Barry N. Malzberg at 75

On July 24th, one of America's most brilliant unknown writers turned 75.  Well, not quite unknown -- he's published scores of books since 1968.  But he's a neglected giant of post-60s speculative fiction, a contributor to Harlan Ellison's famed anthology Again, Dangerous Visions, a dystopian stylist whose unique visions of the future will alternately depress and enthrall you if they have not done so already, author of the novel that won the very first John W. Campbell Award, Beyond Apollo, savage critic and vital part of the sf world (as expressed in his trenchant essays collected in Engines of the Night and Breakfast in the Ruins), wizard of alternate histories and recursive SF.  In our grim era, his admittedly bleak view of man and the cosmos might well strike an even more resonant chord than it did when he first appeared on the scene nearly half a century ago.  Malzberg was a one-man American New Wave when he was turning out a new book virtually every month in the 1970s. An indefatigable gadfly and something of a genius to boot. Seek out his works or go to your graves forever deprived.