Apparently, there is an Alfred Bester I have never read. I thought The Deceivers was another title for The Computer Connection. But it's late Bester and late Bester is ... not good.
Though when asked to name his favourite story for a collection, he said "none", and that they were all failures. In the collection, edited by Mills, I think, he instead gave some interesting comments on his writing process, with excerpts from his commonplace book, including material much later included in golem**100.
I believe there's also a novel based on advertising, but I've never tracked it down.
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Date: 2020-12-19 08:05 pm (UTC)Though when asked to name his favourite story for a collection, he said "none", and that they were all failures. In the collection, edited by Mills, I think, he instead gave some interesting comments on his writing process, with excerpts from his commonplace book, including material much later included in golem**100.
I believe there's also a novel based on advertising, but I've never tracked it down.
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