Jad Smith is an associate professor of English at Eastern Illinois University and the author of John Brunner .
"Readable, knowledgeable, insightful, and altogether a
success."--James Gunn
"This volume is a smart, compact examination of a writer who
deserves more attention."--Science Fiction Studies
"With this book Professor Smith has made another lively
contribution to understanding science fiction and its development,
proving that an academic and scholarly overview can also be of
interest and value to the 'fan'."--Camera Obscura
"Alfred Bester is an admirable monograph, in fact the very first on
a grandmaster of the genre who has received shockingly little
academic attention....For anyone approaching the study of Alfred
Bester, Jad Smith's Alfred Bester serves as a commendable and
valuable introduction to the formal qualities of his work."
--Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
"Smith has laid out [Bester's] work with synoptically surgical
precision. . . . remarkable and irreplaceable."--Galaxy's Edge
"Jad Smith's work is a seminal study of Alfred Bester, given its
close, extended readings of the author's whole oeuvre, with a duly
pronounced emphasis on Bester's critically overlooked masterworks
of The Demolished Man (1954) and The Stars, My Destination
(1956)."--SFRA Review
"Jad Smith appears to know everything about Alfred Bester's career,
and there's no career in SF more worth knowing about. On the
strength of two indispensable novels, three unreadable ones, and a
couple of dozen short stories--some of them barely passable, but
others astonishing--Bester electrified SF, fathering the New Wave
and grandfathering cyberpunk. Jad Smith explains exactly how he did
it."--Brian McHale, co-editor of The Cambridge History of
Postmodern Literature
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