Herovits World (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Barry N. Malzberg
- First Published: 1973
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—cautionary
- Time of Work: 1973
- Setting: New York City
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: 1970’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Authors or writers, New York City, Antiheroes, Mental illness
- Locales: New York, NY
The Plot
In Herovits World, Barry Malzberg tells the grim tale of the last days of the books antihero, thirty-seven-year-old science-fiction writer Jonathan Herovit. Sitting at his desk in his crammed study in a rent-controlled apartment in New York City, Herovit finds himself unable to complete his ninety-third science- fiction novel. Beset by a severe case of writers block that comes from his justified feeling that his work is of poor literary quality, and plagued by ever-increasing personal problems, Herovit takes recourse in drinking and daydreaming. He attempts to...
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