Alfred Bester by Jad Smith PAPERBACK 9780252082139

Alfred Bester\nby Jad Smith\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Jad Smith\nTitle: Alfred Bester\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Biography: writers\nPublisher: MO - University of Illinois Press\nPublication year: 2016\nISBN-13: 9780252082139\nISBN-10: 0252082133\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nAlfred 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 wr.