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Beyond Apollo, Barry N. MalzbergтАЩs novel of a NASA mission to Venus gone terribly and mysteriously awry,
was published by Random House in l972 and won the first John W. Campbell Memorial Award the following
year. Two astronauts depart on a Venus expedition, upon their return, one astronaut is missing and the
survivor, Harry M. Evans, is assessed as mad and immediately institutionalized. Evans is unable to explain
what happened on the mission; he is encouraged by the supervising psychiatrist to put his thoughts into a
journal and it is the journal of that expedition and its several conflicting "explanations" of the outcome of the
voyage, which comprise the text of the novel.

Barry N. Malzberg (l939 - ) published several novels on the space program and NASA of whichBeyond Apollo
is the best known. MalzbergтАЩs view of NASA was characterized as pessimistic and technophobic: writing of
that agency at the peak of its achievement and public relations success, MalzbergтАЩs novels, raising questions
on the efficacy and destiny of the space program, were decidedly controversial. Prolific through the l970тАЩs,
MalzbergтАЩs most recent novel,The Remaking of Sigmund Freud , appeared in l985. He has since then
published short stories and non-fiction.

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For Joyce, Stephanie Jill and
Erika Cornell

And in memory of Herbert Finney
1898тАУ8/27/61
RECOVERY

It is there, alwaysтАФdead
Back of the bed, loosening
The fingers of your mind.
In sleep it takes you by the hair
A mile
Down until you watch, bailed out,
Your breath flattening
Into parachutes of mercury.
Speak, it says and watch,
Fluttering the air fall
Upward to the air.