About the Author
Barry N. Malzberg is the author of some 40 science fiction novels and collections since his first publication in GALAXY Magazine in l967. Some of the science fiction novels are GALAXIES (noted in the book by David Pringle,THE ONE HUNDRED BEST SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS), THE MEN INSIDE, GUERNICA NIGHT, TACTICS OF CONQUEST and THE REMAKING OF SIGMUND FREUD. Malzberg has also written extensively of the field of science fiction itself, both in novels (HEROVIT'S WORLD, about a discouraged science fiction writer) and essays collected in THE ENGINES OF THE NIGHT (Locus Award, l982). He has also written mysteries and suspense novels (some in collaboration with Bill Pronzini) and several novels for the Olympia Press USA, of which SCREEN (l969) is the best known.