Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 19:37:05 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Also By Mr Bester; was: Re: What I can't read
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

>I hope I'm not the only person here who reveres Mr. Bester and thinks =
that
>The Stars My Destination is one of the finest works of fiction ever =
produced...
>
>Barry
>
>At 06:27 PM 3/22/02, Candy said (remarkably!)
>>I found Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination to be pathetic.  So
>>pathetic that I had to memorize the author's name and the book's title =
in
>>order to keep from, once again, picking it up and starting to read it.  =
I'd
>>get about halfway into it and go, "Oh.  This is *that* book." and put it
>>down again.
>
>Barry L. Newton, Ashton Computing & Management Services
>bnewton at ashcomp.com
>

"In brightest day, in blackest night,
no evil shall escape my sight!
Let those who worship evil's might,
beware my power.. Green Lantern's light!"
-Alan Scott, the Golden Age Green Lantern
[1943, credited to Alfred Bester]
(from: http://www.glcorps.org/oa-oath.html )

In all of the histories of the genre I've read (not that I've read 'em =
all) Bester is genrally considered to be one of the Giants of the field.

He was a Guest of sort (I believe) at a Philcon.  He was  . . . debonair.  =
He seemed almost likea tourist from another time enjoying himself with the =
natives.

mjw