The Nebula Awards are voted on, and presented by, active members of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. (or SWFA)--and the Grand Master Award is given by the SWFA to a living author for a lifetime's achievement in science fiction and/or fantasy.
Frederik Pohl, one of the wor[...]
Gully Foyle, Mechanic's Mate 3rd Class. EDUCATION: none SKILLS: none MERITS: none RECOMMENDATIONS: none That's the official verdict on Gully Foyle, unskilled space crewman. But right now he is the only survivor on his drifting, wrecked spaceship, and when another space vessel, the Vorga, ignores his[...]
Alfred Bester's first science fiction novel since The Stars My Destination was a major event-a fast-moving adventure story set in Earth's future. A band of immortal-as charming a bunch of eccentrics as you'll ever come across-recruit a new member, the brilliant Cherokee physicist Sequoya Guess. Dr. [...]
"Dazzlement and enchantment are Bester's methods. His stories never stand still a moment."
?Damon Knight, author of Why Do Birds
Alfred Bester took science fiction into hyperdrive, endowing it with a wit, speed, and narrative inventiveness that have inspired two generations of writers. And[...]
In the year 2301, guns are only museum pieces and benign telepaths sweep the minds of the populace to detect crimes before they happen. In 2301 murder is virtually impossible, but one man is about to change that...Ben Reich, a psychopathic business magnate, has devised the ultimate scheme to elimin[...]
Marooned in outer space after an attack on his ship, Gulliver Foyle lives to obsessively pursue the crew of a rescue vessel that had intended to leave him to die. With its sly potshotting at corporate skullduggery, "The Stars My Destination" seems utterly contemporary, and has maintained its status [...]