Alfred Bester ( Modern Masters of Science Fiction )

Publication series ： Modern Masters of Science Fiction

Author： Jad Smith

Publisher： University of Illinois Press‎

Publication year： 2016

E-ISBN: 9780252099076

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780252040634

P-ISBN(Hardback): 9780252082139

Subject： I06 Literature, Literature Appreciation

Keyword：文学评论、文学欣赏

Language： ENG

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Description

Alfred Bester's classic short stories and the canonical novel The Stars My Destination made him a science fiction legend. Fans and scholars praise him as a genre-bending pioneer and cyberpunk forefather. Writers like Neil Gaiman and William Gibson celebrate his prophetic vision and stylistic innovations. Jad Smith traces the career of the unlikeliest of SF icons. Winner of the first Hugo Award for The Demolished Man , Bester also worked in comics, radio, and TV, and his intermittent SF writing led some critics to brand him a dabbler. In the 1960s, however, New Wave writers championed his work, and his reputation grew. Smith follows Bester's journey from consummate outsider to an artist venerated for foundational works that influenced the New Wave and cyberpunk revolutions. He also explores the little-known roots of a wayward journey fueled by curiosity, disappointment with the SF mainstream, and an artist's determination to go his own way.

Chapter

Cover

Title page

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Alfred Bester: The Insider’s Outsider

Chapter 1. Beginnings Early Life and First Stories

Chapter 2. Of Things to Come: The Astounding and Unknown Stories

Chapter 3. Comics, Radio, and the Return to SF

Chapter 4. The Eureka Years

Chapter 5. Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright

Chapter 6. Hiatus and Search for a New Style

Conclusion

An Alfred Bester Bibliography

Notes

Bibliography of Secondary Sources

Index

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