Alfred Bester Books In Order

The Demolished Man

In the year 2301, guns are only museum pieces and benign telepaths sweep the minds of the populace to detect crimes before they happen. In 2301 murder is virtually impossible, but one man is about to change that…
Ben Reich, a psychopathic business magnate, has devised the ultimate scheme to eliminate the competition and destroy the order of his society. The Demolished Man is a masterpiece of imaginative suspense, set in a superbly imagined world in which everything has changed except the ancient instinct for murder.

Who He?

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 comedy.

Tiger! Tiger!

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, unbeatable’ James Lovegrove Marooned in outer space after an attack on his ship, Nomad, Gulliver Foyle lives to obsessively pursue the crew of a rescue vessel that had intended to leave him to die. When it comes to pop culture, Alfred Bester 1913 1987 is something of an unsung hero. He wrote radio scripts, screenplays, and comic books in which capacity he created the original Green Lantern Oath. But Bester is best known for his science fiction novels, and The Stars My Destination may be his finest creation. With its sly potshotting at corporate skullduggery, The Stars My Destination seems utterly contemporary, and has maintained its status as an underground classic for fifty years. Bester fans should also note that iPicturebooks has reprinted The Demolished Man, which won the very first Hugo Award in 1953. Alfred Bester was among the first important authors of contemporary science fiction. His passionate novels of worldly adventure, high intellect, and tremendous verve, The Stars My Destination and the Hugo Award winning The Demolished Man, established Bester as a s.f. grandmaster, a reputation that was ratified by the Science Fiction Writers of America shortly before his death. Bester also was an acclaimed journalist for Holiday magazine, a reviewer for the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and even a writer for Superman.

The Computer Connection

A band of immortals recruit a new member, the brilliant Cherokee physicist Sequoya Guess. Dr. Guess, with the group’s help, gains control of Extro, the super computer that controls all mechanical activity on Earth. They plan to rid Earth of political repression and to further Guess’s researches which may lead to a great leap in human evolution to produce a race of supermen. But Extro takes over Guess instead and turns malevolent. The task of the merry band suddenly becomes a fight in deadly earnest for the future of Earth.

Golem 100

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’.

Psychoshop

Half finished upon Bester’s death, and completed by Zelazny, ‘Psychoshop‘ envisions a commercial establishment that attracts customers ranging from Edgar Allan Poe to a sorcerer intent on fabricating the Beast of Revelations.

Virtual Unrealities

‘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 inspired two generations of writers. And nowhere is Bester funnier, speedier, or more audacious than in these seventeen short stories two of them previously unpublished that have now been brought together in a single volume for the first time.

Read about the sweet natured young man whose phenomenal good luck turns out to be disastrous for the rest of humanity. Find out why tourists are flocking to a hellish little town in a post nuclear Kansas. Meet a warlock who practices on Park Avenue and whose potions comply with the Pure Food and Drug Act. Make a deal with the Devil but not without calling your agent. Dazzling, effervescent, sexy, and sardonic, Virtual Unrealities is a historic collection from one of science fiction’s true pathbreakers.

‘Alfred Bester was one of the handful of writers who invented modern science fiction. ‘
Harry Harrison

The Flowered Thundermug

Alfred 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, Edward G. Robinson, and other characters on an adventure beyond our wildest reality!