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Alfred Bester (December 18, 1913 – September 30, 1987) was an American science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor and scriptwriter for comics. He is best remembered for his science fiction, including The Demolished Man, winner of the inaugural Hugo Award in 1953.
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Alfred Bester was a senior Psi Corps officer and one of the more notorious Psi Cops in Level 12 Investigations.
Alfred Bester (born Dec. 18, 1913, New York, N.Y., U.S.—died Oct. 20?, 1987, Doylestown, Pa.) was an innovative American writer of science fiction whose output, though small, was highly influential. Bester attended the University of Pennsylvania (B.A., 1935).
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Alfred Bester was a comic and graphic novel, mystery and thriller, science fiction, and fantasy novelist from New York City. He was born in 1913 to a middle-class and very hardworking shoe salesman that provided a modest living for his family.
(1913-1987) US editor and author, born in New York, a city with which he was always closely associated, his first two sf novels – on which his reputation increasingly depends – both being largely set in a vividly presented future New York.
Alfred Bester was an American science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor and scripter for comic strips and comic books. Though successful in all these fields, he is best remembered for his science fiction, including The Demolished Man, winner of the inaugural Hugo Award in 1953, a story about murder in a future society ...
Alfred Bester was the anomaly. Bester's reputation rests on only a handful of scifi novels—on two really—and some highly regarded but not widely known stories. Yet, his small production is considered seminal for modern SF.
