Author Alfred Bester Bibliography

The Stars My Destination (Alfred Bester) ---»

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Out of control media empire expansion bulletin! Unbridled aggression designed by machines funneled through human flesh! Fight the Order! A classic of the struggle to Entropize freedom. A good re-read, also, now that there are about twenty years of cyberpunk lit behind us. Kind of reminiscent of Spinrads Agents of Chaos, if it had been [...]

Virtual Unrealities: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester (Alfred Bester) ---»

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No one can Best the Bester. In some ways, Besters writing requires the heavy onslaught of his novelistic form to function, as his language is highly immersive. In short stories, it mostly highlights the weird prose poetics of his florid writing style. However, its unfortunate that we have so little from Bester.. He really should [...]

The Demolished Man (Alfred Bester) ---»

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Alfred Bester… a hard-sf writer buried in the body of a florid linguistic dandy. The Demolished Man is one of Besters best known novels, and for anyone who appreciates the density of the Media environment in which humanity finds itself trapped in increasingly smaller concentricitys, a candy store of novelistic complication. Highly psychological, but overlaid [...]