Please join me in welcoming Joachim Boaz of Science Fiction and other Suspect Ruminations (on twitter at @SFRuminations). Joachim focuses mainly on science fiction from the 1940 through the 1980s. His indepth reviews often give background information about the author's life and the social circumstances in which the book was written. Many of us discovered Joachim's blog because of his frequent posting of Vintage, Golden aAge, and New Wave science fiction cover art, much of it surreal and over the top.
I especially like this part:
"Malzberg’s fiction is heavily inspired by the rise of postmodern metafiction in the mid to late 1960s and the New Wave movement in science fiction. Metafictional techniques –- for example, the author breaking the fourth wall by addressing the reader or referencing the cigarette add placed in the paperback and the use of unreliable narrators and experimental structure: the epistolary novels, etc.— combine in a particularly jarring yet effective way with one of Malzberg’s overarching themes, the nature and quest for truth."
Glad you liked my post! Have you read any of Malzberg’s works? If so, what are your favorites?
No, I haven’t read anything by Malzberg, sorry to say. I found your post interesting because I like metafiction and science fiction.
Well you should pick up a copy of one of his works
One of my frequent readers commented on my review of Fallin Astronauts that Herovit`s World is generally the best one of Malzberg’s novels to read first.