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2 unusual facts about Alfred Bester


NBC Sunday Showcase

For the October 18 telecast of Murder and the Android, Alfred Bester scripted a teleplay adaptation of his cyber-crime story "Fondly Fahrenheit," first published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (August 1954).

Skoptsy

The Stars My Destination - science fiction novel by Alfred Bester features a futuristic version of the Skoptsy sect, in which members have all sensory nerves severed.


Fiction Illustrated

Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination as a planned two-volume graphic novel, illustrated by Howard Chaykin, Putnam/Berkley, 1978.

Five Serpent's Teeth

At the special show in London at the Gibson Guitar Studios, Matt Drake revealed the title to be from Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man on which the meaning of Evile's "Now Demolition" is also based.

Murder and the Android

Murder and the Android was a television movie based on Fondly Fahrenheit, a 1954 story by Alfred Bester.


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