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Alfred Bester
Bibliography
Novels
- The Demolished Man (1952)
- Who He? (also published as The Rat Race) (1953)
- The Stars My Destination (also published as Tiger, Tiger) (1956)
- The Computer Connection (also published as Extro) (1975)
- Golem100 (1980)
- The Deceivers (1981)
- Tender Loving Rage (1991)
- Psychoshop (with Roger Zelazny) (1998)
Collections
- Starburst (1958) contains the short stories
- "Disappearing Act" originally published in 1953
- "Adam and No Eve" originally published in 1941
- "Star Light, Star Bright" originally published in 1953
- "The Roller Coaster" originally published in 1953
- "Oddy and Id" originally published in 1950 as "The Devil's Invention"
- "The Starcomber" originally published in 1954 as "5,271,009"
- "Travel Diary"
- "Fondly Fahrenheit" originally published in 1954
- "Hobson's Choice" originally published in 1952
- "The Die-Hard"
- "Of Time and Third Avenue" originally published in 1951
- The Dark Side of the Earth (1964) contains the short stories
- "Time is the Traitor" (originally published in 1953)
- "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed" (originally published in 1958) (Hugo Award Nominee)
- "Out of This World"
- "The Pi Man" (originally published in 1959) (Hugo Award Nominee)
- "The Flowered Thundermug" (originally published in 1964)
- "Will You Wait?" (originally published in 1959)
- "They Don't Make Life Like They Used To" (originally published in 1963)
- An Alfred Bester Omnibus (1968)
- Starlight: The Great Short Fiction of Alfred Bester (1976)
- The Light Fantastic Volume 1: The Short Fiction Of Alfred Bester (1976)
- Star Light, Star Bright: The Short Fiction Of Alfred Bester, Volume 2 (1976)
- The Light Fantastic Volume 2: The Short Fiction Of Alfred Bester (1976)
- Virtual Unrealities (1997) - contains the stories:
- "Disappearing Act" (originally published in 1953)
- "Oddy and Id"
- "Star Light, Star Bright" " (originally published in 1953, used as the title for two other compilations of Bester's short stories)
- "5,271,009" (originally published in 1954)
- "Fondly Fahrenheit" (originally published in 1954)
- "Hobson's Choice" (originally published in 1952)
- "Of Time and Third Avenue" (originally published in 1952)
- "Time is the Traitor" (originally published in 1953)
- "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed" (originally published in 1958) (Hugo Award nominee)
- "The Pi Man" (originally published in 1959) (Hugo Award Nominee)
- "They Don't Make Life Like They Used To" (originally published in 1963)
- "Will You Wait?" (originally published in 1959)
- "The Flowered Thundermug" (originally published in 1964)
- "Adam and No Eve" (originally published in 1941)
- "And 3 1/2 to Go" (fragment - previously unpublished)
- "Galatea Galante" (originally published in 1979)
- "The Devil Without Glasses" (previously unpublished)
- Redemolished (2000) - Contains the short stories:
- "The Probable Man"
- "Hell is Forever"
- "The Push of a Finger"
- "The Roller Coaster"
- "The Lost Child"
- "I'll Never Celebrate New Year's Again"
- "Out of This World"
- "The Animal Fair"
- "Something Up There Likes Me"
- "The Four-Hour Fugue"
- Also contains three fictional articles published in Holiday:
- "Gourmet Dining in Outer Space"
- "Place of the Month: The Moon"
- "The Sun"
- Also contains four essays:
- "Science Fiction and the Renaissance Man", originally delivered as a lecture at the University of Chicago in 1957. The other lecturers included Cyril Kornbluth, Robert A. Heinlein and Robert Bloch.
- "A Diatribe Against Science Fiction"
- "The Perfect Composite Science Fiction Author"
- "My Affair with Science Fiction"
- Also included are interviews with John Huston and Rex Stout, a conversation with Woody Allen, brief articles on Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein, two deleted prologues and an analysis of The Demolished Man, plus a memorial for Bester written by Isaac Asimov and an introduction by Gregory S. Benford.
