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Bester, Alfred (Writer)
(1913 - 1987)
Early in Alfred Bester's career he won a Sci Fi short story competition that his friend Robert Heinlein declined to enter. Heinlein instead sold his story to another magazine for $70, where as the prize was only $50.
| Date | Episode | Title | Plot |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976-04-06 | 0463 | Boy Wonder (The) | On a quest to find a missing child named Buchanan, his team slowly disappears one after another. It's no coincidence that... |
| 1976-04-29 | 0478 | Two Plus Two Equals Death | A young architect is pulled into the maddening rush of the circus when he falls for an enchanting dancer. His troubles begin... |
| 1976-05-20 | 0484 | Walking Dead (The) | In the future, all androids are mindless robots with one exception-- Rex, who is the most advanced of his kind. Society is... |
| 1976-07-19 | 0499 | Future Eye | An investigator is sent back in time with a critical mission-- to secure a microchip which has a complete account of the... |
| 1976-09-28 | 0526 | One Girl in a Million | A celebrity business consultant of the future, who makes his living helping corporations make huge decisions, searches the... |
| 1976-11-30 | 0557 | Now You See Them, Now You Don't | The President wants to know the details of time travelers: During World War 5, soldiers experiencing combat fatigue... |
| 1977-01-06 | 0578 | Man from Ultra (The) | Solo Nakeela, an interstellar traveller who cannot know love, accidentally ruins the mind of the great Jeffrey Hale, a... |
4 Responses to Bester, Alfred
One of my favorites!
Bill, 2012-05-15 14:03:20
I learned that Alfred Bester received the first Hugo Award given for his scifi mystery, "The Demolished Man", which I devoured. This morning as I was driving to work, I listened to "The Boy Wonder", first run on CBSRMT on April 6, 1976. Great story! He wrote six other scripts for CBSRMT as well, and I can't wait to check them out . I love it when I "discover" a great writer!
Keith, 2013-01-03 12:19:07
His best known work is "The Stars My Destination" -- a 1950s novella. Stephen King paid homage to Bester with the short story, The Jaunt published in Skeleton Crew. He was a prolific sci-fi writer from the 1950s through the 1970s. I have two of his works in my library -- the aforementioned and The Demolished Man.
Bob, 2013-01-06 08:57:47
Some Alfred Bester trivia... Author and Babylon 5 creator J.M. Strazinski paid tribute to Bester by naming his evil psi-cop character after him. Al Bester was played by Walter Koenig (Star Trek's Chekov).
AZ Mountain Geek, 2013-04-10 01:43:09
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