Alfred Bester

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En el siglo XXV, cuando las técnicas de teleportación han cambiado de forma radical la sociedad de la Tierra, un hombre motivado por pasiones extremas emprende un carrera desesperada por cambiarse a si mismo. Gully Foyle fue abandonado a su suerte y logro sobrevivir milagrosamente a una situacion sin esperanzas; desde entonces ha venido acumulando riquezas y poder con un unico objetivo: vengarse.Las estrellas, mi destino es uno de los eternos favoritos de la ciencia ficcion, una novela de cabecera para cada generacion de lectores que ha existido desde que se publico en los años cincuenta. Un libro pirotecnico, intenso y rebosante de ideas al que se vuelve, una y otra vez, con placer renovado.

Érase una vez un Sistema Solar poblado por bribones... Una socarrona radiografía social de un maestro de la ciencia ficción Rogue Winter, producto de un enigmático experimento al que fue sometido durante su gestacion, inquisidor y futuro rey de los maories de Ganimedes, posee una capacidad unica: la de captar pautas sinergicas en todo lo que lo rodea. Cuando desaparece su amante, un hada de Titania, se infiltra en las redes japochinas de Triton del contrabando de meta para localizarla... y se embarca en una odisea de vertigo. En /Los impostores/, una comedia de intriga en clave espacial a caballo entre la farsa y la picaresca, Bester despliega su lucidez y su ingenio a la hora de caricaturizar las tensiones sociales de los albores de los ochenta. Una muestra mas del volcan creativo besteriano, del que brota incontenible un aluvion de imagenes delirantes. Alfred Bester forma parte de ese puñado de escritores que inventaron la ciencia ficcion contemporanea. HARRY HARRISONLo encontraras en: http://www.libreriacentral.com/ProductDetails.aspx?pId=9788496208810 Libreria Central, SA

Alfred Bester, largamente famoso como autor de algunos de los cuentos más originales y sorprendentes de la ciencia-ficción, ha logrado en ésta su primera novela la más notable fusión de la CF con la novela policial... No hay misterio en lo que se refiere a quien, mientras asistimos a las minuciosas maniobras criminales del megalomaniaco personaje del siglo veinticuatro, pero el motivo es un enigma intensamente provocativo, para el lector, para el telepatico prefecto de policia de la division psicopatica que actua como detective...y hasta para el mismo criminal. El misterioso problema, legitimamente planteado y resuelto en el seno de una opulenta historia imaginativa donde abundan los mas extraños aparatos, culmina en una esplendida secuencia de puro terror psicologico.

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En el siglo xxv, cuando las técnicas de teleportación han cambiado de forma radical la sociedad de la Tierra, un hombre motivado por pasiones extremas emprende un carrera desesperada por cambiarse a si mismo. Gully Foyle fue abandonado a su suerte y logro sobrevivir milagrosamente a una situacion sin esperanzas; desde entonces ha venido acumulando riquezas y poder con un unico objetivo: vengarse. Las estrellas, mi destino es uno de los eternos favoritos de la ciencia ficcion, una novela de cabecera para cada generacion de lectores que ha existido desde su publicacion original en los años cincuenta. Un libro pirotecnico, intenso y rebosante de ideas al que se vuelve, una y otra vez, con placer renovado.

"Dazzlement and enchantment are Besters methods. His stories never stand still a moment."Damon Knight, author of Why Do Birds Alfred Bester took science fiction into hyperdrive, endowing it with a wit, speed, and narrative inventiveness that have inspired two generations of writers. And nowhere is Bester funnier, speedier, or more audacious than in these seventeen short storiestwo of them previously unpublishedthat have now been brought together in a single volume for the first time. Read about the sweet-natured young man whose phenomenal good luck turns out to be disastrous for the rest of humanity. Find out why tourists are flocking to a hellish little town in a post-nuclear Kansas. Meet a warlock who practices on Park Avenue and whose potions comply with the Pure Food and Drug Act. Make a deal with the Devilbut not without calling your agent. Dazzling, effervescent, sexy, and sardonic, Virtual Unrealities is a historic collection from one of science fictions true pathbreakers. "Alfred Bester was one of the handful of writers who invented modern science fiction. "Harry Harrison Alfred Bester (1913-1987) was the author of two of science fictions seminal works, The Demolished Man and The Stars My Destination. He also wrote some fast-moving, sizzling short stories that were very highly regarded; many of them are included in the 17 stories showcased in Virtual Realities; two were never before published. Highlights include "Disappearing Act," in which shell-shocked soldiers vanish from their hospital ward; "Hobsons Choice," in which a statistician uncovers a disturbing population trend in post-nuclear Kansas; "Time Is the Traitor," wherein powerful business people manipulate their most valuable consultant; and "The Devil Without Glasses," a conspiracy tale with an X-Files feel. The science fiction and literary classic "Fondly Fahrenheit" stars wealthy Vandaleur and his mad android who has an unfortunate habit of turning murderous when the temperature gets too hot... All reet!

