THE LIGHT FANTASTIC and STAR LIGHT, STAR BRIGHT: THE GREAT SHORT FICTION... VOLUME I and VOLUME II

by Alfred Bester

$250 · Offered by L. W. Currey · No longer available

First edition

New York: Published by Berkley Publishing Corporation Distributed by G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1976 . Octavo, two volumes, boards and cloth. First editions. A seminal collection of short fiction, stories mostly first published in the 1950s, including Fondly Fahrenheit, a SF horror tale from 1954 which is perhaps the darkest and finest robot story yet written, a cautionary tale that should be read and reread by those into AI.

• Binding: Hardcover

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