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	Alfred Bester Information
		Alfred Bester (born December 18, 1913 in New York City, died September 30, 1987) was a science fiction author and the winner of the first Hugo Award in 1953 for his novel The Demolished Man.
		Bester attended the University of Pennsylvania where he was a member of the Philomathean Society, and in 1936 married Rolly Goulko.
		Bester wanted to focus the story on Clark Kent as the real hero, while Superman was only "his gun." Bester was devastated when the producer declined to hire an unknown writer and decided to go with Mario Puzo, author of The Godfather.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Alfred_Bester (1305 words)

	Alfred Bester (author) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alfred Bester (born December 18, 1913 in New York City, died September 30, 1987) was a science fiction author and the winner of the first Hugo Award in 1953 for his novel The Demolished Man.
		Bester attended the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1936 married Rolly Goulko.
		Bester wanted to focus the story on Clark Kent as the real hero, while Superman was only "his gun." Bester was devastated when the producer declined to hire an unknown writer and decided to go with Mario Puzo, author of The Godfather.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alfred_Bester_(author) (1224 words)

	190 Bester Place: Alfred Bester
		This time Bester really did succeed in his mission; both the official one (confiscating a large shipment of dust) and the unofficial (keeping dust from falling into the hands of alien governments and hiding the fact that Psi Corps was, in fact, involved in the development of the drug).
		Bester redeemed his debt the next year when he warned Sheridan about the actions President Clark was planning to take against B5 (he even sacrificed his beloved Black Omega Squadron for this).
		Bester was put under a trial and he spent the rest of his life imprisoned in 'Teeptown', the same place where he had spent his childhood.
	besterplace.green-sector.de /bester.htm (1323 words)

	Alfred Bester Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Alfred Bester (December 18, 1913 - September 30, 1987) was a science fiction author and the winner of the first Hugo Award for his novel The Demolished Man in 1953.
		Bester wrote one mainstream novel in the 1950s, The Rat Race, in which a TV game show host, waking up after an alcoholic flout, discovers that someone is out to destroy his life.
		Bester was devistated when the producer declined to hire an unknown writer and decided to go with Mario Puzo, author of The Godfather.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Bester_Alfred.html (722 words)

	Alfred Bester
		Author Alfred Bester produced some of the most innovative and truly original works in the history of the science fiction genre.
		Called by science fiction author Harlan Ellison "the preeminent Class Act of imaginative literature", Bester had a penchant for imagining fantastic gadgets and scenarios and mixing them together with bold adventure and psychological drama.
		Bester worked on such DC Comics notables as Superman, Batman, Captain Marvel, and The Green Lantern, even originating the Green Lantern Oath.
	www.nndb.com /people/502/000048358 (330 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Demolished Man: Books: Alfred Bester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bester does heavily rely on Freudian concepts of id, ego, and superego that were in major vogue at the time, and seems intent on making the point that one man really can create a new reality for the world.
		Bester also uses a good deal of slang and invented concepts in his story, which is just one of the many aspects of the writing that cyberpunk and other avant-garde science fiction writers have been influenced by over the course of recent decades.
		It is a pity that Alfred Bester did not publish more novels and stories than he did over the course of his distinguished career, but the science fiction legacy he did leave behind will forever be studied, emulated, cherished, and most of all enjoyed by generation after generation of readers.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Demolished-Man-Alfred-Bester/dp/0451075854 (2832 words)

	Alfred Bester
		Alfred Bester died in 1987, so often gets overlooked by modern SF readers - this is a real shame as he was a remarkable writer.
		Bester eclipsed his first novel, The Demolished Man, with this remarkable tale of Gully Foyle, transformed from semi-literate bum to anti-hero and freak in a wonderful, lurid, collapsing 25th century world that was obviously the inspirational ancestor of the likes of Blade Runner.
		Bester really invented modern science fiction, moving away from the cardboard characterizations of the earlier authors.
	www.cul.co.uk /books/sfauth24.htm (635 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Stars My Destination: Books: Alfred Bester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bester's bizarro novel from 1956 was way ahead of its time, at least in terms of sheer weirdness and cracked feats of the imagination.
		In this story, Bester has imagined a sci-fi future that is depressingly realistic - the miracles of interplanetary travel have been turned toward corporate profiteering, those who have learned teleportation and telepathy have used them for self-interested and criminal pursuits, and humans are still warring with themselves but now from different planets.
		Bester's fine little novel, not only on constructing characters, but on how to let the art speak the message instead of letting the message crap on the art.
	www.amazon.ca /Stars-My-Destination-Alfred-Bester/dp/0679767800 (1751 words)

