Alfred Bester (1913–1987) was an American writer, a great experimenter, and a great breaker of tradition. A writer who made a stylistic breakthrough from the “Golden Age” to the “New Wave” and became the forerunner of “cyberpunk.” The strange worlds in which his heroes live are unpredictable and dangerous, because they are devoid of logic and force their inhabitants to be guided by their own rules of the game. Recognized masterpieces of the master, such novels as “The Destroyed Man” and “Tiger! Tiger!”, have become textbook, it is impossible to imagine modern science fiction without them, just as it is impossible to imagine it without the novels of Robert Heinlein, Roger Zelazny or Philip Dick. So, before you are bright, energetic, full of references and hidden meaning, the novels and stories of the “Master of Pyrotechnics” himself — Alfred Bester. Contents: Man destroyedTiger! Tiger! Diabolical interface Deceivers Psycho-shopHell is forever Stories (collection)