Improbable people and zany machines are introduced in this collection of nine lighthearted tales

Cosmic Laughter; Science Fiction for the Fun of It

Alfred Bester

Ben BOVA

Norman Spinrad

Henry Kuttner

Thomas N. Scortia

Damon Knight

Andrew J. Offutt

Terry Carr

Children's Books

Henry Holt Co.

Pan, 1977. British mass market paperback. Alfred Bester was one of the best SF authors to emerge post- WWII, and this collection of some of his shorter works will delight the reader. Includes: Time Is the Traitor (1953); The Men Who Murdered Mohammed (1958); Out of This World (1964); The Pi Man (1959); The Flowered Thundermug (1964); Will You Wait? (1959); They Don't Make Life Like They Used To (1963).

The Dark Side of the Earth

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Pan Books

The Demolished Man (Penguin Science Fiction)

Penguin

This novel, also published under the title The Stars My Destination, tells the dark story of shipwrecked Gully Foyle. After a spaceship passes him by, he is consumed by vengeance, manages to make it to a nearby society and begins a strange journey. This story has been both highly praised and criticized. It is considered the precursor to the cyberpunk genre of the 80s.

Tiger! Tiger!

Religion & Spirituality

New Age & Spirituality

The Demolished Man

Genre Fiction

Penguin books, limited

Pan, 1969. British mass market paperback. Alfred Bester was one of the best SF authors to emerge post- WWII, and this collection of some of his shorter works will delight the reader. Includes: Time Is the Traitor (1953); The Men Who Murdered Mohammed (1958); Out of This World (1964); The Pi Man (1959); The Flowered Thundermug (1964); Will You Wait? (1959); They Don't Make Life Like They Used To (1963).

The Deceivers

Classics

Pan.

Extro

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

METHUEN

Marooned in outer space after an attack on his ship, Nomad, Gulliver Foyle lives to obsessively pursue the crew of a rescue vessel that had intended to leave him to die. 197 pages.

The Stars My Destination (Signet SF, S1931)

New American Library

Signet Books, 1964. Mass market paperback original, first printing stated. Alfred Bester was one of the best SF authors to emerge post- WWII, and this collection of some of his shorter works will delight the reader. Includes: Time Is the Traitor (1953); The Men Who Murdered Mohammed (1958); Out of This World (1964); The Pi Man (1959); The Flowered Thundermug (1964); Will You Wait? (1959); They Don't Make Life Like They Used To (1963).

The Dark Side of the Earth (Signet SF, D2474)

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