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Review: Star Light, Star Bright: The Great Short Fiction of Alfred Bester, Vol 2

User Review  - Megan Baxter - Goodreads

This is a solid, if not spectacular, collection of short stories. The problem is, based on the two Bester novels I've read, I expect spectacular. I expect him to bend language to his will and plunge ... Read full review

Review: Star Light, Star Bright: The Great Short Fiction of Alfred Bester, Vol 2

User Review  - Nick Tramdack - Goodreads

I think prefer Bester's long form work over his short stories. The tales in this book are all entertaining and often very funny, but the scales kind of fell from my eyes a little when I realized that ... Read full review

Review: Star Light, Star Bright: The Great Short Fiction of Alfred Bester, Vol 2

User Review - Goodreads

The best stories here I think are "Hobson's Choice" and the eponymous one. Also "The Pi Man" achieved a certain transcendent wackiness. A couple others were alright...but "They Don't Make Life" was ...

Review: Star Light, Star Bright: The Great Short Fiction of Alfred Bester, Vol 2

User Review  - John - Goodreads

Of the two collections Bester published in this year, this is by far the better. Some of the stories have aged badly ("Adam and No Eve", in which a Last Man discovers he needs no Last Woman in order ... Read full review

Review: Star Light, Star Bright: The Great Short Fiction of Alfred Bester, Vol 2

User Review  - Tom Loock - Goodreads

I read this one a long time ago (pre-1980) Read full review

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