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Star Light, Star Bright (book)
''Star Light, Star Bright'' is the name of a 1976 collection of science fiction short stories by American writer Alfred Bester, first published in 1976. Contents * "Adam and No Eve" * " Time Is the Traitor" * " Oddie And Id" * "Hobson's Choice" * "Star Light, Star Bright" * " They Don't Make Life Like They Used To" * " Of Time and Third Avenue" * "The Pi Man" * "Something Up There Likes Me "Something Up There Likes Me" is a science fiction short story by American writer Alfred Bester. The story was first published in '' Astounding: The John W Campbell Memorial Anthology'' (1973). Plot summary Jake Madigan, an exobiologist, and en ..." External links "Star Light, Star Bright" 1976 short story collections Short story collections by Alfred Bester {{1970s-sf-story-collection-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Bester
Alfred Bester (December 18, 1913 – September 30, 1987) was an American science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor and scripter for comic strips and comic books. He is best remembered for his science fiction, including ''The Demolished Man'', winner of the inaugural Hugo Award in 1953. Science fiction author Harry Harrison wrote, "Alfred Bester was one of the handful of writers who invented modern science fiction." Shortly before his death, the Science Fiction Writers of America (SFWA) named Bester its ninth Grand Master, presented posthumously in 1988. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame inducted him in 2001. Life and career Alfred Bester was born in Manhattan, New York City, on December 18, 1913. His father, James J. Bester, owned a shoe store and was a first-generation American whose parents were both Austrian Jews. Alfred's mother, Belle (née Silverman), was born in Russia and spoke Yiddish as her first language before coming to A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard M
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include "Richie", " Dick", "Dickon", " Dickie", "Rich", "Rick", "Rico", "Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English, German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Catalan "Ricard" and the Italian "Riccardo", among others (see comprehensive variant list below). People named Richard Multiple people with the same name * Richard Andersen (other) * Richard Anderson (other) * Richard Cartwright (other) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, sentient artificial intelligence, cybernetics, certain forms of immortality (like mind uploading), and the singularity. Science fiction predicted several existing inventions, such as the atomic bomb, robots, and borazon, whose names entirely match their fictional predecessors. In addition, science fiction might serve as an outlet to facilitate future scientific and technological innovations. Science fiction can trace its roots to ancient mythology. It is also related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres. Its exact definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Science fiction, in literature, film, television, and other media, has beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, sentient artificial intelligence, cybernetics, certain forms of immortality (like mind uploading), and the singularity. Science fiction predicted several existing inventions, such as the atomic bomb, robots, and borazon, whose names entirely match their fictional predecessors. In addition, science fiction might serve as an outlet to facilitate future scientific and technological innovations. Science fiction can trace its roots to ancient mythology. It is also related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres. Its exact definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Science fiction, in literature, film, television, and other media, has beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam And No Eve
Adam; el, Ἀδάμ, Adám; la, Adam is the name given in Book of Genesis, Genesis 1-5 to the first human. Beyond its use as the name of the first man, ''adam'' is also used in the Bible as a pronoun, individually as "a human" and in a collective sense as "mankind". tells of God's creation of the world and its creatures, including ''adam'', meaning humankind; in God forms "Adam", this time meaning a single male human, out of "the dust of the ground", places him in the Garden of Eden, and forms a woman, Eve, as his helpmate; in Adam and Eve eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge and God condemns Adam to labour on the earth for his food and to return to it on his death; deals with the birth of Adam's sons, and lists his descendants from Seth to Noah. The Genesis creation myth was adopted by both Christianity and Islam, and the name of Adam accordingly appears in the Christian scriptures and in the Quran. He also features in subsequent folkloric and mystical elaborations i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Time Is The Traitor
