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There is a common theme in Conan Doyle's science fiction: an extremely delicate balance exists between man, machine, and monster.

Collections of science fiction short stories by early Hugo winner Mark Clifton

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.