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Thread: Science Fiction’s Dark Star: Alfred Bester at 100

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1 posted on 03/02/2015 3:26:07 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: Borges; DollyCali; Perdogg

ping


2 posted on 03/02/2015 3:26:40 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

never heard of it.


3 posted on 03/02/2015 4:21:00 PM PST by MisterArtery
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To: EveningStar

One of my favorites.


5 posted on 03/02/2015 4:30:26 PM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP for A Slower Handbasket)
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To: EveningStar

Gully Foyle is my name
and Terra is my station.
Deep space is my dwelling place,
the stars my destination.


7 posted on 03/02/2015 4:35:33 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: EveningStar

One of the all-time great stories - how in heaven’s name can such brilliance be transcribed to film?


8 posted on 03/02/2015 4:44:19 PM PST by TrueKnightGalahad (When you're racing, it's life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.)
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To: EveningStar
Queequeg in space!


10 posted on 03/02/2015 4:45:51 PM PST by mylife
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To: EveningStar

In ways a ripoff, er, adaptation of the Dumas’ Count of Monte Cristo, but still a great book. Really, tho - who will believe a man can jaunte through space


15 posted on 03/02/2015 5:29:30 PM PST by Smedley (It's a sad day for American capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over Central Park)
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To: stop_fascism; ApplegateRanch; Bloody Sam Roberts; Lurking Libertarian

Alfred Bester ping


16 posted on 03/02/2015 5:46:41 PM PST by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

One of the greatest scifi novels ever written. I bet hollywood really f***s it up.


17 posted on 03/02/2015 8:20:05 PM PST by Seruzawa (All those memories will be lost,in time, like tears in rain.)
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To: EveningStar
I'm going to have to put it on my "To Read" list.

Can't say that I've read much Bester. Whatever I have read, I either don't remember the title, or don't remember it was his. (And I would've read it a looooong time ago.)

19 posted on 03/03/2015 12:06:37 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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