A Son of the Rock

I found out on Saturday that SF writer Barry Malzberg has died.

I knew I had several of his books but hadn’t realised until I checked my records (the actual books are in the garage; after downsizing, our house wasn’t big enough to store them all)  that it was as many as fifteen – though two of those were anthologies edited with other people.

Malzberg was fairly prolific in the 1970s – all those fifteen books have 1970s publication dates,  his was one of the names I looked out for back in those days – but seemed to disappear thereafter.

Though nominated for quite a few SF awards he only seems to have won one, the John W Campbell Memorial Award in 1973 for his novel Beyond Apollo.

Barry Nathaniel Malzberg: 24/7/1939 – 19/12/2024. So it goes.