Algis Budrys described the novel as " an important, beautifully controlled, smoothly created book which will twist your mind if you give it the least chance to do so.

Past administrators include Algis J. Budrys and David Alexander Smith.

Algis Budrys found Ringworld to be " excellent and entertaining.

David Hartwell commenting on Algis J. Budrys writing in the review column of Galaxy magazine notes the " ringing scorn and righteous indignation " with which Budry's discussion vibrates in " one of the classic diatribes against Ballard and the new mode of SF then emergent ":

Manuscripts are blind-judged ( with names deleted ), and are separated out in quarterfinal and semifinal award rounds by the Coordinating Judge ( currently K. D. Wentworth, previously Dave Wolverton during much of the 1990s, and originally Algis Budrys ).

Notable writing judges have included: Algis Budrys, Gregory Benford, Kevin J. Anderson, Orson Scott Card, Jack Williamson, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Brian Herbert, K. D. Wentworth, Tim Powers, Robert J. Sawyer, Frederik Pohl, Jerry Pournelle, Andre Norton, Larry Niven, and Anne McCaffrey.

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" Algis Budrys described it as " hypnotically fascinating ," praising Herbert's " intelligence, sophistication, capacity for research " as well as his " ability to write clean prose as an unobtrusive but effective vehicle for a cleanly told story.

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Algis Budrys ( January 9, 1931 – June 9, 2008 ) was a Lithuanian-American science fiction author, editor, and critic.

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Algis Budrys found the novel's premise appealing, praising Brin's " really first-rate SFnal idea ," but its execution disappointing, leaving little of interest but plot details once the central mystery was explained at the novel's midpoint, " and as a plotsmith Brin is just another guy.

Algis Budrys declared that Stand on Zanzibar " takes your breath away ," saying that the novel " put itself together seemingly without effort paints a picture of the immediate future as it will, Brunner convinces you, certainly be.

Shea continued the adventures of Nifft in The Mines of Behemoth ( Baen, 1997 ), serialised one year earlier in the Algis Budrys magazine Tomorrow Speculative Fiction, and in a novel The A ' rak ( 2000 ).

Algis Budrys, although praising Geston as a promising new writer and finding " quite a bit of enjoyment " in the novel, concluded that Lords was " a bad and disappointing book on its own terms.

* David Stewart and Algis Mickunas, " Exploring Phenomenology: A Guide to the Field and its Literature " ( Athens: Ohio University Press 1990 )

Algis Budrys praised the collection as " a fine book of entertainment ," but faulted Asimov's extensive annotations, saying they " the juice out of some very vivacious writing indeed, and one of science fiction's most ebullient personalities.

Algis Budrys hailed the collection as " some of the finest writing fiction has ever known ," describing it as " a magnificent compendium, coincidentally a rewarding and perhaps accurate cross-section of a writer's career.

Algis Budrys praised Rite of Passage as an " intensely believable, movingly personalized story ," saying that " each of the little, perfectly realized steps " in the story " is so perfectly done that one feels a real shock as one realizes that Panshin after all has never been a girl growing up aboard a hollowed-out planetoid.

Algis Budrys found the volume " happens to contain some remarkable work ," although he faulted the jacket copy as overpromotional.

Algis Budrys, describing Delany as " the best science-fiction writer in the world ," praised Nova as " highly entertaining to read " and commended Delany's integration of his sociopolitical extrapolation into his story, his accomplished characterization, and his " virtuosity " in presenting the novel's " classically posed scientific puzzle.

Algis Budrys reported that Marching Through Georgia " is not, in other words, a novel at all, and will be a disappointment if you read it with the wrong expectation "; he noted that while it was " interesting ," it presented " real battles in an unreal world.

Algis Budrys, reviewing Green Eyes, praised Shepard's " ease of narrative style that comes only from a profound love and respect for the language and the literatures that have graced it.

He also wrote many westerns and used the pseudonyms D. B. Lewis, Harry Neal, Albert Russell, J. Russell, M. St. Vivant, Thornecliff Herrick and Alger Rome ( for one collaboration with Algis Budrys ).

Greed also marked the introduction of bassist Algis Kizys as a long-time, near-constant member.

Following McComas and Boucher were other book critics, including Alfred Bester, Damon Knight, Avram Davidson, Judith Merril, James Blish, Joanna Russ, Algis Budrys, John Clute, Orson Scott Card, Charles de Lint, Elizabeth Hand and Michelle West.

New Worlds author Thomas Disch would not earn better quotes from Budrys in the December 1966 review for his " ineptly written " The Genocide, a work of " unrelieved trash " which was filled with a horde of " dumb, resigned victims.

While reviews in the American professional science fiction magazines, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and Galaxy, by Judith Merril and A. J. Budrys, respectively, were highly praiseful, the review in the New Wave outlet, England's New Worlds, by M. John Harrison, while acknowledging the skill and energy with which it had been written, called the book a " waste of time and talent.

Budrys received it without enthusiasm, saying " It is more a sign that Damon's heart is in the right place than it is a really satisfactory book.

Milford participants in the USA ( pre-1972 ) include James Blish, AJ Budrys, Jack Dann, Lester DelRey, Tom Disch, Gardner Dozois, George Alec Effinger, Carol and Ed Emshwiller, Harlan Ellison, Katherine MacLean, Anne McCaffrey, Judith Merril, Frederik Pohl, Gene Wolfe and many others.

Called " AJ " by friends, Budrys was born Algirdas Jonas Budrys in Königsberg in East Prussia.

His family was sent to the United States by the Lithuanian government in 1936 when Budrys was 5 years old.

Budrys was educated at the University of Miami, and later at Columbia University in New York.

Beginning in 1952 Budrys worked as editor and manager for such science fiction publishers as Gnome Press and Galaxy Science Fiction.

In addition to numerous Hugo Award and Nebula Award nominations, Budrys won the Science Fiction Research Association's 2007 Pilgrim Award for lifetime contributions to speculative fiction scholarship.