Galaxies (novel)

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AuthorBarry Malzberg
Publisher Pyramid Books
Publication date
1975

Galaxies is a science fiction novel written by Barry N. Malzberg. [1] It was first published in 1975. [2] Galaxies is a metafictional work in which the writing of a science fiction novel becomes entwined with the novel being written.

Malzberg expanded his short work A Galaxy Called Rome into the full-length novel Galaxies. [3]

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References

  1. Paul Di Filippo (2020-03-12). "Paul Di Filippo Reviews Providence by Max Barry". Locus magazine . Retrieved 2020-04-13. The mediacentric fakeness attendant upon the reality of the war effort and the neurotic tics of the crew are pure Barry Malzberg riffs. One might be reading a successor to Malzberg's Galaxies or perhaps Moorcock's The Black Corridor.
  2. Michael W. McClintock (1982). "The Contemporaneity of Barry N. Malzberg". Extrapolation . 23 (2): 138–149. doi:10.3828/extr.1982.23.2.138 . Retrieved 2020-04-13. On the first page of his novel, Galaxies (1975), Barry Malzberg specifies a problem which will keep him from finishing.
  3. Brian Stableford (1979-01-01). ""Chorale" by Barry Malzberg (Book Review)". Foundation . p. 78. Retrieved 2020-04-13. Foundation14 then featured my review of Graven Images, the anthology containing Malzberg's novelette "Choral", in which I said that "although the expansion of 'A Galaxy Called Rome' into Galaxies worked very well indeed, I think Choral will be better left as it is.