of what happens when monstrous scientific ambition is matched by human obsession. The moon had finally been reached, and on it was found the most... See More

Space Jockey (Science Fiction Short Stories) (Futura - Science Fiction Short Stories Book 1)

by Philip K. Dick

(11 reviews)

A science fiction anthology, featuring both classic science fiction and brand new science fiction short stories about that danger-filled career of the future... space pilot. A young pilot thinks he knows the cost of war... See More

Cuentos asombrosos de la ciencia ficción (Spanish Edition)

by Clifford D. Simak

Con este volumen comenzamos una serie que pretende dar a conocer cuentos de la edad dorada de la ciencia ficción, escritos por algunos de los autores más representativos y que posteriormente darían el salto a la... See More