LEADER 04526nam 2200553 450 001 9910792689103321 005 20230124193953.0 010 $a0-252-09907-9 035 $a(CKB)3710000000971636 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4792691 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001724025 035 $a(OCoLC)957264942 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse57006 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4792691 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11333903 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000971636 100 $a20170210h20162016 uy 1 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aAlfred Bester /$fJad Smith 210 1$aUrabana, Chicago, Springfield, [Illinois] : University of Illinois Press, c2016 :$cUniversity of Illinois Press,$d2016. 210 4$dİ2016 215 $a1 online resource (169 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aModern Masters of Science Fiction 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2016. 311 $a0-252-08213-3 311 $a0-252-04063-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction 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. 330 $a"Like Asimov and Heinlein, Alfred Bester (Dec 18, 1913-Sep 30, 1987) began his career in science fiction as a pulp fictioneer and finished it as a Grand Master, but he followed a far more curious path than either of his big-name contemporaries. He focused on SF intermittently during his nearly fifty years as a professional writer, maintaining few ties with the field. He started his career in SF and finished it there as well, but in between, he kept to a pattern of voyage and return, putting SF aside for two extended intervals, first to script comics, radio mysteries, and teleplays and later to work as a magazine columnist and editor. Bester's reputation today rests primarily on a handful of widely reprinted stories and two landmark novels from his most productive period in the 1950's: The Demolished Man (1953), an SF-murder mystery hybrid that won the first-ever Hugo Award for Best Novel, and The Stars My Destination (1957), a sleekly savage and adult space opera that gained a cult following among readers. For most of his career, Bester's reputation remained that of an outsider. But over time and partly in his absence, Bester's reputation grew into more than just that of an outsider. Movers and shakers among later generations of writers--Michael Moorcock, Samuel R. Delany, Harlan Ellison, M. John Harrison, William Gibson, and Bruce Sterling, among them--came to regard Bester's work as pivotal to SF's development"--$cProvided by publisher. 330 $a"Alfred Bester's classic short stories and the canonical novel The Stars My Destination made him a science fiction legend. Fans and scholars praise him as a genre-bending pioneer and cyberpunk forefather. Writers like Neil Gaiman and William Gibson celebrate his prophetic vision and stylistic innovations. Jad Smith traces the career of the unlikeliest of SF icons. Winner of the first Hugo Award for The Demolished Man , Bester also worked in comics, radio, and TV, and his intermittent SF writing led some critics to brand him a dabbler. In the 1960's, however, New Wave writers championed his work, and his reputation grew. Smith follows Bester's journey from consummate outsider to an artist venerated for foundational works that influenced the New Wave and cyberpunk revolutions. He also explores the little-known roots of a wayward journey fueled by curiosity, disappointment with the SF mainstream, and an artist's determination to go his own way"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aModern masters of science fiction. 606 $aScience fiction, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAuthors, American$y20th century$vBiography 615 0$aScience fiction, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAuthors, American 676 $a813.54 686 $aLIT004260$aBIO007000$2bisacsh 700 $aSmith$b Jad$01481337 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792689103321 996 $aAlfred Bester$93698218 997 $aUNINA