False Night

TitleFalse Night
Year for Search1954
AuthorsBudrys, Algis [Algirdas Jonas](1931-2008)
Date Published1954
PublisherLion Books
Place PublishedNew York
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

Post-catastrophe (plague) survivalist dystopia as seen through different protagonists over a half century, with much of it concerned with conflicts among the protagonists.

Additional Publishers

A longer version published as Some Will Not Die, Here is Tomorrow. Evanston, IL: Regency Books, 1961. Further revised without the subtitle. Illus. Frank Kelley Freas. Norfolk, VA: Starblaze/Donning, 1978. Rpt. New York: Dell, 1979. Chapter 6 was originally published as “Ironclad.” Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) 7.6 (March 1954): 76-101.

Title Note

A longer version published as Some Will Not Die, Here is Tomorrow.

Holding Institutions

Merril

Author Note

The author (1931-2008) was born in what was then East Prussia of Lithuanian parents and was brought to the U.S. by his parents when he was five.

Full Text

1954 Budrys, Algis [Algirdas Jonas] (1931-2008). False Night. New York: Lion Books. A longer version published as Some Will Not Die, Here is Tomorrow. Evanston, IL: Regency Books, 1961. Further revised without the subtitle. Illus. Frank Kelley Freas. Norfolk, VA: Starblaze/Donning, 1978. Rpt. New York: Dell, 1979. Chapter 6 was originally published as “Ironclad.” Galaxy Science Fiction (New York) 7.6 (March 1954): 76-101. DLC, Merril, PSt

Post-catastrophe (plague) survivalist dystopia as seen through different protagonists over a half century, with much of it concerned with conflicts among the protagonists. The author was born in what was then East Prussia of Lithuanian parents and was brought to the U.S. by his parents when he was five.