Editing Algis Budrys (section)

===Career===
Incorporating his family's experience, Budrys's fiction depicts isolated and damaged people and themes of identity, survival and legacy. He taught himself English at the age of six by reading ''[[Robinson Crusoe]]''. From ''[[Flash Gordon]]'' comic strips, Budrys read [[H. G. Wells]]'s ''[[The Time Machine]]''; ''[[Analog Science Fiction and Fact|Astounding Science Fiction]]'' caused him at the age of 11 to want to become a science fiction writer.{{r|pontin20081020}}  His first published science fiction story was "The High Purpose", which appeared in ''Astounding'' in 1952.  

In 1952, Budrys worked as editor and manager for such science fiction publishers as [[Gnome Press]] and [[Galaxy Science Fiction]]. Some of Budrys's science fiction in the 1950s was published under the pen name "John A. Sentry", a reconfigured Anglification of his Lithuanian name. Among his other pseudonyms in the SF magazines of the 1950s and elsewhere, several revived as bylines for vignettes in his magazine ''[[Tomorrow Speculative Fiction]]'', is "William Scarff". Budrys also wrote several stories under the names "Ivan Janvier" or "Paul Janvier", and used "Alger Rome" in his collaborations with [[Jerome Bixby]].

Budrys's 1960 novella ''Rogue Moon'' was nominated for a [[Hugo Award]] and was later anthologized in ''[[The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two]]'' (1973). His [[Cold War]] science fiction novel ''[[Who? (novel)|Who?]]'' was adapted for the screen in 1973. In addition to numerous [[Hugo Award]] and [[Nebula Award]] nominations, Budrys won the [[Science Fiction Research Association]]'s 2007 [[Pilgrim Award]] for lifetime contributions to [[speculative fiction]] scholarship. In 2009, he was the posthumous recipient of one of the first three Solstice Awards presented by the [[Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America|SFWA]] in recognition of his contributions to the field of science fiction.<ref>{{cite book | title = Nebula Awards Ceremony 2009 | publisher = SFWA | year = 2009 | location = Los Angeles, CA | pages = 13}}</ref>

Having published about 100 stories and a half-dozen novels, with a wife and children to support, after 1960 Budrys wrote less fiction and worked in publishing, editing and advertising. He became better known as among science fiction's best critics than as writer,{{r|pontin20081020}} reviewing for ''[[Galaxy Science Fiction]]''<ref name="Pohl">{{Cite web | last = Pohl | first = Frederik. | author-link = Frederik Pohl | title = Robert A. Heinlein, Algis Budrys and me | work = The Way the Future Blogs | date = May 12, 2010 | url = http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2010/05/robert-a-heinlein-algis-budrys-and-me/ | access-date = August 1, 2010 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100815040048/http://www.thewaythefutureblogs.com/2010/05/robert-a-heinlein-algis-budrys-and-me/ | archive-date = August 15, 2010 | url-status = dead }}</ref> and ''[[The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction]]'', a book editor for ''[[Playboy]]'', a longtime teacher at the [[Clarion Writers Workshop]] and an organizer and judge for the [[Writers of the Future|L. Ron Hubbard Writers and Illustrators of the Future]] contest.<ref>{{Cite web |title=About the Contest |url=https://writersofthefuture.com/about-the-contest/ |access-date=October 11, 2024 |website=Writers & Illustrators of the Future |language=en-US}}</ref> 

Budrys also worked as a publicist; in a famous [[publicity stunt]], he erected a giant pickle on the proposed site of the [[Chicago Picasso]] during the time the newly arriving sculpture was embroiled in controversy.<ref name="zeldes">{{Cite web | last = Zeldes | first = Leah A. | author-link = Leah A. Zeldes | title = The Picasso put Chicago in a pickle | work = Dining Chicago | publisher = Chicago's Restaurant & Entertainment Guide, Inc. | date = July 26, 2010 | url = http://www.diningchicago.com/blog/2010/07/26/the-picasso-put-chicago-in-a-pickle/ | access-date = August 1, 2010 | archive-date = November 27, 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111127040446/http://www.diningchicago.com/blog/2010/07/26/the-picasso-put-chicago-in-a-pickle/ | url-status = dead }}</ref>