1. Alfred Bester --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on Alfred Bester innovative American writer of science fiction whose output, though small, was highly influential. http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9095178/Alfred-Bester

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2. The Templeton Gate - Authors - Alfred Bester Alfred Bester (19131987) - born in New York City and educated at the University of Pennsylvania in both the humanities and in psychology, a scientific http://templetongate.tripod.com/bester.htm

Profiled by Galen Strickland Alfred Bester (1913-1987) - born in New York City and educated at the University of Pennsylvania in both the humanities and in psychology, a scientific discipline he would use to good effect in all his SF. He could perhaps thank Robert A. Heinlein for the publication of his first short story, "The Broken Axiom," winner of the 1939 amateur short-story contest sponsored by the genre magazine Thrilling Wonder Stories . This was the same contest that initiated Heinlein's first story submitted to Astounding Science Fiction . Other notable stories from this period include "Adam and No Eve" (1941) and "Hell is Forever" (1942). "Alfred 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, from his introduction to The Deceivers Never a prolific SF writer, AB left the genre magazines in 1942 in favor of the comics. He worked on such popular titles as Superman Batman Captain Marvel , and The Green Lantern (he originated the Greet Lantern Oath), before moving on to radio and television scripting. He wrote for the radio serials

3. "Bibliographie De Bester Alfred" LISTE DES OUVRAGES ECRITS PAR bester alfred (USA, 1913 1987) Pseudonyme Sonny Powell Récompenses et prix littéraires de Science-fiction décernés à http://www.allsf.net/Autrauteurs/B/Bester.htm

Pseudonyme : Sonny Powell Récompenses et prix littéraires de Science-fiction décernés à Alfred Bester : Hugo Award : en 1953 Prometheus Award : en 1988 HOME PAGE AUTRES AUTEURS LETTRE B HAUT DE LA PAGE Paul Denis Mise à jour : 29/07/2002.

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ANTI Q BOOK Search Antiqbook Ask a question or Order this book Browse our books ... Book dealer info BESTER ALFRED Starlight the Best of Alfred Bester 1976 book club Doubleday. 1976. Hard Cover with dust jacket. Very Good/Good +. 409pgs 5.5'x8.5'. Very Good/Good +. US$ 9.20 Offered by: Connie Popek, Bookseller - Book number: 0267 See more books from our catalog: Science Fiction Hundreds of the world's finest antiquarian and used booksellers offer their books on Antiqbook. They offer full satisfaction and normal prices - no markups, no hidden costs, no overcharged shipping costs. 7 million books at your fingertips! Search all books at Antiqbook

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ANTI Q BOOK Search Antiqbook Ask a question or Order this book Browse our books ... Book dealer info BESTER ALFRED The Stars My Destination New York, 1957, 197 pp., paperback, 11 x 18 cm, By the author of The Demolished Man, Naam op titelpagina / Name on title page, Band wat verkleurd / Discolouration, A Signet Book, Rug beschadigd / Spine damaged Goed / Good / Bien / Gut. EUR 4.00 = appr. US$ 5.86 Offered by: in't Profijtelijk Boeksken - Book number: 147029%26275H See more books from our catalog: Science Fiction Engels Hundreds of the world's finest antiquarian and used booksellers offer their books on Antiqbook. They offer full satisfaction and normal prices - no markups, no hidden costs, no overcharged shipping costs. 7 million books at your fingertips! Search all books at Antiqbook

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11. Alfred Bester - Wikipedia Translate this page Alfred Bester studierte an der University of Pennsylvania Naturwissenschaften und Kunstgeschichte und erwarb dort seinen Bachelor of Arts. Im April 1939 http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Bester