Non-fiction
- The Life and Death of a Satellite (1966)
Other short fiction
- "Ms. Found In A Champagne Bottle" (collected in The Light Fantastic - 1976)
Bibliography from ISFDB
Fetched: Fritz (talk) 18:20, 6 February 2015 (CST)
Fiction Series
The Great Short Fiction of Alfred Bester 1 The Light Fantastic (1976) [C] 2 Star Light, Star Bright (1976) [C] Starlight: The Great Short Fiction of Alfred Bester (1976) [C]
Novels
The Demolished Man (1952) also appeared as: Serializations: The Demolished Man (Part 1 of 3) (1952) The Demolished Man (Part 2 of 3) (1952) The Demolished Man (Part 3 of 3) (1952) The Stars My Destination (1956) also appeared as: Variant Title: Tiger! Tiger! (1956) Serializations: The Stars My Destination (Part 1 of 4) (1956) The Stars My Destination (Part 2 of 4) (1956) The Stars My Destination (Part 3 of 4) (1956) The Stars My Destination (Part 4 of 4) (1957) The Computer Connection (1975) also appeared as: Variant Title: Extro (1975) Serializations: The Indian Giver (Part 1 of 3) (1974) The Indian Giver (Part 2 of 3) (1974) The Indian Giver (Part 3 of 3) (1975) Golem 100 (1980) The Deceivers (1981) Psychoshop (1998) with Roger Zelazny
Collections
Starburst (1958) The Dark Side of the Earth (1964) Verrukkelijk Fahrenheit [Dutch] (1977) Le livre d'or de la Science-Fiction: Alfred Bester [French] (1986) Virtual Unrealities: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester (1997) Redemolished (2000)
Omnibus
An Alfred Bester Omnibus (1967) [O/2N/1C]
Chapterbooks
The Starcomber (2013)
Nonfiction
The Science Fiction Novel (1959) with C. M. Kornbluth and Basil Davenport and Robert A. Heinlein and Robert Bloch The Life and Death of a Satellite (1966) Experiment Perilous (1976) with Marion Zimmer Bradley and Norman Spinrad
Shortfiction
The Broken Axiom (1939) No Help Wanted (1939) Guinea Pig, Ph.D. (1940) Voyage to Nowhere (1940) The Mad Molecule (1941) Slaves of the Life-Ray (1941) The Pet Nebula (1941) The Probable Man (1941) Adam and No Eve (1941) The Biped, Reegan (1941) Life for Sale (1942) The Push of a Finger (1942) The Unseen Blushers (1942) Hell Is Forever (1942) Oddy and Id (1950) also appeared as: Variant Title: The Devil's Invention (1950) Of Time and Third Avenue (1951) Hobson's Choice (1952) Disappearing Act (1953) Disappearing Act (1953) with Richard Matheson The Roller Coaster (1953) Star Light, Star Bright (1953) Time Is the Traitor (1953) 5,271,009 (1954) also appeared as: Variant Title: The Starcomber (1954) Fondly Fahrenheit (1954) The Die-Hard (1958) Travel Diary (1958) The Men Who Murdered Mohammed (1958) Will You Wait? (1959) The Black Nebulea (Quintet, Part 1) (1959) [only as by Sonny Powell ] The Pi Man (1959) I Will Never Celebrate New Year's Again (1963) They Don't Make Life Like They Used To (1963) also appeared as: Variant Title: They Don't Make Life Like They Used To... (1964) Out of This World (1964) The Flowered Thundermug (1964) Ms. Found in a Champagne Bottle (1968) The Animal Fair (1972) Something Up There Likes Me (1973) The Four-Hour Fugue (1974) Galatea Galante, The Perfect Popsy (1979) also appeared as: Variant Title: Galatea Galante (1979) MS Found in a Coconut (1979) The "Hes", the "Shes", and the "Its" (1987) Never Love a Hellhag (1989) And 3½ to Go (1997) The Devil Without Glasses (1997) The Demolished Man: the Deleted Prologue (2000) The Lost Child (2000) Emerging Nation (unpublished)
Essay Series
