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Alfred Bester war ein US-amerikanischer Science-Fiction-Autor. 1953 gewann er für seinen Roman The Demolished Man den ersten Hugo Award. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. Dezember 1913 – 30. September 1987
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“Gully Foyle is my name
And Terra is my nation.
Deep space is my dwelling place,
The stars my destination.”

Alfred Bester buch The Stars My Destination

Quelle: The Stars My Destination

“The whole point of extravagance is to act like a fool and feel like a fool, but enjoy it.”

Alfred Bester buch The Stars My Destination

Quelle: The Stars My Destination

“Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival.”

Alfred Bester buch The Stars My Destination

Variante: Millions for nonsense, but not one cent for entropy.
Quelle: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 16 (p. 253).

“The mind is the reality. You are what you think.”

Alfred Bester buch The Demolished Man

Quelle: The Demolished Man (1953), Chapter 2 (p. 28).

“He awoke. He was alive. He wasted no time on prayer or thanks but continued the business of survival.”

Alfred Bester buch The Stars My Destination

Quelle: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 1 (p. 19).

“The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.”

Alfred Bester buch The Stars My Destination

Quelle: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 14 (p. 221).

“We always do what’s natural, only sometimes we shouldn’t do it.”

Alfred Bester buch The Stars My Destination

Quelle: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 6 (p. 98).

“Revenge is for dreams…never for reality.”

Alfred Bester buch The Stars My Destination

Quelle: The Stars My Destination (1956), Chapter 12 (p. 194).

“Now, these men weren’t idiots. They were geniuses who paid a high price for their genius because the rest of their thinking was other-world. A genius is someone who travels to truth by an unexpected path. Unfortunately, unexpected paths lead to disaster in everyday life.”

Alfred Bester buch The Men Who Murdered Mohammed

in Hartwell ed. The World Treasury of Science Fiction, p. 268 (originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1958)
The Men Who Murdered Mohammed (1958)

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