James Nicoll Reviews

Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?

Beyond Apollo

By Barry N. Malzberg

10 Aug, 2025

**Because My Tears Are Delicious To You**

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Barry N. Malzberg’s 1972 Campbell-Award-winner Beyond Apollo is a stand-alone New Wave science fiction novel.

Two Americans set out for Venus. One man, Harry M. Evans, returned. The authorities would very much like to know what happened to Evans’ captain. Evans is not unwilling to be forthcoming. Evans is all too forthcoming.

Old Rivers Grow Wilder Every Day

The End of Summer: Science Fiction of the Fifties

By Barry N. Malzberg & Bill Pronzini

11 Dec, 2022

**Because My Tears Are Delicious To You**

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Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini’s 1979 The End of Summer: Science Fiction of the Fifties is an anthology of what the editors regarded as the better science fiction of the 1950s. The End of Summer: Science Fiction of the Fifties was also published as The Fifties: The End of Summer.