Redemolished

0-7434-8679-X

Redemolished is a collection of short stories, interviews, and other articles and essays by science fiction author Alfred Bester. Published in 2000 (thirteen years after Bester's death) by iBooks, inc, ISBN 0-7434-8679-X, edited by Richard Raucci.

Redemolished contains the short stories:

  • "The Probable Man"
  • "Hell Is Forever"
  • "The Push of a Finger"
  • "The Roller Coaster"
  • "The Lost Child"
  • "I'll Never Celebrate New Year's Again"
  • "Out of This World"
  • "The Animal Fair"
  • "Something Up There Likes Me"
  • "The Four-Hour Fugue"

It also contains three fictional articles published in Holiday Magazine:

  • "Gourmet Dining in Outer Space"
  • "Place of the Month: The Moon"
  • "The Sun"

and four essays:

  • "Science Fiction and the Renaissance Man", originally delivered as a lecture at the University of Chicago in 1957. The other lecturers included Cyril Kornbluth, Robert A. Heinlein, and Robert Bloch.
  • "A Diatribe Against Science Fiction"
  • "The Perfect Composite Science Fiction Author"
  • "My Affair with Science Fiction"

Also included are interviews with John Huston and Rex Stout, a conversation with Woody Allen, brief articles on Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein, two deleted prologues and an analysis of The Demolished Man, and a memorial for Bester written by Isaac Asimov, with an introduction by Gregory S. Benford.

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Works by Alfred Bester
Novels
Short stories
Collections
  • Starburst (1958)
  • The Dark Side of the Earth (1964)
  • An Alfred Bester Omnibus (1968)
  • Starlight: The Great Short Fiction of Alfred Bester (1976)
  • The Light Fantastic Volume 1: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester (1976)
  • Star Light, Star Bright: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester, Volume 2 (1976)
  • The Light Fantastic Volume 2: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester (1976)
  • Virtual Unrealities (1997)
  • Redemolished (2000)
Non-fiction
  • The Life and Death of a Satellite (1966)