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Blurb: “16 great stories by a master of science fiction
Space travel, time machines, runaway robots, wit, insanity, intelligence and non-stop imagination -Alfred Bester, celebrated author of The Demolished Man and The Computer Connection has crammed all of these and more into his new, dynamic 2-in-1 volume STARLIGHT. Containing all the sto ries from both The Light Fantastic and Star Light, Star Bright, each tale in this mammoth collection opens up new vistas of wonder and amazement.
Some of the works included are:
Disappearing Act. Ward T was something of a mystery. As in all army hospitals, there were nineteen classes of combat injury-using up the letters A to S. What then was in Ward T? The doors were double-locked. No visitors were permitted to enter. No patients were allowed to leave. Public opinion decided it was a ghost ward-and it wasn't very far from the truth...
The Men Who Murdered
Mohammed. Must yesterday control what tomorrow will bring? Mad professor Henry Hassel found out one day after unexpectedly finding his wife in the arms of another man. Enraged beyond control, Henry and his time machine flew back into the past to kill his wife's grandfather-to make sure she would never even be born!
Only Henry was unaware of one very crucial point, and ended up committing "chronocide" himselt.
Adam and No Eve. Krane was the last man on a devastated Earth-and he knew it. Crawling over the scarred, radiation-soaked surface with a broken leg he had searched in vain for just one other survivor-preferably a woman to tend his wounds and perpetuate the race.
Now he'd given up... there was nobody else to find.
When Krane died, mankind and all his collective hopes and dreams would go with him. Unless...
Star Light, Star Bright. Stuart
Buchanan makes friends with very unusual people. They've already invented a disintegrator beam, miniature robots, and a matter transmitter-and they're only eleven years old... and now Stuart is missing. His family. records, belongings all went with him -leaving only unanswered questions.
Where did Stuart come from, and more importantly, where is he now?
These and other classic stories such as The Pl Man, Hell Is Forever, and Time Is The Traitor and a personal interview with Isaac Asimov make STARLIGHT one of Alfred Bester's most challenging volumes.”