Introduction
The reader be
warned, Malzberg's modus operandi as a writer is unique. Sometimes he says
things other writers would be afraid to, sometimes he constructs situations
other writers couldn't bear to write about. His characters are by turns
startling, disgusting, outrageous, bitter, pathetic and brilliant. One
consistent quality I have found in his writing is a sense of energy, of
expenditure, of consumption, almost exhaustion. Of outrage or sadness,
fear or fragmentation. This serves to reinforce the image of Malzberg's
writing as a kind of defense mechanism against the mechanical coldness
of the universe, and thereby a heady outpouring of himself through his
literary visions.
Though I often finds scenes in Malzberg works hilarious, this does not mean that they are "funny" in the mainstream sense of the word. Malzberg’s humor is very dark, peculiar unto himself: it refuses to be categorized. Offbeat would be a mild way of putting it. Personally, he’s one of the few writers who can make me laugh out loud (although perhaps that is simply a reflection of my own dementia).
Just read him and make up your own mind.
Novels:
Screen
(1968)
Oracle
of a Thousand Hands (1968)
The
Empty People (1969)
Dwellers
of the Deep (1970)
Confessions
of Westchester County (1971)
The
Falling Astronauts (1971)
Gather
in the Hall of the Planets (1971)
In My Parents'
Bedroom (1971)
The
Spread (1971)
Horizontal
Woman (1972)
Overlay
(1972)
Beyond
Apollo (1972)
The
Masochist (1972)
Revelations
(1972)
In
the Enclosure (1973)
Herovit's
World (1973)
The
Men Inside (1973)
Phase
IV (1973)
Underlay
(1974)
Guernica
Night (1974)
The
Destruction of the Temple (1974)
Tactics
of Conquest (1974)
The
Day of the Burning (1974)
On
a Planet Alien (1974)
The
Sodom and Gomorrah Business (1974)
Conversations
(1974)
Galaxies
(1975)
The
Gamesman (1975)
The
Running of Beasts (1976) with Bill Pronzini
Scop (1976)
Acts
of Mercy (1976) with Bill Pronzini
The
Last Transaction (1977)
Chorale
(1978)
Night
Screams (1979) with Bill Pronzini
Prose
Bowl (1980) with Bill Pronzini
The
Cross of Fire (1982)
The
Remaking of Sigmund Freud (1985)
As Howard Lee:
The Way of the Tiger, The Sign of the Dragon (1973)
As Mike Barry - The Lone Wolf series:
Night
Raider (1973)
Bay
Prowler (1973)
Boston
Avenger (1973)
Desert
Stalker (1974)
Havana
Hit (1974)
Chicago
Slaughter (1974)
Peruvian
Nightmare (1974)
Los
Angeles Holocaust (1974)
Miami
Marauder (1974)
Harlem
Showdown (1975)
Detroit
Massacre (1975)
Phoenix
Inferno (1975)
The
Killing Run (1975)
Philadelphia
Blow-Up (1975)
As Mel Johnson :
Love
Doll (1967)
I,
Lesbian (1968)
Just
Ask (1968)
Instant
Sex (1968)
Chained
(1968)
Kiss
and Run (1968)
Nympho
Nurse (1969)
The
Sadist (1969)
Do
It To Me (1969)
Born
to Give (1969)
Campus
Doll (1969)
The
Box (1969)
A
Way With All Maidens (1969)
As Claudine Dumas:
Diary of a Parisian Chambermaid (1969)
As Lee W. Mason:
Lady of a Thousand Sorrows (1977)
As Francine di Natale:
As Gerrold Watkins:
The
Art of the Fugue (1970)
A
Bed of Money (1970)
Giving
It Away (1970)
A
Satyr's Romance (1970)
Southern
Comfort (1969)
As Eliot B. Reston:
Short story/essay collections:
Final
War and Other Fantasies (1969)
In
the Pocket and Other Science Fiction Stories (1971)
Universe
Day (1971)
Out
from Ganymede (1974)
The
Many Worlds of Barry Malzberg (1975)
The
Best of Barry N. Malzberg (1976)
Down
Here in the Dream Quarter (1976)
Malzberg
at Large (1979)
The
Man who Loved the Midnight Lady (1980)
The
Engines of the Night: Science Fiction in the Eighties (1982)
The
Passage of the Light -- The Recursive Science Fiction of Barry N. Malzberg
(1994)
In
the Stone House (2000)
