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The girl rummaged through old cars skewed on the avenue until she found a loose fender. She smashed the plate-glass shop door, carefully stepped across the splinters, entered, and sorted through the dusty dress racks.

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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Novels by Alfred Bester, Short Stories by Alfred Bester, Short Story Collections by Alfred Bester, the Stars My Destination, the Demolished Man, Fondly Fahrenheit, the Computer Connection, the Four-Hour Fugue, Something up There Likes Me, Tender Loving Rage, Redemolished, Virtual Unrealities, Psychoshop, Star Light, Star Bright, Who He?, Time Is the Traitor, Golem100. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Stars My Destination is a science fiction novel by Alfred Bester. Originally serialized in Galaxy magazine in four parts beginning with the October 1956 issue, it first appeared in book form as Tiger! Tiger! (after William Blake's poem "The Tyger", the first verse of which is printed as the first page of the novel). This publication was in Britain, and the book remains widely known under that title in markets where this edition was circulated. Other titles are Hell's My Destination and The Burning Spear. A radio adaptation by Ivan Benbrook was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on September 14, 1991 and repeated on August 16, 1993. The Stars My Destination is, in one sense, a science-fiction adaption of Alexandre Dumas' The Count of Monte Cristo. It is the study of a man completely lacking in imagination or ambition, Gulliver Foyle. Fate transforms "Gully" Foyle in an instant; shipwrecked in space, then abandoned by a passing luxury liner, Foyle becomes a monomaniacal and sophisticated monster bent upon revenge. Wearing many masks, learning many skills, this "worthless" man pursues his goals relentlessly; no price is too high to pay. The Stars My Destination anticipated many of the staples of the later cyberpunk movementthe megacorporations as powerful as the governments, a dark overall vision of the future, the cybernetic enh...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=598935 ... Read more

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Last Enemy by H. Beam Piper ? A Pinch of Culture by Bernard I. Kahn ? Git Along! by L. Sprague de Camp ? Prison Bright, Prison Deep by Frank Belknap Long ? The Devil's Invention by Alfred Bester ? How to Build a Thinking Machine by J. J. Coupling ? Linguistics and Time by Arthur J. Cox ... Read more

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Alfred Bester, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 1578 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Fondly Fahrenheit, the Four-Hour Fugue, Something up There Likes Me, Star Light, Star Bright, Time Is the Traitor. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Fondly Fahrenheit is a science fiction short story by Alfred Bester. First published in 1954, Bester adapted it for television as Murder and the Android on October 18, 1959. The production cast included Kevin McCarthy, Rip Torn, Suzanne Pleshette and Telly Savalas and was nominated for a 1960 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. The central element of the plot is that a rich playboy, James Vandaleur, and his expensive "multiple aptitude android" have become two aspects of a single insane personality. Vandaleur's father is dead, having lost the family fortune, and Vandaleur only has the android which, if it works correctly, can bring in more than enough income to support him in the manner to which he had become accustomed. On a warm humid planet, vast paddy fields raise a huge crop of rice. In these fields men are searching for a lost child. They find the young girl dead, and under her fingernails is blood. Android blood. It's a very hot day. James Vandaleur flees with his android. The android has progressed from acts of defiance, to random destruction, to murder. Each time they flee, each time with less money. They take a space liner to another planet. Vandaleur hires out the android and becomes the plaything of a rich older woman. Vandaleur uses a false name, but she easily identifies the man and his android. In the hot furnace room of her jewelry manufacturing business, the android pours molten gold over her, killing her horribly and painfully. In the heat, it capers, twiddling its fingers and singing an old song. Oh it's no feat to beat the heat.All reet! All re...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=6440286 ... Read more

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Included: "Child's Play," by William Tenn; "Autofac," by Philip K. Dick; "Adam and No Eve," by Alfred Bester; "City of Yesterday," by Terry Carr; "The Iron Chancellor," by Robert Silverberg; "The Box," by James Blish; and "The Dead Past," by Isaac Asimov. ... Read more