Algis Budrys

Auf dem Mond lauert der Tod Wir schreiben das Jahr 1959. Satelliten entdeckten ein rätselhaftes Gebilde auf dem Mond, das jetzt unter strengster Geheimhaltung untersucht wird. Es scheint ein gewaltiges Labyrinth zu sein, das offenbar von einer außerirdischen Zivilisation errichtet wurde. Als die Wissenschaftler, neugierig geworden, das Bauwerk betreten, erwartet sie dort ein grauenvoller Tod. Der Physiker Dr. Edward Hawks und der todesmutige Abenteurer Al Barker wollen das Rätsel des Labyrinths lösen, doch so leicht gibt der Mond seine Geheimnisse nicht preis ...

168 p. ; 23 cm

Over the years since 1965, Algis Budrys has emerged as the leading critic of mod­ern speculative fiction: insightful, eclectic, and notoriously uninhibited. Benchmarks collects the material that started it all: 54 Galaxy Bookshelf book-review columns Budrys created for the now-vanished Galaxy Magazine. Written for what was then the world’s leading SF periodical, these legendary summations and summary judgments coincided with the period when newsstand-borne science fiction and fantasy were evolving from pulp toward literature. Budrys’ Galaxy reviews trace an incisive, sometimes wickedly acerbic path through that sparsely charted literary territory.

Pyramid X-1837

Short story collection, originally published in July 1963 as Budrys' Inferno

It was there on the dark side of the Moon, waiting for the first human explorers to discover it -- an alien formation, a trap for the unwary, a place into which many men would venture but from which none would return.

Timeskip / Charles de Lint -- We could do worse / Gregory Benford -- Prescience / Pat Murphy -- Windwagon Smith and the Martians / Lawrence Watt-Evans -- Miss Carstairs and the Merman / Delia Sherman -- Events which took place a day before other events / Avram Davidson -- What befell Mairiam / Algis Budrys -- Jack Straw / Midori Snyder -- A dirge for Clowntown / James Powell -- The edge of the world / Michael Swanwick.