Friday, August 08, 2014

Vintage Treasures: Starlight: The Great Short Fiction of Alfred Bester

Vintage Treasures: Starlight: The Great Short Fiction of Alfred Bester  

Key passage that makes me sad:  "I know. You’ve never heard of Alfred Bester. Perhaps his greatest novel — The Stars My Destination (1956) — is in print only in an expensive trade paperback edition from a small press, and his classic The Demolished Man (1952), the first novel to win a Hugo Award, is out of print altogether."

1 comment:

Todd Mason said...

And then consider Damon Knight. And how many Fritz Leiber books are in print. And Algis Budrys. And Joanna Russ. And...