Awarded Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame (2001).
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Alfred Bester
Alfred Bester was an American science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor, and scriptwriter for comics. He is best remembered for his science fiction, including the novel The Demolished Man, winner of the inaugural Hugo Award in 1953.
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culture · American science fiction author (1913–1987) · novelist · writer · journalist · science fiction writer · screenwriter · also Alfred Bester, Bester
Born 18 December 1913 · Died 30 September 1987 · Q286116
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1988· 3 entries
Awarded Prometheus Award - Hall of Fame for The Stars My Destination (1988).
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Awarded Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award (1988).
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(announced before his 1987 death) and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame inducted him in 2001, its sixth class of two deceased and two living writers
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1987· 1 entry
Died 1987-09-30.
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1985· 1 entry
It was announced that Bester would be a Guest of Honor at the 1987 Worldcon, to be held in Brighton, England
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1979· 1 entry
And rang in the 1980s with the publication of two new novels: Golem100 (1980), and The Deceivers (1981)
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1971· 2 entries
Bester published only one science fiction short story, a 700-word science fiction spoof in the upscale mainstream magazine Status
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Although it was later revived and reformatted by other hands, without Bester's involvement
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1960· 1 entry
The Labor Day weekend in which that Hugo Award was presented (to The Twilight Zone) at the World Science Fiction Convention in Pittsburgh
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1959· 2 entries
The hour-long drama took place in the year 2359 amid futuristic sets designed by Ted Cooper
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Bester adapted his 1954 story "Fondly Fahrenheit" to television as Murder and the Android
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1958· 1 entry
And 1959, including 1958's "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed" and 1959's "The Pi Man", both of which were nominated for Hugo Awards
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1953· 1 entry
Awarded Hugo Award for Best Novel for The Demolished Man (1953).
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1948· 1 entry
Bester also began writing for television, although most of these projects were lesser-known
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1946· 1 entry
Bester turned his attention to radio scripts, after wife Rolly (a busy radio actress) told him that the show Nick Carter, Master Detective was looking for story submissions
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1942· 1 entry
Two of his science fiction editors got work at DC Comics, and invited Bester to contribute to various DC titles
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1935· 1 entry
And, by his own account, was "the most successful member of the fencing team
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1913· 1 entry
Born 1913-12-18.
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