Books (F&SF) Books (F&SF, October 1960) (1960) Books (F&SF, November 1960) (1960) Books (F&SF, December 1960) (1960) Books (F&SF, January 1961) (1961) Books (F&SF, February 1961) (1961) Books (F&SF, March 1961) (1961) Books (F&SF, April 1961) (1961) Books (F&SF, May 1961) (1961) Books (F&SF, June 1961) (1961) with James Blish Books (F&SF, July 1961) (1961) Books: The Demolished Man (1961) Books (F&SF, October 1961) (1961) Books (F&SF, November 1961) (1961) Books (F&SF, December 1961) (1961) Books (F&SF, January 1962) (1962) Books (F&SF, February 1962) (1962) Books (F&SF, March 1962) (1962) Books (F&SF, April 1962) (1962) Books (F&SF, June 1962) (1962) Books (F&SF, July 1962) (1962)
Livres d'Amérique Livres d'Amérique (Fiction #99) [French] (1962) Livres d'Amérique (Fiction #104) [French] (1962) Livres d'Amérique (Fiction #106) [French] (1962) Livres d'Amérique (Fiction #110) [French] (1963) Livres d'Amérique (Fiction #114) [French] (1963) Livres d'Amérique (Fiction #118) [French] (1963)
Science Fact (Analog) Mastering the Art of Space Cooking (1977)
Venturings (Venture Science Fiction Magazine) Venturings (Venture Science Fiction Magazine, March 1958) (1958) with Robert P. Mills only appeared as: Variant Title: Venturings (1958) [as by Alfred Bester and RPM ]
Essays
Trematode, a Critique of Modern Science-Fiction (1953) Letter (Startling Stories, March 1953) (1953) They Write... (1953) [only as by Alfred Bestor ] Guest Editorial: What's the Difference? (Science Fantasy, February 1955) (1955) Science Fiction and the Renaissance Man (1959) John Huston's Unsentimental Journey (1959) Gourmet Dining in Outer Space (1960) The All-Star SF Author (1961) My Private World of Science Fiction (Epilogue) (1963) also appeared as: Variant Title: Epilogue: My Private World of Science Fiction (1964) Alfred Bester démoli par Alfred Bester [French] (1964) Comment on Fondly Fahrenheit (1970) also appeared as: Variant Title: Comentario a Afectuosos Fahrenheit (1984) Isaac Asimov (1973) Baked Striped Bass Caponata (1973) Striped Bass Fishballs (1973) My Affair With Science Fiction (1974) How We Work (1975) Selected Bibliographies: Alfred Bester (1975) with uncredited Writing & 'The Demolish Man' (1976) Horace, Galaxyca (1980) Letter (The Patchin Review Number Three) (1982) Bester-Editors Correspondence (1982) with Anthony Boucher and J. Francis McComas Introduction (Odd John) (1987) Breakthrough (1987) Introduction to the Interviews (Redemolished) (2000) A Diatribe Against Science Fiction (2000) Place of the Month: The Moon (2000) The Perfect Composite Science Fiction Author (2000) The Sun (2000) Writing and The Demolished Man (2000) Selections from the Gimmick Books (2001) Letter (Science Fiction Stories, March 1956) (unknown)
Reviews
Eight Keys to Eden (1960) by Mark Clifton Out of Bounds (1960) by Judith Merril The Incomplete Enchanter (1960) by Fletcher Pratt and L. Sprague de Camp The Worlds of Clifford Simak (1960) by Clifford Simak Beyond (1960) by Theodore Sturgeon First Men to the Moon (1960) by Wernher von Braun Nine Tomorrows (1960) by Isaac Asimov Notions: Unlimited (1960) by Robert Sheckley The Genetic General (1960) by Gordon R. Dickson The Saragossa Manuscript (1960) by Jan Potocki When the Kissing Had to Stop (1960) by Constantine FitzGibbon A Clash of Cymbals (1960) by James Blish Agent of Vega (1960) by James H. Schmitz The Status Civilization (1960) by Robert Sheckley The Vortex Blaster (1960) by E. E. Smith, Ph.D. The Weans (1960) by Robert Nathan A Guide to the Stars (1961) by Patrick Moore Deathworld (1961) by Harry Harrison Shadow Hawk (1961) by Andre Norton Star of Stars (1961) by Frederik Pohl Venus Plus X (1961) by Theodore Sturgeon The 5th Annual of the Year's Best S-F (1961) by Judith Merril The Intelligent Man's Guide to Science (1961) by Isaac Asimov Pilgrimage: The Book of the People (1961) by Zenna Henderson Some of Your Blood (1961) by Theodore Sturgeon The Fifth Galaxy Reader (1961) by H. L. Gold The Milky Way Galaxy (1961) by Ben Bova The Unexpected (1961) by Leo Margulies Twilight World (1961) by Poul Anderson Rogue Moon (1961) by Algis Budrys Far Out (1961) by Damon Knight From the Earth to the Moon/All Around the Moon (1961) by Jules Verne New Maps of Hell (1961) by Kingsley Amis Tiger by the Tail and Other Science Fiction Stories (1961) by Alan E. Nourse To the Sun?