L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future 7

by Algis Budrys (Editor / Contributor)

The Best New Science Fiction / Fantasy of the Year.
What if...
* You were a castaway on a far distant and deadly planet, and yet you were perfectly happy?
* You were the latest in a long line of queens who could fortell the future, but this acted as a curse?

Suppose...
* You were competing with someone else to build a time machine.
*Your plan to raid a fortress was hung up on a seemingly trivial detail.
*That the man or woman you loved wasn't what they seemed to be.

These are just some of the adventures that await...
Embark on fantastic journeys through the limitless expanse of space and the boundless edges of time with creative and engrossing stories by the best new writers of science fiction and fantasy--the winners of the internationally acclaimed Writers of the Future Contest.
Contents:
Introduction by Algis Budrys;
* Georgi / James C. Glass ; illustrated by Thomas Denmark;
* A Plumber's Tale / Merritt Severson ; illustrated by Sergey V. Poyarkov;
* Seventeen Short Essays on the Relationship Between Art and Science / Michael C. Berch ; illustrated by Christopher C. Beau;

Search for research / L. Ron Hubbard;

* Relay / Michelle C. Levigne ; illustrated by Rob Alexander;
* Hopes and Dreams / Mark Andrew Garland ; illustrated by James S. Reece;
* Pandora's Box 2055 / David Hast ; illustrated by Rob Sanford;

My advice to the undiscovered / Ray Aldridge;

* The Trashman of Auschwitz / Barry H. Reynolds ; illustrated by Harold J. Fox;
* The Cab Driver from Hell in the Land of the Pioux Hawques / Allen J.M. Smith ; illustrated by Michael Grossman;
* The Difference / Frank Frazetta;
* Yarena's Daughter / Terri Trimble ; illustrated by Charles Dougherty;

You, yourself, are a delight, and it is only your work that is overwrought or lacking in affect or cliched or dreadfully jejune / Karen Joy Fowler;

* Sensations of the Mind / Valerie J. Freireich ; illustrated by Lawrence Allen Williams;
* The Raid on the Golden Horn / Don Satterlee ; illustrated by Lawrence Allen Williams;

It is just good business / Kristine Kathryn Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith;

* A Plea for Mercy / Ojvind Bernander ; illustrated by Rob Sanford;
* Balanced Ecology / William Esrac ; illustrated by Ferenc Temil Temesvari;

Writing and selling your first novel / Dave Wolverton;

* An Exultation of Tears / Ross Westergaard ; illustrated by Ferenc Temil Temesvari;
* Crow's Curse / Michael H. Payne ; illustrated by Peter H. Francis;

Why we're glad to be here / Algis Budrys;
A Note from Frank Kelly Freas.

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Frank Frazetta (Cover Artist)
L. Ron Hubbard (Lafayette Ronald Hubbard) USA (1911 - 1986).
Algis Budrys (Algirdas Jonas Budrys) USA (1931 - 2008) aka Frank Mason.

Genres: Science Fiction, Fantasy

450 pages, Trade paperback

First published August 1, 1991

About the author

Algis Budrys was 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, Paul Janvier, and Sam & Janet Argo.

Called "AJ" by friends, Budrys was born Algirdas Jonas Budrys in Königsberg in East Prussia. He was the son of the consul general of the Lithuanian government, (the pre-World War II government still recognized after the war by the United States, even though the Soviet-sponsored government was in power throughout most of Budrys's life). His family was sent to the United States by the Lithuanian government in 1936 when Budrys was 5 years old. During most of his adult life, he held a captain's commission in the Free Lithuanian Army.

Budrys was educated at the University of Miami, and later at Columbia University in New York. His first published science fiction story was The High Purpose, which appeared in Astounding Science Fiction in 1952. Beginning in 1952 Budrys worked as editor and manager for such science fiction publishers as Gnome Press and Galaxy Science Fiction. Some of his science fiction in the 1950s was published under the pen name "John A. Sentry", a reconfigured Anglification of his Lithuanian name. Among his other pseudonyms in the SF magazines of the 1950s and elsewhere, several revived as bylines for vignettes in his magazine Tomorrow Speculative Fiction, is "William Scarff". He also wrote several stories under the names "Ivan Janvier" or "Paul Janvier." He also used the pen name "Alger Rome" in his collaborations with Jerome Bixby.

Budrys's 1960 novella Rogue Moon was nominated for a Hugo Award, and was later anthologized in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two (1973). His Cold War science fiction novel Who? was adapted for the screen in 1973. In addition to numerous Hugo Award and Nebula Award nominations, Budrys won the Science Fiction Research Association's 2007 Pilgrim Award for lifetime contributions to speculative fiction scholarship. In 2009, he was the recipient of one of the first three Solstice Awards presented by the SFWA in recognition of his contributions to the field of science fiction.

Budrys was married to Edna Duna; they had four sons. He last resided in Evanston, Illinois. He died at home, from metastatic malignant melanoma on June 9, 2008.

Reviews

[Paige Mitchell · Rating 3 out of 5]

15 Short stories varied between sci-fi, fantasy, or a mixture of both!
There is artwork for every short story- not my favorite style but for sure has that traditional touch which is interesting to see!

My rating is a 3.5 star from the average of all of the short stories.

Favorite Story: Yarenas Daughter by Terri Trimble

Least Favorite story: Hopes and Dreams by Mark Andrew Garland

I love these Writing collections- it is so nice to get little snippets of writing from authors to find a new style, genre exploration, and watch the evolution of the books throughout time! I have a long way to go to catch up to the current year!

What makes me sad is in these earlier novels so far a lot of the entries are only one shot entries, and seems like the author never persude a career, or there are none for me to add to my want to read list- especially the stories i really had a interest in! The first half of this volume had the shorter stories and i seemed to not take to them as much as halfway through where the hard hitting stories seemed to be hiding!

The style of sci-fi back in the 80-90's is so different then what the modern era portrays- its a bit more wonky and cheesey feeling but in a way that also is fun to read.

This book took me so long to read due to bieng a new mother and giving all my time and attention to keeping her happy- hopefully i am finding a balance to get more reading time in!

[Gill · Rating 2 out of 5]

I really was not impressed with these stories. By the time I finished the collection of tales I could only recall one about a queen's daughter who has been travelling and trying to face her future as queen after her mother, and one about a character finding himself in what appears to be a constructed and restricted world. As for the essays on how to write and how to illustrate only one of the former seemed to contain any useful information and the one by the cover illustrator Frank Frazetta was just a glorified self-promotion in which he praises his own work and especially this cover picture(which I thought dire and lacking anatomical integrity) and his own talent!
Good science fiction I enjoy - I won't remember any of these authors or look out for their work.

[Annabelle · Rating 3 out of 5]

3 stars, if only for:

1. Terri Trimble's nice little yarn, YARENA'S DAUGHTER; most everything else here was pretty amateurish.

2. Another highlight worth mentioning were past finalists (who went on to make it big in the world of SF) sage advice on writing, getting published and everything else that comes in between.

For these two reasons alone, I'm keeping the book.

Note: the cover was done by Frank Frazetta, the same guy who did the illustrations for 50s era cartoon Li'l Abner and Buck Rogers.

[Chamie]

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