Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!DBarker@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA From: DBarker@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Book Recommendations Message-ID: <16449@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Feb-84 11:39:00 EST Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.16449 Posted: Mon Feb 6 11:39:00 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 23:29:36 EST Lines: 18 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!!