Alfred Bester aus Wikipedia, der freien Enzyklop¤die Wechseln zu: Navigation Suche Alfred Bester 18. Dezember in New York City 30. September in Doylestown (Pennsylvania) USA ) war ein US-amerikanischer Science-Fiction Autor . 1953 gewann er f¼r seinen Roman The Demolished Man (deutsch Demolition oder auch Sturm aufs Universum ) den ersten Hugo Award Bearbeiten Leben Alfred Bester studierte an der University of Pennsylvania Naturwissenschaften und Kunstgeschichte und erwarb dort seinen Bachelor of Arts . Im April 1939 ver¶ffentlichte er seine erste Kurzgeschichte, The Broken Axiom , in Thrilling Wonder Stories , nachdem er einen Amateur-Geschichtenwettbewerb gewonnen hatte. Dieser Wettbewerb war darauf angelegt, ihm den Start ins Schriftstellerleben zu erm¶glichen: Freunde, die seine schriftstellerischen Ambitionen kannten, dachten sich den Wettbewerb aus. Er schrieb weiterhin Kurzgeschichten und begann 1942 bei DC Comics als Schreiber f¼r Superman Green Lantern und andere Comics . Nach vier Jahren im Comic-Gewerbe richtete er seine Aufmerksamkeit auf H¶rspiele und schrieb f¼r The Shadow und Charlie Chan . Von ihm stammt der Original Green-Lantern-Schwur. Dieser Hintergrund erkl¤rt wahrscheinlich seinen f¼r damalige Verh¤ltnisse innovativen Erz¤hlstil – oft rasant und dialog-orientiert. Alfred Besters Kurzgeschichten wurden urspr¼nglich in Starburst (1958, deutsch

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14. Beamjockey: Worldcon GoHs: How Long In The Saddle? bester alfred 1913 Wollheim Donald A 1914 Brackett Leigh 1915 del Rey Lester 1915 Vance Jack 1916 Turner George 1916 Bloch Robert 1917 Clarke Arthur C. 1917 http://beamjockey.livejournal.com/68630.html

beamjockey ( beamjockey ) wrote, Worldcon GoHs: How Long in the Saddle? It has become interesting to ask the age of Professional Guests of Honor at the World Science Fiction Convention. And how long they were working in the field before the Worldcon honored them. Birth year vs. year of Worldcon for Professional Guests of Honor Sources: Wikipedia entries on individual World Science Fiction Conventions (Worldcons) and Guests of Honor and Internet Science Fiction Database (ISFDB) bibliographies of authors and editors. Rules: Science fiction, fantasy, and horror count. From my graphs, I eliminated Pro GoHs not known as authors or editors (e.g. artists, an essayist (Ley), GoHs from TV and motion pictures). In the case of some artists, it was difficult to learn the date of their first work in the field. I eliminated the Ballantines because I'm not sure of the date of their first SF or fantasy work. Most GoHs primarily known as editors have also written stories; I used date of first sale to mark their entry into the field. I'm not sure I have accurate figures on the first sales of Wolfgang Jeschke, Josef Nesvadaba, or Sakyo Komatsu. I did the best I could.

15. Alfred Bester - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia alfred bester (December 18, 1913 September 30, 1987), known to his friends as Alfie, was a science fiction author and the winner of the first Hugo Award http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Bester_(author)

Alfred Bester From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Redirected from Alfred Bester (author) Jump to: navigation search This article is about the science fiction author. For the Babylon 5 character named after him, see Alfred Bester (Babylon 5) Alfred Bester. Alfred Bester December 18 September 30 ) was an American science fiction author , the winner of the first Hugo Award in 1953 for his novel The Demolished Man Contents Biography Radio Films and television Important works ... edit Biography Born in New York City , Bester attended the University of Pennsylvania where he was a member of the Philomathean Society . He went on to Columbia Law School , but tired of it and dropped out. In 1936 he married Rolly Goulko. Alfred and Rolly Bester remained married for 48 years until her death on January 12 . The Besters lived on Geigel Hill Road in Ottsville, Pennsylvania. His first short story, "The Broken Axiom", was published in Thrilling Wonder Stories (April 1939) after winning an amateur story competition. Reputedly, this competition was arranged by editors who knew Bester and were favorably inclined toward his early work as a way of giving him a way of breaking into the field. He continued to publish short fiction, most notably in John W. Campbell

16. Alfred Bester, Science Fiction Writer A bibliography of alfred bester, the recipient of the first Hugo Award for a SF novel. http://www.hycyber.com/SF/bester_alfred.html

Alfred Bester December, 18, 1913 - September 30, 1987 Recipient of First Hugo for SF Novel: The Demolished Man (1953) Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master Award 1988 Novels Bester, Alfred, The Demolished Man, Shasta, New York, 1953. Hugo (serial in Galaxy, January, 1952 - March, 1952.) Tiger! Tiger! The Stars My Destination The Stars My Destination, Franklin Watts, New York, 1956. ISBN: 0-531-15050-X (serial in Galaxy, October, 1956 - January, 1957.) The Computer Connection, Berkley, New York, 1975. (aka Extro Golem The Deceivers, Pinnacle Books, New York, 1982. Original Short Fiction Bester, Alfred, Astounding Fantastic Stories Galaxy New Worlds ... Unknown Collection of Short Fiction Bester, Alfred, Starburst, New American Library, New York, 1958. The Dark Side of Earth, New American Library, New York, 1964. The Light Fantastic Nelson Doubleday, Garden City, New York, 1976. Star Light, Star Bright Nelson Doubleday, Garden City, New York, 1976. Starlight Nelson Doubleday, Garden City, New York, 1976. Virtual Unrealities Vintage, New York, 1997. ISBN: 0-679-76783-5

