Title: Alfred Bester. 12 novels Author(s): Alfred Bester Pages: 1 Publisher: Publication date: Language: English Format: LITs ISBN-10: ISBN-13: Description: List:
Biped Reegan.lit
Demolished Man.lit
Disappearing Act.lit
Flowered Thundermug.lit
Fondly Faranheit.lit
Galatea Galante.lit
Hell Is Forever.lit
Hobsons Choice.lit
The Four-Hour Fugue.lit
The Stars My Destination.lit
Will You Wait.lit
Tiger! Tiger!.lit
Alfred Bester (December 18, 1913 - September 30, 1987) was an American science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor, and continuity writer for comic strips and comic books. Though successful in all these fields, he is probably best remembered today for his work as a science fiction author, and as the winner of the first Hugo Award in 1953 for his novel The Demolished Man.
With two novels and a handful of short stories, most of them written in a short burst in the 1950s, Alfred Bester opened out the possibilities of the sf field both as vehicle for story-telling and as a way of looking darkly at the world and human psychology. The Demolished Man is a psychological thriller in which a tycoon decides to kill a rival and get away with it in an era in which telepathic cops catch every serious criminal; both in its sparkling portrayal of multi-person mind-to-mind dialogue, and in its narrative trickery, the story of Ben Reich and his nemesis Lincoln Powell is one of sf's most effective contributions to the noir thriller. The other is Tiger,Tiger (aka The Stars My Destination); if The Demolished Man is Crime and Punishment with telepaths, Tiger,Tiger is The Count of Monte Cristo with teleportation and interplanetary war. Left to die in a shattered spaceship, illiterate spacehand Gully Foyle swears vengeance and remakes himself as master criminal and dilettante socialite, and changes the worlds around him in the process. Tiger, Tiger is also an inventive working through of a conceit from bastardized Freudianism--Foyle is at one level a symbol for the unbridled id. Bester's later novels are considerably less important--with these two books, he helped shape both the New Wave and cyberpunk.
The Demolished Man, by Alfred Bester, is a science fiction novel that was the first Hugo Award winner in 1953. The story was first serialized in three parts, beginning with the January 1952 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction, followed by publication of the novel in 1953. The novel is dedicated to Galaxy's editor, H. L. Gold, who made suggestions during its writing. Bester's title was Demolition!, but Gold talked him out of it.
Title: Alfred Bester. 12 novels