Barry N. Malzberg

rash of suicides has sent shock waves through a tightly organized society that officially frowns on such an act but privately makes it unavoidable....

"You mean we're truly going to play for the fate of the Universe?" "Exactly," the Overlord said....

The space program has finally lost its novelty, and a jaded public hardly notices another moon launch....

Galaxies is a brilliantly original science fiction novel arranged in fragments that satirize the science fiction writer imagining new worlds and characters....

Screen is Barry N. Malzberg's daring and controversial debut novel about a man who can only obtain sexual satisfaction by projecting himself into fantasies evoked by the cinema. In the tradition of Vladimir Nabokov, Malzberg draws his listeners over the precipice of rationality into a realm...

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 important human on the planet - for only...

In debt to the mob, the narrator is forced to dig up the body of his old friend....

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....

Jonathan Herovit is a science fiction writer in a state of deep personal and professional crisis....

When man roamed freely among the planets and away to the stars, spacecraft had to carry the best advisers with them....