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Alfred Bester The Pi Man Alfred Bester published fourteen science fiction stories between 1939 and 1942, mostly in Campbell's magazines. He left the field to work in comics and then in radio drama, returned to sf in 1950 and published only twelve more short stories and two novels before 1960. Those novels The Demolished Man (1953) and The Stars My Destination (1956) and those few stories made him for many the premier science fiction writer of that decade. In fact, in the 1970s, The Stars My Destination was still generally considered the best sf novel ever written. His 1950s work was symbolic of the new styles of sf championed by Galaxy and The Magazine of Fantasy Science Fiction; none of his stories appeared in Astounding. "The one word most symbolic of science fiction is, of course, 'extrapolation,'" he said in his collection, Starlight (1976), and defined it as "The continuation of a trend, either increasing, decreasing or steady-state, to its culmination in the future. The only constraint is the limit set by the logic of the universe." Note that he does not mention science. This is not exactly what Campbell meant when he used the term extrapolation, and Bester's usage is slippery enough to permit much more of the fantastic (and little or no overt science). Elsewhere, he said, "I'm not much interested in extrapolating science and technology; I merely use extrapolation as a means of putting people into new quandaries which produce colorful pressures and conflicts." His example was enormously influential. Nearly every ambitious young sf writer of the 1960s, certainly all the New Wave writers, from Brian W. Aldiss to Samuel R. Delany, from Michael Moorcock to Roger Zelazny, revered his work. Twenty years ago, it would have been surprising that any of his books be out of print, as they all are today.

19. Alpha Ralpha Boulevard Alfred Bester An alfred bester Omnibus 1976; The Computer Connection; The Deceivers; The Demolished Man novel, serialized in Galaxy, Nebula; Golem100 novel, 1980, http://www.catch22.com/SF/ARB/SFB/Bester,Alfred.php3

Warning : include(/home/espana/public_html/php/sf.php) [ function.include ]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /web/home/espana/public_html/SFAuthors/SFB/Bester,Alfred.php3 on line Warning function.include ]: Failed opening '/home/espana/public_html/php/sf.php' for inclusion (include_path='/web/lib/php:.') in /web/home/espana/public_html/SFAuthors/SFB/Bester,Alfred.php3 on line Alfred Bester (b.1913-d.1987) Other Bester links: the iddividual: an Alfred Bester Site Bio: Hugo award winner 1953. wrote radio scripts, comics. Editor of Holiday Magazine . Was initially chosen to write the screenplay for Superman but was later rejected as not well known enough. Worked on Genius Jones, Green Lantern (wrote the original Green Lantern Oath) and created such supervillains as Solomon Grundy, Vandal Savage. Bibliography: An Alfred Bester Omnibus The Computer Connection The Deceivers The Demolished Man novel, serialized in Galaxy , Nebula The Light Fantastic Starlight: The Great Short Fiction of Alfred Bester sh.sts. 1976

20. Alfred Bester (Overall, alfred bester had an exceedingly bad effect on me.) And now even thoughts weren t safe. Tension, apprehension and dissension. http://www.ansible.co.uk/writing/bester.html

On Alfred Bester Dave Langford babbles about a favourite author who is also mentioned elsewhere on this site: briefly here and in this SFX Book Club feature on The Stars My Destination Breakthroughs Tenser, said the Tensor. Tenser, said the Tensor. Tension, apprehension and dissension have begun. I was much impressed by the mind-block jingle used by Ben Reich in The Demolished Man to screen his thoughts from telepathic police. I was instantly convinced that emanations from my own sewer-of-consciousness must be steaming out into enemy airspace. I was about thirteen.... The gangling Langford of those days was morbidly keen on personal privacy in which to do alienated, existential things like reading SF magazines. Privacy was in short supply: even after midnight, parental shock-troops would burst through the door to confiscate one's torch and battered old serialization of The Stars My Destination . (Overall, Alfred Bester had an exceedingly bad effect on me.) And now even thoughts weren't safe. Tension, apprehension and dissension....

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