COF Recommends Science Fiction By Alfred Bester
Discover top Alfred Bester science fiction books with COF's curated recommendations. Explore groundbreaking classics like 'The Stars My Destination' and 'The Demolished Man'—must-reads for sci-fi fans!
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The Stars My Destination
by Alfred Bester
In this pulse-quickening novel, Alfred Bester imagines a future in which people "jaunte" a thousand miles with a single thought, where the rich barricade themselves in labyrinths and protect themselves with radioactive hit men--and where an inarticulate outcast is the most valuable and dangerous man alive.
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Virtual Unrealities
by Alfred Bester
"Dazzlement and enchantment are Bester's methods. His stories never stand still a moment." —Damon Knight, author of Why Do Birds Alfred Bester took science fiction into hyperdrive, endowing it with a wit, speed, and narrative inventiveness that have inspired two generations of writers. And nowhere is Bester funnier, speedier, or more audacious than in these seventeen short stories—two of them previously unpublished—that have now been brought together in a single volume for the first time. Read about the sweet-natured young man whose phenomenal good luck turns out to be disastrous for the rest of humanity. Find out why tourists are flocking to a hellish little town in a post-nuclear Kansas. Meet a warlock who practices on Park Avenue and whose potions comply with the Pure Food and Drug Act. Make a deal with the Devil—but not without calling your agent. Dazzling, effervescent, sexy, and sardonic, Virtual Unrealities is a historic collection from one of science fiction's true pathbreakers. "Alfred Bester was one of the handful of writers who invented modern science fiction. " —Harry Harrison
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The Demolished Man
by Alfred Bester
In 2301, a psychopathic business magnate comes up with the ultimate plan to eliminate his competition and destroy the order of society.
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The Computer Connection
by Alfred Bester
Now in mass-market paperback--an epic novel by the science fiction grand master. "Bester was, and remains, long after his passing, the preeminent 'Class Act' of imaginative literature. Bester was the mountain, all the rest of us merely climbers toward that peak."-- Harlan Ellison.
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The Deceivers
by Alfred Bester
This epic by a Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master reinvents the space opera and introduces hero Rogue Winter, King of the Maori Commandos, and his lover, the beautiful Demi Jeroux, who has been kidnapped by the villainous, demonic Manchu Duke of Death.
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