"Time Is the Traitor" is a science fiction short story by American writer Alfred Bester, originally published in '' The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction'' in September, 1953. It is included in the Bester collections ''The Dark Side of the Earth'' (1964), ''Star Light, Star Bright'' (1976) and ''Virtual Unrealities'' (1997) and has been extensively anthologized. Synopsis John Strapp is a business consultant whose savant-like intuitive genius makes him so valuable that his support staff indulges all his eccentricities — including homicidal fugue states. Critical response The story was selected for ''Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 15 (1953)'' ( DAW books, 1986) and for '' The Best Science Fiction Stories: 1954'' (Fredrick Fell, 1954), as well as for The NESFA Core Reading List of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Rich Horton described "Time Is the Traitor" as "glorious" and "madly odd". Fiona Kelleghan considered that John Strapp's name ""suggests both punishmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oddie And Id
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People called Oddie include: * Bill Oddie (born 1941), member of The Goodies, ornithologist and television presenter *Henry Oddie (1815–1869), English lawyer, landowner and cricketer *Lily Oddie (1937–2021), provincial politician in Ontario, Canada *Tasker Oddie (1870–1950) Governor of Nevada and United States Senator See also *Oddi (surname) *Oddy Oddy is a surname. Notable people with the name include: *Christine Oddy Christine Margaret Oddy (20 September 1955 – 27 July 2014) was an English politician. Born and brought up in Coventry, she was educated at Stoke Park School, Universit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hobson's Choice (short Story)
A Hobson's choice is one that must be taken or left. Hobson's Choice may also refer to: Places * Hobson's Choice (Woodbine, Maryland), an historic home in Howard County, Maryland, US * Hobson's Choice (Alberta, Virginia), an historic home in Brunswick County, Virginia, US Arts and entertainment * ''Hobson's Choice'' (play), by Harold Brighouse (1915), which has been adapted numerous times: ** ''Hobson's Choice'' (1920 film), a silent film directed by Percy Nash ** ''Hobson's Choice'' (1931 film), directed by Thomas Bentley ** ''Hobson's Choice'' (1954 film), directed by David Lean ** ''Walking Happy,'' a 1966 Broadway musical by Jimmy Van Heusen ** ''Hobson's Choice'', a 1983 television-movie directed by Gilbert Cates ** ''Hobson's Choice'', a 1989 ballet by David Bintley Literature * "Hobson's Choice", a 1952 short story written by Alfred Bester * ''The Terminal Experiment ''The Terminal Experiment'' is a science fiction novel by Canadians, Canadian writer Robert J. Saw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Light, Star Bright (short-story)
"Star Light, Star Bright" is a science fiction short story by American writer Alfred Bester, first published in 1953. Plot summary Marion Perkin Warbeck, referred to as "the doomed man", has discovered children with supernatural powers, which he calls "genius". He is pursuing one Stuart Buchanan, a ten-year-old boy who he believes can lead him to these children. Warbeck is a school principal who read an essay by Stuart that describes his friends inventing gadgets beyond known science. When Warbeck attempted to find Stuart, not only had the boy disappeared but all records about him had vanished, and nobody who was closely involved with him remembered anything about him. Warbeck tries to solve the mystery by going door to door in Stuart's old neighborhood, talking to people named "Buchanan" under various pretexts to avoid drawing attention to himself. He is waylaid by a gang that runs a fraud on people with that name, and has to explain his reasons to them to save his life. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
They Don't Make Life Like They Used To
In Modern English, ''they'' is a third-person pronoun relating to a grammatical subject. Morphology In Standard Modern English, ''they'' has five distinct word forms: * ''they'': the nominative (subjective) form * ''them'': the accusative (objective, called the ' oblique'.) and a non-standard determinative form. * ''their:'' the dependent genitive (possessive) form * ''theirs'': independent genitive form * ''themselves'': prototypical reflexive form *''themself'': derivative reflexive form (nonstandard; now chiefly used instead of "himself or herself" as a reflexive epicenity for ''they'' in pronominal reference to a singular referent) History Old English had a single third-person pronoun '' hē'', which had both singular and plural forms, and ''they'' wasn't among them. In or about the start of the 13th century, ''they'' was imported from a Scandinavian source (Old Norse ''þeir'', Old Danish, Old Swedish ''þer'', ''þair''), where it was a masculine plural demo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pi Man
"The Pi Man" is a science fiction short story by American writer Alfred Bester. It was first published in ''Fantasy and Science Fiction'', in 1959. Bester subsequently revised it extensively for his 1976 collection ''Star Light, Star Bright'', changing the characters' names, "develop(ing) minor scenes", modifying the typographical "word pictures", and deleting several "stale references to beatnik culture".Alfred Bester' by Jad Smith, published December 1 2016 by University of Illinois Press Synopsis Peter Marko's superhuman abilities of pattern recognition have allowed him to make a fortune in forex arbitrage; however, they also compel him to balance out the behaviors of the rest of the world by constantly performing seemingly-random acts of good and evil. This draws him into conflict, first with his secretary, and then with the FBI. Reception "The Pi Man" was a finalist for the 1960 Hugo Award for Best Short Story. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
