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[John Boylan]

  Alfred Bester receives glancing appreciations from Paul Di Filippo :
>Lest us not forget Alfred bester's inventive tricks in his _The Demolished
>Man_, in which a name such as "Atkinson" might be rendered "@kinson".

And Jules Siegel :
>How about the fact that Bester predicted breast implants in The
>Demolished Man?

  And I say : in a more just literary world Bester would be as known and
well-regarded as, say, Raymond Chandler.

  His late years were melancholy. He left his literary estate to his
bartender. List relevance? TRP was (is?) a fan.


                                               --John Boylan