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Alfred Bester
Author: Carolyn Wendell
language: en
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Release Date: 1982-01-01
A chronology, study, annotated bibliography of Bester's works, both within and outside of the science fiction genre.
Alfred Bester’s The Stars My Destination
In this comprehensive study of The Stars My Destination, D. Harlan Wilson makes a case for the continued significance of Alfred Bester’s SF masterwork, exploring its distinctive style, influences, intertextuality, affect, and innovation as well as its extensive metafictional properties. In Stars, Bester established himself as a son of the pulp-SF and high-modernist writers that preceded him and a forefather to the New Wave and cyberpunk movements that followed his lead. Wilson’s study depicts Bester as an SF insider as much as an outlier, writing in the spirit of the genre but breaking with the fixation on hard science in favor of psychological interiority, literary experimentation, and adult themes. The book combines close-readings of the novel with broader concerns about contemporary media, technoculture, and the current state of SF itself. In Wilson’s view, SF is a moribund artform, and Stars foresaw the inevitable science fictionalization of our benighted world. With scholarly lucidity and precision, Wilson shows us that Stars pointed the way to what we have (un)become.
Summary of Junichi Saga & John Bester's Confessions of a Yakuza
Author: Everest Media,
language: en
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Release Date: 2022-05-15T22:59:00Z
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Ijichi Eiji’s world is alien from Japanese norms, but it reveals so much of the average man’s thoughts and feelings. His book has been translated into English and is available worldwide.