Bester's later novels are considerably less important-with these two books, he helped shape both the New Wave and cyberpunk. 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.

Tiger, Tiger is also an inventive working through of a conceit from bastardized Freudianism-Foyle is at one level a symbol for the unbridled id. Alfred Bester was an American science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor and scripter for comic strips and comic books. 22.39 8 Used from 11.00 15 New from 20.56. Left to die in a shattered spaceship, illiterate spacehand Gully Foyle swears vengeance and remakes himself as master criminal and dilettante socialite, and changes the worlds around him in the process. The other is Tiger,Tiger (aka The Stars My Destination) if The Demolished Man is Crime and Punishment with telepaths, Tiger,Tiger is The Count of Monte Cristo with teleportation and interplanetary war. Truly one of Alfred Besters most vulgar works but also one of his best ones. The Demolished Man is a psychological thriller in which a tycoon decides to kill a rival and get away with it in an era in which telepathic cops catch every serious criminal both in its sparkling portrayal of multi-person mind-to-mind dialogue, and in its narrative trickery, the story of Ben Reich and his nemesis Lincoln Powell is one of sf's most effective contributions to the noir thriller. With two novels and a handful of short stories, most of them written in a short burst in the 1950s, Alfred Bester opened out the possibilities of the sf field both as vehicle for story-telling and as a way of looking darkly at the world and human psychology.

Γκόλεμ 100, Τόμος Α' by Alfred Bester