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Alfred Bester
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Star Light, Star Bright (Volume II) |
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English |
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Hardcover |
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248 |
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1976 |
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0399118160 |
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Berkley/G. P. Putnam's Sons |
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1st |
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Product Description
olume II
Human passion and fire make Alfred Bester's work uniquely vibrant. His heroes are compulsive misfits, driven by their pain, lust, need, rage and joy -time travelers, genius-children, lunatics, the last men and women. Though Bester creates bizarre and grotesque worlds, he roots his stories in the reality of human culture and human emotions. This is why they are so striking, and so charming and funny.
Here is the concluding volume of Bester's greatest stories, which together with The Light Fantastic con-
tains all his famous works and spans his entire career. Classics like "Adam and No Eve", "Oddy and Id" and "Hobson's Choice" are included, as well as recent masterpieces like "Something Up There Likes Me". And, in a poignant and surprising autobiographical essay, "My Affair With Science Fiction", Alfie Bester talks about working for the pulps and the comics and about traveling through Europe, "waiting for the hysteria to set in so he could write The Stars My Destination. He reveals why he left science fiction and why he is now returning to "my first love."
Star Light, Star Bright demonstrates eloquently Alfred Bester's unique mastery of his art.
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