#4 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written. The first Hugo Award winner for best novel in 1953."One of the all-time classics of science fiction."Isaac Asimov "Besters two superb books have stood the test of time. For nearly sixty years theyve held their place on everybodys list of the ten greatest sf novels" Robert Silverberg In a world policed by telepaths, Ben Reich plans to commit a crime that hasnt been heard of in 70 years: murder. Thats the only option left for Reich, whose company is losing a 10-year death struggle with rival DCourtney Enterprises. Terrorized in his dreams by The Man With No Face and driven to the edge after DCourtney refuses a merger offer, Reich murders his rival and bribes a high-ranking telepath to help him cover his tracks. But while police prefect Lincoln Powell knows Reich is guilty, his telepaths knowledge is a far cry from admissible evidence. Alfred Bester was among the first important authors of contemporary science fiction. His passionate novels of worldly adventure, high intellect, and tremendous verve, The Stars My Destination and the Hugo Award winning The Demolished Man, established Bester as a s.f. grandmaster, a reputation that was ratified by the Science Fiction Writers of America shortly before his death. Bester also was an acclaimed journalist for Holiday magazine, a reviewer for the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and even a writer for Superman. ALFRED BESTER was born in New York in 1913. After attending the University of Pennsylvania, he sold several stories to Thrilling Wonder Stories in the early 194s. He then embarked on a career as a scripter for comics, radio, and television, where he worked on such classic characters as Superman, Batman, Nick Carter, Charlie Chan, Tom Corbett, and the Shadow. In the 195s, he returned to prose, publishing several short stories and two brilliant, seminal works, The Demolished Man (which was the first winner of the Hugo Award for Best Novel) and The Stars My Destination, In the late 1950s, he wrote travel articles for Holiday magazine, and eventually became their Senior Literary Editor, keeping the position until the magazine folded in the 197s. In 1974, he once again came back to writing science fiction with the novels The Computer Connection, Golem1, and The Deceivers, and numerous short stories. A collection of his short stories, Virtual Unrealities, was published in 1997. After being a New Yorker all his life, he died in Pennsylvania in 1987, but not before he was honored by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers of America with a Grandmaster Award.

Lights. Camera. Madness. In the glittering chaos of 1950s live television, star-studded dreams and nervous breakdowns go hand in hand-and no one knows this better than television writer Boyd Lindstrom. When Boyd wakes up in a Manhattan hotel room, hungover and with no memory of the past three days, he thinks its just another rough night. But when he discovers his apartment has been rented to strangers, his wife has disappeared, and everyone in his life insists hes a stranger too... Boyd realizes hes not just forgotten something-hes been erased. With the same razor-sharp wit and psychological bite that made The Demolished Man a sci-fi classic, Alfred Bester plunges into a noir-tinged mystery of identity, paranoia, and the manic pace of mid-century media. Who He? is a fast-paced descent into a world where reality is up for grabs and the only thing more dangerous than losing your mind... is finding out whos behind it. A forgotten gem from a Grand Master of science fiction-equal parts mind-bending thriller and scathing satire.

N.º 4 de la serie Millennium SF Masterworks, una colección de las mejores obras de ciencia ficción jamás escritas."Uno de los clásicos indiscutibles de la ciencia ficción."—Isaac Asimov"Las dos magní