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Authors | Barry N. Malzberg

Barry N. Malzberg: Initially in his post-graduate work Malzberg sought to establish himself as a playwright as well as a prose-fiction writer. He first found commercial and critical success with publication of his surreal novelette "Final War" in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction under the name K. M. O'Donnell in 1968. By then, he had begun working for the Scott Meredith Literary Agency, in 1965, and would intermittently continue with SMLA through the next several decades, being one of its last caretakers.

Barry N. Malzberg is the author of more than 30 SF novels and more than 250 SF short stories, as well as thrillers and erotic novels under his own name and various pseudonyms. He won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for his 1972 novel, Beyond Apollo.

Learn more at: http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/classics/classics_archive/malzberg/malzberg_bio.html

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