Plain Banter

Algis Budrys died yesterday. He was a great writer and a good man. I knew him because he taught the Writers Of The Future workshop that I attended some 13 years ago. But I read and enjoyed his writing long before I met him.

It's sad, but I went to the much-lauded public library in my city today to see what books they had by Budrys. I was surprised to see that they had none in the entire systemwide catalog. None. How ephemeral is science fiction that none of the works of a writer of this stature have survived the annual shelf purges at an otherwise good library?

Perhaps my generation is the last that will read this stuff.

Plain Banter . . . lies about science fiction, and everything else. When the writer becomes the center of his attention, he becomes a nudnik. And a nudnik who believes he's profound is even worse than just a plain nudnik. -- Isaac Bashevis Singer
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