Book thread! So what's everyone been reading? I've finished Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man, and The Stars My Destination. These are both early 1950's novels, and emerging from the horrors of WW2 ...

Alfred Bester was one of the pioneers of science fiction, a leading light back when it was the new literature of ideas and imagination. He died in 1987, with Psychoshop half-finished; Roger Zelazny, ...

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The best science fiction isn't necessarily about technology or space travel or aliens, but about ideas. Although these classic novels are some 40 years old, Alfred Bester's first two novels uphold ...

Have a free listen to ‘Stamped for Murder,’ the first episode of ‘The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe‘ from October 20th, 1950. This episode was written by science fiction master Alfred Bester, starring ...