Barry N. Malzberg/Quotes

Barry Nathaniel Malzberg (b. 24 July 1939) is an American writer and editor.
== Quotes about Malzberg ==
=== 20th century ===
==== 1977 ====
* Well, Doc Smith is fine, gents, and so are Heinlein and Eric Frank Russell, but they are none of them artists fit to sharpen Barry Malzberg's pencils. What has made Malzberg's work more prone to attack than earlier literary writers of sf is that Malzberg, like any serious writer, has carried that work one step farther. Inside sf Malzberg never relinquished his integrity, his ability to create on paper some sort of archetype which bore him and his characters like currents on a wire to the hearts of the problems and fears we, each of us, must face every day, and will no doubt face thousands of years from now. Writers like Malzberg are never loved; they ask too much of us, they offer us too much pain and anger. Pain which Kimball Kinnison or Captain Kirk would never understand and would rather flee, burying their heads beneath alien sands. So, too, it seems, would people like Darrell Schweitzer rather flee than confront the demons which dwell within him (and all of us) that Malzberg ellucidated[sic] with such agonizing clarity.
** Keith Ferrell, published 1977A Letter from Keith Ferrell, 12 February 1977 - Keith Ferrell - Science Fiction Review Volume 6 #2 - Richard E. Geis - Published May 1977 Page 42 - Retrieved 28 March 2024
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