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Howard Chaykin,Byron Preiss
Marooned in outer space after an attack on his ship, Nomad, Gulliver Foyle lives to obsessively pursue the crew of a rescue vessel that had intended to leave him to…
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Jad Smith
Alfred Bester’s classic short stories and the canonical novel The Stars My Destination made him a science fiction legend. Fans and scholars praise him as a genre-bending pioneer and cyberpunk…
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Carolyn Wendell
A chronology, study, annotated bibliography of Bester’s works, both within and outside of the science fiction genre.
Alfred Bester
In the year 2301, guns are only museum pieces and benign telepaths sweep the minds of the populace to detect crimes before they happen. In 2301 murder is virtually impossible…
Alfred Bester, author of the classic science fiction novels The Demolished Man and The Stars My Destination, also penned this lost mainstream novel. Who He? is a lunatic variety show.one…
Alfred Bester skewers the 20th Century in this piercing science fictional look back at our age from a remote future. Join the Artsy-Crafty Kid, Jane Tarzan, Edward G. Robinson, and…
Take two parts of Beelzebub, two of Israfel, one of Monte Cristo, one of Cyrano, mix violently, season with mystery and you have Mr. Solon Aquila. He is tall, gaunt…
A band of immortals recruit physicist Sequoya Guess - who gains control of Extro, the super-computer that controls all mechanical activity on Earth. But the task of the merry suddenly…
This edition brings together a range of works by Alfred Bester. It includes the novel The Demolished Man , Hell is Forever and The Four Hour Fuge , there are…
When his lover is kidnapped by the evil Duke of Death, Rogue Winter, King of the Maori Commandos searches the solar system for her and uncovers evidence of an unlimited…
One of the very best must-read SF novels of all time.
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Regina and her bee-ladies, bored members of the elite, while away the idle hours by playing at conjuring the Devil - a game which leads to horrifying consequences. Alfred Bester’s…
In 2301, a psychopathic business magnate comes up with the ultimate plan to eliminate his competition and destroy the order of society.
Marooned in outer space after an attack on his ship, Gulliver Foyle lives to obsessively pursue the crew of a rescue vessel that had intended to leave him to die…
Alfred Bester,Roger Zelazny
Available for the first time in a single volume: the pioneering short stories of Alfred Bester, author of The Stars My Destination , including two never-before-published pieces.
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In a world policed by telepaths, Ben Reich plans to commit a crime that hasn’t been heard of in seventy years: murder. That’s the only option left for Reich, whose…
D. Harlan Wilson
Wilson’s study depicts Bester as an SF insider as much as an outlier, writing in the spirit of the genre but breaking with the fixation on hard science in favor…
Darrell Schweitzer
This volume collects inverviews with Theodore Sturgeon, Alfred Bester, Frederick Pohl, James Gunn, Fritz Leiber, Hal Clement, and L. Sprague de Camp.
Included in this volume are historic interviews with Alfred Bester, Robert Silverberg, Brian Aldiss, James Gunn, Gardner Dozois, Norman Spinrad, Gordon R. Dickson, Ben Bova, Ted White, Jack Williamson, L…
Robert Silverberg
Eleven fantastic stories, from genial and playful to dark and savage –Cover.
Included: Child’s Play, by William Tenn; Autofac, by Philip K. Dick; Adam and No Eve, by Alfred Bester; City of Yesterday, by Terry Carr; The Iron Chancellor, by Robert Silverberg…
Included: The Golden Man, by Philip K. Dick; Danger – Human! by Gordon R. Dickson; All the People, by R.A. Lafferty; Oddy and Id, by Alfred Bester; The Man with…