	Alfred Bester -- Available Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Bester had completed half of the manuscript before his death in 1987, and then Zelazny finished it off before his own passing in 1995.
		Alfred Bester's first science fiction novel since The Stars My Destination was a major event-a fast-moving adventure story set in Earth's future.
		Alfred Bester (1913-1987) was the author of two of science fiction's seminal works, The Demolished Man and The Stars My Destination.
	www.non.com /books/Bester_Alfred_ca.html (527 words)

	Alibris: Alfred Bester
		Bester was the mountain, all the rest of us merely climbers toward that peak."-- Harlan Ellison.
		This is a collection of 16 short stories written between 1941 and 1979 by Alfred Bester, including the Hugo Award nominees "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed" and "The Pi Man" and his 1953 collaboration with Richard Matheson, "Disappearing Act".
		Half finished upon Bester's death, and completed by Zelazny, "Psychoshop" envisions a commercial establishment that attracts customers ranging from Edgar Allan Poe to a sorcerer intent on fabricating the Beast of Revelations.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Alfred_Bester (547 words)

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	Amazon.ca: The Computer Connection: Books: Alfred Bester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Decades before anyone thought of the term "Cyberpunk", Bester already had his own view of the future, which happens to be very similar to the present - our present, the future present, even Bester's present.
		Alfred Bester is perhaps the best stylist among the SF writers I've read.
		Bester's usual theme of man becoming superman is here again as well, but in a totally different setting.
	www.amazon.ca /Computer-Connection-Alfred-Bester/dp/0743487133 (1292 words)

	Author Information: Alfred Bester :: Internet Book List :: A database of book information and reviews
		Alfred Bester, the author of The Demolished Man, is a successful writer for radio and television.
		Bester studied at the University of Pennsylvania and at Columbia.
		The Besters live in a fine old brown-stone house in midtown Manhattan.
	www.iblist.com /author50.htm (122 words)

	Amazon.com: Deceivers: Books: Alfred Bester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hero Rogue Winter is a "Synergist," acutely sensitive to the world's patterns: in one set-piece sequence he follows an intuitive trail from 12 drummers drumming in a street parade to the goal of a (metaphorical) partridge in a pear tree.
		Bester crams this wild farrago of a narrative with wisecracks, junk science, circus glamor, odd catch phrases, bits of self-conscious cleverness and excess, Chinese esoterica like the Mirror-and-Listen Mystery, and his trademark typographic tricks.
		There are a few of the old Bester touches, such as spacing of text on the page, and an animal called an "Astroboar" that was breed for no fat, but escaped and evolved into a mammoth like creature.
	www.amazon.com /Deceivers-Alfred-Bester/dp/0523485247 (1490 words)

	Alfred Bester: Science Fiction Inventions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Alfred Bester was born in Manhattan in 1913.
		Author Alfred Bester has seen this future, and walked right through it.
		Technovelgy.com is devoted to the creative inventions of science fiction authors and movie makers.
	www.technovelgy.com /ct/AuthorTotalNewsList.asp?AuNum=26 (306 words)

	The Alexandrian - WIR5 - Alfred Bester
		Bester will seamlessly drop a staggeringly original idea into a paragraph, casually passing it by as if it were no more remarkable than the mention of an automobile in a novel of today.
		Unlike this contemporaries, Bester is not content to simply choose one or two or ten different ideas with which to build his future.
		In fact, if I didn’t already know who Alfred Bester was, I would have been terribly excited at discovering a new, cutting edge author after finishing THE STARS MY DESTINATION.
	www.thealexandrian.net /reviews/wir/wir005-bester.html (691 words)

	Amazon.com: The Demolished Man: Books: Alfred Bester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Author, Alfred Bester, won the first Hugo Award for Science Fiction for The Demolished Man. In my opinion this book is still the hallmark of science fiction novels, unfortunately, however, Bester himself is so unheard of in many literary circles and more so in the general public.
		One of the masterpieces of modern science fiction (and considered one of the foundations of that genre) Alfred Bester's "The Demolished Man" is a gritty and thoroughly enjoyable...
		Alfred Bester wrote two of the best sci-fi novels of all time--The Stars my Destination and this one.
	www.amazon.com /Demolished-Man-Alfred-Bester/dp/0679767819 (1549 words)

	Alfred Bester
		Moreover, nearly all the motion-as-sound synaethesia effects are longer in Tiger: Bester evidently added bits for the British edition [or, more plausibly, the text was cut for the magazine serialization, which US book editions then followed].
		These are deep waters, Watson, and nobody thought to ask Alfred Bester until it was too late.
		Alfred Bester was to have been a guest of honour, but that (alas) was the year of his final illness.
	www.ansible.co.uk /writing/bester.html (1981 words)

	AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
		Alfred Bester (December 18, 1913—September 30, 1987) was a science-fiction author and the winner of the first Hugo Award in 1953 for his novel The Demolished Man.
		His short stories, such as "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed" (about unsuccessful atttempts to change history through time travel), cemented his reputation, but he is best known for two of his novels, The Demolished Man and The Stars My Destination (a.k.a.
		The Rat Race), in which a TV game-show host, waking up after an alcoholic flout, discovers that someone is out to destroy his life.
	scifi.com /scifiction/classics/classics_archive/bester/bester_bio.html (236 words)

	Virtual Unrealities: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester
		by Alfred Bester, it was with pleasure that I now dived into some of the short fiction he wrote.
		While some of the stories have somewhat thin plots and characters, the overall atmosphere of the stories is definitely Bester's: sharp, short emotional sentences that will 'jab' at your emotions.
		The main strength of the story is the 'mixing' of the android's and owner's viewpoints, giving it a surreal atmosphere and making you question who is the murderer and who is the owner.
	geocities.com /firstspeaker.geo/books/fiction/virtual_unrealities.html (851 words)

	UKFDB - Author Biography - Alfred Bester (1913 - 1987)
		Alfred Bester was a New York jew who who was educated in both the humanities and the sciences, studying at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia.
		His city roots and his study of psychology inform all his writing as he deals with the urban living of the future andf the inner-workings of the mind.
		Bester is one of the fore-runners of the Cyberpunk movement, as he deals with the mind as well as the technology of the future.
	www.ukfdb.co.uk /author/author_bio.php?id=344 (245 words)

	Alfred Bester: Science Fiction Inventions
		Alfred Bester was born in Manhattan in 1913.
		Author Alfred Bester has seen this future, and walked right through it.
		Technovelgy.com is devoted to the creative inventions of science fiction authors and movie makers.
	technovelgy.com /ct/AuthorTotalNewsList.asp?AuNum=26 (358 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Redemolished: Books: Alfred Bester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In his blending of scientific ideas with eclectic cultural, psychological and philosophical background, Bester anticipated (by over 20 years) acclaimed writers like William Gibson and the cyberpunk school.
		Some of the writing is raw, but it is never dull or predictable, and for a fan it is fascinating to trace the evolution of Bester's style and read his own explanation of how and why he wrote that way.
		Bester died in 1988, unfairly neglected, and this book is the closest anyone can get to meeting him.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Redemolished-Alfred-Bester/dp/0743407253 (654 words)

	Virtual Unrealities: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A collection of short fiction by the pioneering science fiction master includes seventeen tales--two previously unpublished--that deal with a young man whose phenomenal good luck has unexpected consequences and a warlock who practices on Park Avenue.
		Amazon.com: Alfred Bester (1913-1987) was the author of two of science fiction's seminal works, The Demolished Man and The Stars My Destination.
		Bester's use of the word girl and the occasional female as manipulating schemer are not in line with current sensibilities and may give readers pause, especially those accustomed to feminist improvements in modern SF.
	isbn.nu /0679767835 (674 words)

	Alfred Bester - Summary Bibliography (Long Works)
		This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
		Bester, Alfred (New York, New York, USA, 18 December 1913 - 30 September 1987)
		The Complete Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination (1992) with Howard V. Chaykin and Byron Preiss
	isfdb.tamu.edu /cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Alfred_Bester (116 words)

	Alfred Bester
		Bester attended the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1936 married Rolly Goulko.
		Bester stopped writing for Astounding when its editor, John Campbell, became obsessed with L.
		His short fiction was initially collected in Starburst (1958) and The Dark Side of the Earth (1964), with further collections appearing in the 1970s, including Star Light, Star Bright.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /scifinder/a/Alfred_Bester_28author29.php (1254 words)

	ALFRED BESTER - BOOK HELP WEB AUTHOR PROFILE
		In 1953, Alfred Bester won the first Hugo for a science fiction novel for his book, The Demolished Man.
		Bester was born in New York in 1913 and pursued degrees in humanities and psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.
		His most famous and acclaimed work was produced during this period before he again left science fiction to become a magazine writer and literary editor.
	www.bookhelpweb.com /authors/bester/bester.htm (150 words)

	Alfred Bester Biography and Summary
		Alfred Bester has published little science fiction, but his impact on the genre has been enormous.
		Robert Scholes and Eric Rabkin have aptly commented that in the 1950s Bester "pumped new life into that hallowed American form of science fiction, the spac...
		Alfred Bester (born December 18, 1913 in New York City, died September 30, 1987) was a science fiction author and the winner of the first Hugo Award in 1953 for his novel The Demolished Man. Career Bester attended the University of Pennsylvania where he...
	www.bookrags.com /Alfred_Bester (130 words)

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