Alfred Bester
Alfred Bester was born in 1913 and died in 1987. The Demolished Man won a Hugo Award Best Novel in 1953 and he received a Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master Award in 1988. Bester's other novels include The Stars My Destination (1956), Extro (1975), Golem100 (1980) and The Deceivers (1982).

Alfred Bester

We tend to forget, as we wait for the latest from our favourite authors, that there are decades worth of science fiction and fantasy literature to choose from. Even the best libraries cannot keep collections extensive enough to include all of the literary treasures out there. Fortunately, publishing houses occasionally offer reprints of the very best (and used bookstores can help you find the rest). The Orion Publishing Group has created the SF Masterworks series, a collection of some of the best SF novels from the last 60 years. Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man (1953) is the 14^th book in the SF Masterworks series.

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