Modern Masters of Science Fiction

Name: Modern Masters of Science Fiction
Brand: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
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By: Jad Smith

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14 December 2016

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No. of Pages
216

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22.9 x 15.2 x 2

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Alfred Bester's classic short stories and the canonical novel The Stars My Destination made him a science fiction legend. Fans and scholars praise him as a genre-bending pioneer and cyberpunk forefather. Writers like Neil Gaiman and William Gibson celebrate his prophetic vision and stylistic innovations.

Jad Smith traces the career of the unlikeliest of SF icons. Winner of the first Hugo Award for The Demolished Man, Bester also worked in comics, radio, and TV, and his intermittent SF writing led some critics to brand him a dabbler. In the 1960s, however, New Wave writers championed his work, and his reputation grew. Smith follows Bester's journey from consummate outsider to an artist venerated for foundational works that influenced the New Wave and cyberpunk revolutions. He also explores the little-known roots of a wayward journey fueled by curiosity, disappointment with the SF mainstream, and an artist's determination to go his own way.

Industry Reviews

"With this book Professor Smith has made another lively contribution to understanding science fiction and its development, proving that an academic and scholarly overview can also be of interest and value to the 'fan'."--Camera Obscura

"Jad Smith's work is a seminal study of Alfred Bester, given its close, extended readings of the author's whole oeuvre, with a duly pronounced emphasis on Bester's critically overlooked masterworks of The Demolished Man (1954) and The Stars, My Destination (1956)."--SFRA Review

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