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Alfred Bester (December 18, 1913 – September 30, 1987) was an American science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor and scriptwriter for comics. He is best remembered for his science fiction, including The Demolished Man, winner of the inaugural Hugo Award in 1953.
Alfred Bester was a senior Psi Corps officer and one of the more notorious Psi Cops in Level 12 Investigations.[3] Stephen Kevin Dexter was born in August 2189 at a secret location while his parents, Matthew and Fiona Dexter, resistance leaders both, were in hiding.
Alfred Bester (born Dec. 18, 1913, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Oct. 20?, 1987, Doylestown, Pa.) was an innovative American writer of science fiction whose output, though small, was highly influential.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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- September 30, 1987
- December 18, 1913
- The Stars My Destination.
- The Demolished Man.
- Virtual Unrealities: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester by Alfred Bester, Robert Silverberg (Editor), Keith R A. DeCandido (Editor)
- The Computer Connection.
- The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester.
- The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester.
- Virtual Unrealities: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester by Alfred Bester, Robert Silverberg (Editor), Keith R A. DeCandido (Editor)
- The Computer Connection by Alfred Bester.
It expands "The Four-Hour Fugue" into an extraordinary but overheated tale of the jungle of New York in 2175 CE, with diabolism, depth psychology (a Monster from the Id), bee superwomen, pheromones, perverse sex, and overall a miasma of death.
The Demolished Man is a science fiction novel by American writer Alfred Bester, which was the first Hugo Award winner in 1953. An inverted detective story, it was first serialized in three parts, beginning with the January 1952 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction, [1] followed by publication of the novel in 1953.
