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Product details
Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Baen (April 3, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1416521178
ISBN-13: 978-1416521174
Product Dimensions:
6.2 x 1 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
5.0 out of 5 stars
4 customer reviews
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#4,066,163 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Having burnt himself out writing novels as fast as he could type them, Malzberg published ENGINES OF THE NIGHT as a kiss-off and exposé of the industry he was leaving. His comments are so wry- bitter and funny and touching. Here is an example from "What I did last Summer," but bear in mind this is one paragraph from one essay:I wrote the novel in four days filling in all of the background and details that the short story implied. I smoked many cigarettes—I know this is bad and I'll cut down soon—and drank ten ounces of scotch a day, five before lunch and five before dinner. Also beer. It helped me not to vomit when I ate and did I eat! When I finished the novel, it was late Friday; I said to myself, you've worked four days and made four thousand dollars. That is smart. That is good. Who makes a thousand dollars a day in Bergen County? Not even shrinks or crime bosses make a thousand a day. At least, not consistently.His eulogies of John Campbell, Cornell Woolrich, and Mark Clifton, in particular, were very honest and very well-written. I also loved his outlines for SF stories he was never going to write- offered gratis to anyone who wanted to take them up.The All-Time, Prime-Time, Take-Me-to-Your-Leader Science Fiction Plot... A new and chastened Henry is then educated by the rowdies—who all turn out to have degrees in Traffic Control & Reconstruction; they have been falsely portrayed as ruffians when actually they are scientists whose search for personal freedoms as transmuted into their love for automobiles have become threatening to the Overlords—into the realities of the situation. What he comes to realize is that in the name of "energy survival" and "cleaning up the environment" the Overlords have managed to erode virtually all personal freedoms... whatever. I thought both his guaranteed publishable, and guaranteed unpublishable scenarios were all absolutely brilliant.The original ENGINES is half of BREAKFAST.. the book-length additions don't have as much intensity, but then again, how could they? I was pleased to see a small piece on the "Lone Wolf" series, which was my introduction to Malzberg:... The Lone Wolf was my own raised fist to a purity and a past already obliterated as they were written, rolled over by the tanks and battery of Bolan's ordnance. (Operating under Bolan's pseudonym: "U.S. Government.") Bolan killed to kill: I think Wulff killed to be free. It all works out the same, of course.The story about the hack who goes back to school and finds his "Ace double" "Killers of the Rulers" discussed by the instructor in terms completely baffling to him ("Manichean," to start with)- is pretty priceless.This is one book I liked so much, I find myself incapable of doing it justice in a review. I can barely explain why these essays seemed so good to me, when I don't even read much SF (for Malzberg, it is always SF and never sci fi).
This is basically two books in one: ENGINES OF THE NIGHT and BREAKFAST IN THE RUINS, which are a collection of short essays Malzberg published over the years about both publishing and the science fiction field. If you're just a consumer of sf or fantasy and all you know is what appears on the stand (or in magazines), what you're missing are the stories of egos, desperation, the vagaries of the marketplace, the rise and fall of the pulps and other magazines that used to be so vital in getting science fiction to the public. Malzberg details the horrible truth about being a writer in the sf field; how _hard_ it is; how easy it is to slip into a crack and disappear; how books get published but don't get distributed (or how distributers come and go). In LOCUS Magazine you find all this happy news about who is publishing with whom. What you don't see that Malzberg provides is what goes on behind the scenes. You see how when magazines die, only the safest science fiction gets published; only the "known" authors get published. He lays on the line the absolutely conservative nature of publishing. How books that advocate literary asperations (and perhaps unhappy endings) never get published in the sf field and he lists names and books long since gone from us that will never be reprinted. You think a book like ON THE BEACH could be published today? Think again. (Even when ON THE BEACH was published in the mid-Fifties, it had to be published in Australia where the author lived.) You think Thomas Disch's THE GENOCIDES could be published today if it were submitted by an unknown writer? Nope. This book is an eye-opener. It shows the human side to a genre that might be coming to an end. He says it himself. Nothing new is being published or if it is, it's mostly dazzle and flash. The publishing field as it exists now is very, very conservative and is only interested in authors who can deliver books that are easy to market and sell well. For writers who want to do something different, Malzberg says this might not be the field you want to work in. This is a book that is at once cranky, witty, angry and sad. It echoes my own experience in the field and it's reassuring to see that someone is out there (and has been out there for over forty years) who has already articulated what's come and gone and what's yet to unfold. After reading this book, I'm convinced that the science fiction being published now is a creature totally different from the science fiction that John W. Campbell Jr. advocated and I don't think men like Heinlein, Sturgeon, Kuttner and Van Vogt would recognize it today. I give the field another ten years. Then it'll become just so much mechanical fantasy and the main novelistic conceit will be the alternate history novel. Malzberg is only slightly more optimistic. Get this book if you're interested in what's _really_ been happening in the science fiction field since the 1950s. It'll surprise you. Thanks, Barry
Barry Malzberg's BREAKFAST IN THE RUINS is more than a collection of essays. It is a master class in science fiction by an established master of many genres. It is "required reading for any writer interested in publishing science fiction" or, for that matter, anyone interested in any form of literature—writer or reader. With a bold, unique, and incisively critical perspective, Malzberg pulls no punches as he maps the history of the field and his "personal and professional odyssey" within it. John W. Campbell, Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg, Philip K. Dick, Alice Sheldon (James Tiptree, Jr.), and Harry Harrison are just a few of the familiar names that appear. (Even a very crafty Alfred Hitchcock turns up here and there.) But Malzberg also pays tribute to many of the perhaps less-remembered, including Frederic Brown, Mark Clifton, Cornell Woolrich, T.L Sherred, and Carter Scholz.BREAKFAST IN THE RUINS ranks among the best books I have ever read on writing (not just science fiction) and is, by far, the hardest hitting. Yeah, you bet, I loved it. If it's not on your bookshelf (electronic or otherwise), it should be.
This book is simply a must: for those interested in the inimitable Barry N. Malzberg, the history of sf, or what really goes on behind the scenes in publishing. A brutally honest, poetic, and generous book, "Breakfast in the Ruins" is, easily, the finest non-fiction sf volume ever published. "Tripping With the Alchemist" alone is worth the price of admission. Very highly recommended (along with almost anything else by Malzberg).
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