Barry N. Malzberg, dont le dernier livre paru en France remonte à la fin des années 1970, est un nom bien connu dans le monde de la science-fiction : son livre Apollo, et après ? a remporté le tout premier John W. Campbell Memorial Award et l'auteur a remporté deux prix Locus pour des essais sur la science-fiction. 

Il est à l'origine de The Galaxy Project qui a pour but de mettre en ligne sous forme d'e-book les nouvelles ayant été éditées dans le magazine Galaxie pendant les années 1950. 

SF Signal nous propose une interview où Malzberg revient sur ce projet : 

Citation:

Jamie Todd Rubin: You have described to me before that the Galaxy project is an effort to bring to e-book form stories that appeared in Galaxy Science Fiction during the decade of the 1950s. The first of these e-books are now available on Amazon and looking through the list, I see stories by Robert Heinlein, Frederik Pohl, Lester del Rey, William Tenn, and Walter Miller, Jr. to name a few. What criteria did you use in selecting the stories that appear in the project?  Barry N.Malzberg: The criteria? Well, that's too broad a term, at least for me (and a bit esoteric for this graduate program dropout): the hope was to bring to a contemporary audience not only the great novelettes and novellas which were Galaxy's great contribution in the 50's, but to evoke through them the spirit of a time in which science fiction was a renewed and hopeful thing. Horace Gold edited Galaxy, he said, "As if it were a contemporary magazine from the future" and he shaped and encouraged a generation of writers who did this with frequent satiric gloss and craftsmanship. Galaxy was the best-written magazine of its time (maybe any time) and the most consistent in its editorial thrust; its writers new and old (many of its best were refugees from Campbell's Astounding) were the best of their time. Furthermore, as Fred Pohl (one of those writers) noted later, "Galaxy was perhaps the only medium in Joseph McCarthy's United States where the truth could be told." The great Galaxy stories were science fiction, of course, but they were also careful and sometimes audacious simulcra of the culture from which they came.  Our first 23 reissued stories are among the best from that time. I wish we had more than one Robert Sheckley story and regret Theodore Sturgeon's absence (uncooperative agents in both cases), they were central to the magazine. But we have Klass, Kornbluth, Damon Knight, Kurt Vonnegut. That's not bad.