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The Deceivers.

By: Bester, Alfred

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Severn House: London.: 1984.

Edition: First hardcover edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 00133

ISBN: 0727809962

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Fine copy in a fine dustjacket (as new).

SF novel. First published as a paperback original in 1981.

''Rogue Winter is King of the Maori Commandos. His lover is the beautiful Demi Jeroux, who has been kidnapped by the villanous Manchu Duke of Death. Rogue must search through the solar system to find the missing Demi Jeroux. But she is merely a pawn in the Duke of Death's gambit to seize control''.
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''The Indian Giver'' (3-part serial in Analog).

By: Bester, Alfred

Price: £10.00

Publisher: Conde Nast: NY.: 1974-1975.

Edition: First editions (& 1st printings).

Seller ID: 35202

Binding: Digest magazines.

Condition: Browning along page edges, NF/Fine (unread) copies.

Three issues: serialisation of three part novel ''The Indian Giver'' in Analog magazine (December 1974 - February 1975), expanded in book form as THE COMPUTER CONNECTION (USA) and (Title change) EXTRO (UK).

''two decades after his last, his new novel, The Computer Connection (November 1974 - January 1975 Analog as THE INDIAN GIVER; 1975; vt Extro 1975), while full of incidental felicities, did not quite recapture the old drive in its ornate story of a group of immortals and an omniscient Computer; perhaps it lacked a natural ''Besterman'' as focus. The pace and complexity were still the...
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The Demolished Man (Hugo Award winner for best novel).

By: Bester, Alfred

Price: £15.00

Publisher: Panther: London.: 1959.

Edition: First British paperback edition (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 31947

Binding: Paperback original.

Condition: Page edges browned, a VG+ copy with a little spine edge wear.

Panther 933. ''Panther Edition published August, 1959'' on the copyright page. Classic sf novel, first published in hardcover in 1953. Winner of the 1953 Hugo award for best novel. In Pringle, Science Fiction: The 100 Best Novels no 7. A very uncommon UK paperback.
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Extro.

By: Bester, Alfred

Price: £8.00

Publisher: Eyre Methuen: London.: 1975.

Edition: First edition thus (& 1st printing).

Seller ID: 15250

ISBN: 0413344606

Binding: Hardcover.

Condition: Page edges browning, else a fine copy in a VG+ dustjacket.

SF novel, serialised in Analog from November 1974 - January 1975 as ''The Indian Giver''. Title change: first published in the US as THE COMPUTER CONNECTION.

''Two decades after his last, his new novel, The Computer Connection (November 1974 - January 1975 Analog as ''The Indian Giver''; 1975; vt EXTRO 1975), while full of incidental felicities, did not quite recapture the old drive in its ornate story of a group of immortals and an omniscient computer; perhaps it lacked a natural ''Besterman'' as focus. The pace and complexity were still there, but somehow looking like self-parody'' ...
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Author:Bester, Alfred

The Deceivers.

''The Indian Giver'' (3-part serial in Analog).

The Demolished Man (Hugo Award winner for best novel).

Extro.

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