Algis Budrys(1931-2008)

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While born in eastern Europe, he has lived in the US since 1936. He initially worked for his father, who was US representative of the Lithuanian government-in-exile. He began publishing science fiction in 1952 in the magazine "Astounding Science Fiction" (now "Analog").

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Robo Man

5.8

Writer

1974

Doberkiller

5.3

Writer

1972

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Writer

Robo Man
5.8
- based on the novel by
- 1974
Doberkiller
5.3
- novel "Master of the Hounds"
- 1972

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Les Monstres de l'île en feu
4.9
- technical advisor (uncredited)
- 1960

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Born
- January 9, 1931
- Königsberg, East-Prussia, Germany [now Kaliningrad, Russia]
Died
- June 9, 2008
- Evanston, Illinois, USA(metastatic malignant melanoma)
Spouse
- Edna F. Duna1954 - June 9, 2008 (his death, 4 children)
Other works
(novel) Who? (1959)
Publicity listings
- 4 Articles

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Trivia
His classic science fiction novel Rogue Moon (1960), a conceptual-breakthrough novel about an alien labyrinth on the Moon, was nominated for the 1961 Hugo Award, but lost to A Canticle for Liebowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr..

Quotes
I have seen Adolf Hitler, Henry Wallace, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Douglas MacArthur . . . I have shaken Harry Truman's hand. I have seen the Graf Zeppelin . . . I have seen the swastika-chalked brick-halves that came through our windows at night, and I was playing in a sandbox in Manhattan the afternoon the Hindenburg cruised overhead on her way to a thunderstorm and her grave. I have been called a Nazi, a Communist, a clod, a petit bourgeois and a long-haired egg-head. I am, in short, a child of the twentieth century.