Alfred Bester (1913–1987)
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Sobre l'autor
Sèrie
Obres de Alfred Bester
The Complete Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination: The Graphic Story Adaptation (1992) 50 exemplars
Alfred Bester 21 exemplars
The Biped, Reegan 11 exemplars
The Die-Hard 5 exemplars
Slaves Of The Life-ray 5 exemplars
Travel Diary {short story} 3 exemplars
A nyikorgó idegen fantasztikus elbeszélések 3 exemplars
Selected Stories of Alfred Bester 2 exemplars
Ms Found in a Champagne Bottle 2 exemplars
The Darkside of the Earth 2 exemplars
Alpha 4 | Superb Science Fiction 2 exemplars
An Alfred Bester Omnibus 2 exemplars
Bester, Alfred - Vase 1 exemplars
فارنهایت واهی 1 exemplars
Metà A metà B — Autor — 1 exemplars
Nearly Complete Short Fiction 1 exemplars
Estrelas: O Meu Destino Livro 1 1 exemplars
Anarsist 1 exemplars
I grandi maestri della fantascienza 2 1 exemplars
The magazine of fantasy and science fiction #7 1 exemplars
Capella XII; Underfollow; The 1 exemplars
Somewhere a Voice 1 exemplars
Obres associades
The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One: The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of All Time (1970) — Col·laborador — 1,863 exemplars
The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology (2009) — Col·laborador — 130 exemplars
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction: A 30-Year Retrospective (1980) — Col·laborador — 86 exemplars
The Best Fantasy Stories from the Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (1985) — Col·laborador — 69 exemplars
Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year Third Annual Collection (1974) — Col·laborador — 56 exemplars
One Lamp: Alternate History Stories from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (2003) — Col·laborador — 45 exemplars
Science Fiction Hall Of Fame Volume Two. The Greatest Science Fiction Stories Of All Time Chosen By The Members Of The… (1970) — Col·laborador, algunes edicions — 35 exemplars
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCVII, No. 3 (March 1977) (1977) — Col·laborador — 28 exemplars
Nature's Warnings: Classic Stories of Eco-Science Fiction (British Library Science Fiction Classics) (2020) — Col·laborador — 24 exemplars
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCIV, No. 5 (January 1975) (1975) — Col·laborador — 23 exemplars
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCIII, No. 4 (June 1974) (1974) — Col·laborador — 22 exemplars
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCIV, No. 3 (November 1974) (1974) — Col·laborador — 22 exemplars
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCIX, No. 6 (June 1979) (1979) — Col·laborador — 21 exemplars
Maailma mielen mukaan : yksitoista tieteisnovellia kolmeltatoista sci-fi -sarjan kirjailijalta (1986) — Col·laborador — 21 exemplars
Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. XCIV, No. 4 (December 1974) (1974) — Col·laborador — 19 exemplars
Van Jules Verne tot Isaac Asimov de vijftig beste science fiction verhalen (1981) — Col·laborador — 15 exemplars
Ten Years of Holiday: Selected by the Editors of Holiday Magazine (1956) — Col·laborador — 8 exemplars
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1951, Vol. 2, No. 5 (1951) — Col·laborador — 7 exemplars
Stella a cinque mondi — Col·laborador — 4 exemplars
SFの評論大全集 (別冊奇想天外 4) — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom oficial
- Bester, Alfred
- Data de naixement
- 1913-12-18
Manhattan, New York, Verenigde Staten - Data de defunció
- 1987-09-30
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA
- Llocs de residència
- New York, New York, USA
- Educació
- University of Pennsylvania
- Professions
- screenwriter
editor - Organitzacions
- Holiday
- Premis i honors
- SFWA Grand Master (1987)
SF Hall Of Fame (Posthumous Inductee, 2001)
Membres
Converses
FEBRUARY READ - SPOILERS - The Stars My Destination a The Green Dragon (març 2014)
FEBRUARY READ - NO SPOILERS - The Stars My Destination a The Green Dragon (febrer 2014)
Ressenyes
Llistes
Favourite Books (1)
Best Dystopias (1)
1950s (1)
Fiction For Men (1)
Unread books (1)
Science Fiction (1)
SF Masterworks (2)
Read (2)
Solar System (1)
Must read (1)
Read These Too (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 81
- També de
- 114
- Membres
- 15,664
- Popularitat
- #1,451
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 348
- ISBN
- 224
- Llengües
- 17
- Preferit
- 85
First the good things. This is an action psychedelic story that I would (to be honest) expect from Philip K Dick. Story is set in far future where humans have evolved in a way they are capable of physically jaunting - jumping to remote location using mere thought. This transformed the entire world in a way that for example actual locations of buildings are no longer relevant so buildings just pop up wherever builders want it. With this you would think that society is also advanced, right? Well, it is not. World is pretty much the same. Corporations are de facto rulers of the world and those that do not fit are left wandering space in hippy-like communes, left alone until they find themselves on the path of corpo's. Rich and influential enjoy in the old technology (hipsters anyone?) because jaunting and entire moderna is soooo boring. Of course they use every means of protection available (personal armies and armed ships) but they like to enjoy in the sophisticated things of the past. This is also time where soldiers and mercenaries get sub-dermal enhancements, cybernetic implants and get hypno-therapy conditioning to act as sleeping agents. People are very deadly in this future and depending on the situation sleeping agents are all around just waiting for key words to get triggered (Treadstone anyone?). So as you can see this is very rich world, miles away from our own and yet so close and familiar. People still hunger for power and they are ready to do anything to rule over others.
Now the weird. Main character, Gully Foyle is a complete anachronism in his time. In all honesty he would be anachronism in any time outside the early Medieval times. He is so low in society that he is basically just barely alive. No initiative, no ambition, nothing but sheer physical strength but even this is powered down that for everyone else Gully is a person so bland and unremarkable that you would not give him any notice, shadow, grey man. Stuck doing a very arduous job he gets fired up by that ancient, ever present and potent force - thirst for revenge. This most base force will force him to change, to improve himself and bring his vengeance to people responsible. Foyle's very evolution from a drag of society to becoming "illuminated" human, maybe first of many to follow, trailblazer, is what the book is actually about. Foyle does some horrible things, leaves his friends behind, does not care what happens to others as long they are useful for him. But he evolves and becomes better, he transcends his limitations and finally manages to see the future, what in Dune would be called the Golden Path. Now some would find this offending (in this age of never forget and Foyle truly has a record) but last few pages of the novel are very interesting. Should majority be treated like kids and mindless mob by the selected few (kinds sounds contemporary, right?) or left to chose its own path, provided with enough knowledge and facts (now this sounds like utopia, right? imagine world without all the media houses serving the news :) toouuuggghh). Is the future of mankind actual merge of savage and knowledge, man that goes (in a similar way as his biological changes before and after birth) through entire cycle of his social development - from aggressive, barely speaking savage to illuminated human.
And now the not so good. I wont say bad because of the fact that this is 1950's book and majority of SF from that time is inspired by hallucinogenics and drugs and all works from that time in history have that trippy feeling. To say that story line is basically a collection of several story lines running in very weird relative directions is to say the least. Story holes become so obvious at time that characters are unrecognizable just going from one page to next. There is no transition, no interlude, nothing just wham, X is now completely different person. If you are persistent person this can be easily overcome but for others this will be a rather difficult book to read. Weirdly though story is rather fluid even with this structure. Author truly knows how to write.
All in all very interesting book, that raises some of the old (and eternal) questions on how should humanity move forward. Whether we like it or not we come across these even today (this year especially).
Recommended to all fans of SF and revenge stories.… (més)