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1953 Hugo Award NovelºÎ¹® "The Demolished Man"
1988 Prometheus AwardÀÇ Hall of Fame Award for Best Classic Libertarian SF NovelºÎ¹® "Tiger! Tiger!"

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Novels
The Demolished Man (1953)[Hu1953][If1954 n][Lc1975 n][Lc1987 n]
Magazine Appearances:
The Demolished Man (Part 1 of 3) (1952)
The Demolished Man (Part 2 of 3) (1952)
The Demolished Man (Part 3 of 3) (1952)
Tiger! Tiger!
[vt The Stars My Destination (US 1957)] (1956)[Lc1975 n][Lc1987 n]
[Pr1984 n][Pr1986 x][Pr1987 n][Pr1988]
Magazine Appearances:
The Stars My Destination (Part 1 of 4) (1956)
The Stars My Destination (Part 2 of 4) (1956)
The Stars My Destination (Part 3 of 4) (1956)
The Stars My Destination (Part 4 of 4) (1957)
The Computer Connection
[vt The Indian Giver]
[vt Extro] (1975)[Dt1976 n][Hu1976 n][Lc1976 n][Ne1975 n]
Magazine Appearances:
The Indian Giver (Part 1 of 3) (1974)
The Indian Giver (Part 2 of 3) (1974)
The Indian Giver (Part 3 of 3) (1975)
Golem 100 (1980)[Lc1981 n]
The Deceivers (1981)
Extro (1989)
Tender Loving Rage (1991)
The Complete Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination (1992) with
Byron Preiss and Howard V. Chaykin
Psycho Shop (1998) with Roger Zelazny - A manuscript
started by Bester before his death and completed by Zelazny
before his death.

Collections
Starburst (1958)
The Dark Side of the Earth (1964)
The Light Fantastic (1976)[Lc1977 n]
Star Light, Star Bright (1976)[Lc1977 n]
Starlight (1976)
Virtual Unrealities (1997)

Omnibus
An Alfred Bester Omnibus (1967)
Starlight: The Great Short Fiction of Alfred Bester (1976)

Non-Fiction
Tender Loving Rage (1991) - Posthumously published from c1959

Short Fiction
The Broken Axiom (1939)
No Help Wanted (1939)
Guinea Pig, Ph.D. (1940)
Voyage to Nowhere (1940)
Adam and No Eve (1941)
The Biped, Reegan (1941) - Super Science Stories
The Mad Molecule (1941)
The Pet Nebula (1941)
The Probable Man (1941)
Slaves of the Life-Ray (1941)
Hell Is Forever (1942)
Life For Sale (1942)
Life for Sale (1942)
The Push of a Finger (1942)
The Unseen Blushers (1942)
The Devil's Invention
[vt Oddy and Id] (1950)
Of Time and Third Avenue (1951)
The Demolished Man (1952)
Hobson's Choice (1952)
Disappearing Act (1953) with Richard Matheson
The Roller Coaster (1953)
Star Light, Star Bright (1953)
Time Is the Traitor (1953)
Time is the Traitor (1953)
5,271,009
[vt The Starcomber] (1954)
Fondly Fahrenheit (1954)
The Men Who Murdered Mohammed (1957)[Hu1959 n]
The Die-Hard (1958)
Travel Diary (1958)
The Pi Man (1959)[Hu1960 n]
Will You Wait? (1959)
They Don't Make Life Like They Used To (1963)
The Flowered Thundermug (1964)
Out of This World (1964)
Ms. Found in a Champagne Bottle (1968)
The Animal Fair (1972)[Ne1972 n]
Something Up There Likes Me (1973)
The Four-Hour Fugue (1974)[Hu1975 n][Lc1975 n]
Galatea Galante (1979)[Lc1980 n]
MS Found in a Coconut (1979)
Emerging Nation (unpublished)

Poems
The Black Nebulea (Quintet, Part 1) (1959)[as Sonny Powell]

Non-Genre
Who He?
[vt The Rat Race (1956)] (1953)

Essays/Articles
The Trematode: A Critique of Modern Science Fiction (1953)
Books (Fantasy and Science Fiction, June 1961) (1961)
with James Blish
Books (Fantasy and Science Fiction, March 1961) (1961)
The Dark Side of the Earth (1964)
Isaac Asimov (1973)
My Affair with Science Fiction (1974)
Comment on Fondly Fahrenheit (1976)
Mastering the Art of Space Cooking (1977)
Horace, Galaxyca (1980)