/Off on a Comet! (1961) by Jules Verne Turn Left at Thursday (1961) by Frederik Pohl Bypass to Otherness (1961) by Henry Kuttner He Owned the World (1961) by Charles Eric Maine Not Without Sorcery (1961) by Theodore Sturgeon Skyport (1961) by Curt Siodmak Slan (1961) by A. E. van Vogt So Close to Home (1961) by James Blish The Big Time (1961) by Fritz Leiber The Edge of Tomorrow (1961) by Howard Fast The Green Rain (1961) by Paul Tabori The Lovers (1961) by Philip José Farmer The Mind Spider and Other Stories (1961) by Fritz Leiber The Synthetic Man (1961) by Theodore Sturgeon Triangle (1961) by Isaac Asimov Trouble with Lichen (1961) by John Wyndham Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961) by Theodore Sturgeon Music of the Spheres (1961) by Guy Murchie Stranger in a Strange Land (1961) by Robert A. Heinlein 6 x H (1961) by Robert A. Heinlein A Hole in the Bottom of the Sea (1961) by Willard Bascom Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life (1961) by Ivan T. Sanderson Greener Than You Think (1961) by Ward Moore The Clock Strikes Twelve (1961) by H. R. Wakefield The Mysterious Sea (1961) by Lester del Rey A Fall of Moondust (1962) by Arthur C. Clarke Mind Partner and 8 Other Novelets from Galaxy (1962) by H. L. Gold The Ghoul Keepers (1962) by Leo Margulies The Glass Bees (1962) by Ernst Jünger A Way Home (1962) by Theodore Sturgeon Battle for the Stars (1962) by Edmond Hamilton Time Is the Simplest Thing (1962) by Clifford D. Simak ... And Some Were Human (1962) by Lester del Rey Prologue to Analog (1962) by John W. Campbell The Fourth Dimension Simply Explained (1962) by Henry Parker Manning The Primal Urge (1962) by Brian Aldiss The Silver Eggheads (1962) by Fritz Leiber Lost Cities and Vanished Civilizations (1962) by Robert Silverberg Planet of the Damned (1962) by Harry Harrison Shadows with Eyes (1962) by Fritz Leiber The Falling Torch (1962) by Algis Budrys The October Country (1962) by Ray Bradbury The Stainless Steel Rat (1962) by Harry Harrison 21st Century Sub (1962) by Frank Herbert Catseye (1962) by Andre Norton Chemistry Creates a New World (1962) by Bernard Jaffe From the Ocean, from the Stars (1962) by Arthur C. Clarke Gray Lensman (1962) by Edward E. Smith Living Earth (1962) by Peter Farb Loch Ness Monster (1962) by Tim Dinsdale Project 12 (1962) by Thomas Grouling The Alley God (1962) by Philip José Farmer The Great Flying Saucer Hoax (1962) by Coral E. Lorenzen The Human Brain (1962) by John Pfeiffer The Lani People (1962) by J. F. Bone The Road to Man (1962) by Herbert Wendt The Unsleep (1962) by Meir Gillon and Diana Gillon The Wall Around the World (1962) by Theodore R. Cogswell Tomorrow and Tomorrow (1962) by Hunt Collins
Interviews
Rex Stout (1967) with Rex Stout Conversation with Woody Allen (1969) with Woody Allen Isaac Asimov (1973) with Isaac Asimov Robert Heinlein (1973) with Robert A. Heinlein Publisher's Weekly Interview (1973) with Robert A. Heinlein Interview With Robert A. Heinlein (1973) with Robert A. Heinlein
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Novels
Who He? (1953) also appeared as: Variant Title: The Rat Race (1956) Tender Loving Rage (1991)
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