{"product_id":"herovits-world-barry-n-malzberg-9798986547985","title":"Herovit's World","description":"\u003cp\u003eJonathan Herovit used to be a rising star in science fiction. Now he's paralyzed by domestic anxieties, creative exhaustion, and an industry that happily consumes its own. Haunted by his wife's post-partum depression, hobbled by his own worsening alcoholism, and mocked by the impossible deadline of a novel he cannot bring himself to face, Herovit retreats further and further into the margins of his life. Then things get truly strange: Kirk Poland-Herovit's hard-boiled, hyper-competent pseudonym-begins to speak to him, critique him, threaten him, and offer a seductive alternative to everything the author hates about himself, fracturing the divide between person and persona. What follows is Barry N. Malzberg at his most incisive and self-lacerating: a comedic nightmare of writerly neurosis, genre politics, and the psychoses baked into American professional life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1973, Herovit's World remains uncannily contemporary. The teeth of Malzberg's satire have only grown sharper with time in his most self-reflexive novel, which exposes the anxieties of late-capitalist creativity, fan culture, toxic ambition, and the paranoid machinery of pulp publishing. This anti-oedipal edition includes a foreword by D. Harlan Wilson, an introduction by Paul Di Filippo, and an afterword by Malzberg himself-one of the last pieces he wrote before logging out of reality's submission portal in 2024.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barry N. Malzberg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798986547985\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Anti-Oedipus Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 198\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.45d","brand":"Barry N. Malzberg","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48014388068607,"sku":"9798986547985","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_368604ce-4481-472e-bed8-6c59e8d852c2.jpg?v=1767748121","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/herovits-world-barry-n-malzberg-9798986547985","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}