Collecting Myself

Barry N. Malzberg has published more than 500 short stories in a wide range of magazines, books, and best-of-the-year anthologies during the past six decades. Many of those stories have appeared in his assorted collections – but not all of them. “Collecting Myself: The Uncollected Stories of Barry N. Malzberg” goes a long way towards filling that gap. Here are thirty-five beautifully crafted stories that range across a broad spectrum of Malzbergian concepts, themes, memes, obsessions, and narrative approaches. Nobody can tell a story like Barry N. Malzberg. Read these rediscovered gems and find out for yourself.

“The tales Barry tells are tales of crushed dreams and choked ambitions, but they are also tales of exciting intellectual adventures, friendships both literary and personal, and a fellowship of minds devoted to human progress, or at least to warning humanity away from its most base impulses and foibles.” --Andrew Fox, “My Science Fiction Rabbi”

“Malzberg's writing is unparalleled in its intensity and in its apocalyptic sensibility... he is a master of black humour, and is one of the few writers to have used sf's vocabulary of ideas extensively as apparatus in psychological landscapes, dramatizing relationships between the human mind and its social environment in an sf theatre of the absurd.” --The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

"Malzberg makes persuasively clear that the best of science fiction should be valued as literature and nothing else." --Washington Post Book World

Barry Nathaniel Malzberg was born July 24, 1939, attended Syracuse University from 1956 to 1960, where he was awarded a Schubert Foundation Playwriting fellowship. In 1965 he began working for the Scott Meredith Literary Agency, publishing his first story in March, 1966, and his first sf story the following August. Since then, he has published crime fiction, erotica, film and TV tie-ins, men’s adventure, satire, science fiction and approximately 1000 stories and essays under his own name and variety of pseudonyms, as well as collaborating with other authors and editing numerous anthologies. His sf novel Beyond Apollo was awarded the John W Campbell Memorial Award. He lives with his wife in Teaneck, New Jersey.