Vintage Treasures: Starlight: The Great Short Fiction of Alfred Bester
Key passage that makes me sad: "I know. You’ve never heard of Alfred Bester. Perhaps his greatest novel — The Stars My Destination (1956) — is in print only in an expensive trade paperback edition from a small press, and his classic The Demolished Man (1952), the first novel to win a Hugo Award, is out of print altogether."
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And then consider Damon Knight. And how many Fritz Leiber books are in print. And Algis Budrys. And Joanna Russ. And...
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