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From: DBarker@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA
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Subject: Book Recommendations
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Date: Mon, 6-Feb-84 11:39:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  6 11:39:00 1984
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Alfred Bester is certainly not unknown in England (well no more than any
SF  author  is  unknown!)  BTW  the  English  title  of  "The  Stars  My
Destination"  was  "Tiger  Tiger",  which  anyone  who  has read it will
comprehend.   There are also a couple of books of his short stories, the
titles of which I forget, but they are both excellent.

In  the  same  sort of 1950s space opera genre, may I mention Charles L.
Harness, whose three novels ("The Paradox Men", "The Rose" and "The Ring
of  Ritornel")  I  can heartily recommend, and will submit synopses if I
get   the   time   tomorrow.    Anyone  who  enjoys  late-40s  Van  Vogt
(particularly  the  Null-A  books) will certainly enjoy The Paradox Men,
which  takes as its inspiration Toynbee's theories of history (where Van
Vogt  used  Korzybski's  theories  of General Semantics).  The Rose also
contains  two of the nicest short-stories I know "The Chess Players" and
"The New Reality".

Even  the  people  who  have heard of Bester don't seem to have heard of
Harness!!