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    <body><![CDATA[I suppose most of these stories come under the umbrella &quot;dated&quot; which doesn't mean they're bad - Beethoven's Fifth is pretty dated - but that they are a certain sort of story, the kind I associate with Ray Bradbury and Asimov and that's not bad company. But on top of that they're well-writ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4655111">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Short story collection from Bester--who wrote two early hugely influential books:The Stars My Destination and The Demolished Man. A lot of the stories are from the '50s and '60s and some have aged better than others. The ones that work are great. I'm just not a big fan of the short story--I just don...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42561597">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is an excellent and strong short story collection by Alfred Bester. It's particularly worth noting (for me, anyway) because it has one of my favorite short stories, &quot;The Pi Man,&quot; a bizarre and delightful story about a man who feels compelled to respond to the greater patterns of the u...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23437455">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Some of the best sci-fi short stories ever. Each of these little darlings is a work of art, they come alive on the page and reading them some forty years later, are astonishingly on the mark. Bester is a craftsman, a philosopher, a visionary. All the things that can make science fiction great. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Decades old science fiction shouldn't feel so ahead of its time. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The book just arrived and I'm in Bester Heaven. He's like watching the old Twilight Zone at 3 A.M. There's also some great old New York lore in here, like if you know what a &quot;Third Avenue character&quot; is. I feel like I know Bester. My favorites were (in order): The Devil Without Glasses, Tim...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/33028225">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Frickin awesome]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Apr 04 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[this collection of short stories really showcases Bester's humorous writing style and his revolutionary (for his time) ideas.  it was like reading a bunch of episodes of the twilight zone.  i didn't give it 5 stars because some of the stories were weird and i really couldn't get in to them, although...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18013941">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Picked this up b/c I liked the cover...ok?  Maybe you can tell a book by its cover.  Hadn't read scifi in a looong time.  This was so refreshing and brilliant and, best of all, it wasn't what all the geeks are/were reading, so I could one-up them.  A lotta ppl. don't even know his work.  outstanding...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30659803">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The best of the best.  Also includes Disappearing Act, and a host of other incredible stories.  If you read one collection of science fiction short stories, this should be it.  If you want to see a shining example of a genius author working in a field he was born to dominate, this is it.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[another in the list of sci-fi/fantasy books that i've owned for years and not yet started.<br/><br/>don't even know where this one came from!]]></body>
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