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  • Bibliography:
    17 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1953
  • Latest Book:
    March 2020
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Book List in Order: 17 titles



    • / Science Fiction
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    Winner of the First Hugo Award. #14 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written. Bester's two superb books have stood the test of time. For nearly sixty years they've held their place on everybody's l...



  • #5 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written. Science fiction has only produced a few works of actual genius, and this is one of them-Joe Haldeman Bester at the peak of his powers is, quite simply, ...






  • Alfred Bester's first science fiction novel since The Stars My Destination is a major event--a breathtakingly fast-moving adventure story set in Earth's future A band of immortals--as charming a bunch of eccentrics as you'll ever come across--recruit...



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  • Regina and her bee-ladies, bored members of the elite, while away the idle hours by playing at conjuring the Devil - a game which leads to horrifying consequences. Alfred Bester's other novels include "Tiger, Tiger", "Extro" and "The Demolished Man"....



  • 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 EllisonAlfred Bester took readers where none had gone b...







  • With a title more appropriate to a paperback romance and an author whose reputation was made in an entirely different genre, this posthumous thriller by one of the stellar lights of the golden age of science fiction seems unlikely to find an audience...



  • ?“A dark acid curio, brisk, fast, memorable, a rare improvisational duet from two of our best.” -- Greg Bear“Alfred Bester was one of the handful of writers who invented modern science fiction.” -- Harry Harrison, author of Adventures of the...



    • / Science Fiction
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    Before his untimely death in 1987, Alfred Bester had estabilished himself as one of th world's gretaest science fiction writers. From radio to television, short fiction to full-length novels, he created a body of work that will be continued to be ...



  • Alfred Bester, author of the classic science fiction novels "The Demolished Man" and "The Stars My Destination," also penned this "lost" mainstream novel. "Who He?" is a lunatic variety show.one that started out as a panel quiz show and ended as come...



  • From the author of The Stars My Destination and The Demolished Man comes this science fiction comedy. Bester skewers the 20th Century in this piercing science fictional look back at our age from a remote future. Join the Artsy-Crafty Kid, Jane Tarzan...



  • Take two parts of Beelzebub, two of Israfel, one of Monte Cristo, one of Cyrano, mix violently, season with mystery and you have Mr. Solon Aquila. He is tall, gaunt, sprightly in manner, bitter in expression, and when he laughs his dark eyes turn int...





    • / General Fiction
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    "Dazzlement and enchantment are Bester's methods. His stories never stand still a moment." Damon Knight, author of Why Do Birds Alfred Bester took science fiction into hyperdrive, endowing it with a wit, speed, and narrative inventiveness that have i...


Award-Winning Books by Alfred Bester

The Demolished Man
1953 Hugo Award -- Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Alfred Bester has published 17 books.

Alfred Bester does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Push of a Finger, was published in March 2020.

The first book by Alfred Bester, The Demolished Man, was published in January 1953.

No. Alfred Bester does not write books in series.