Bester

Note that jaunting, in Bester's THE STARS MY DESTINATION is a skill (craft) that pretty much everyone can learn but that jaunting through space is a talent (art) that only Gully Foyle has achieved.

Archive 2008-07-01 Hal Duncan 2008

Bester is much admired verbally, but very few authors really try to emulate him in print — he set the bar so high — and Edelman's success is commensurate with his ambitions.

MultiReal: Taking its Place Among the Classics Lou Anders 2008

Note that jaunting, in Bester's THE STARS MY DESTINATION is a skill (craft) that pretty much everyone can learn but that jaunting through space is a talent (art) that only Gully Foyle has achieved.

Notes on Strange Fiction: Magic Hal Duncan 2008

Bester is much admired verbally, but very few authors really try to emulate him in print — he set the bar so high — and Edelman's success is commensurate with his ambitions.

Archive 2008-07-01 Lou Anders 2008

The jaunting in Bester's The Stars My Destination is even more of a blatant metaphysical.

More Aesthetics Hal Duncan 2007

The jaunting in Bester's The Stars My Destination is even more of a blatant metaphysical.

Archive 2007-03-01 Hal Duncan 2007

Fuck it, I'd say Bester is totally walking roughshod over the laws of physics here, kicking thermodynamics to one side, pushing the dirt over it and saying, Look, it's the Goodyear Blimp! as he points in the other direction.

Archive 2006-07-01 Hal Duncan 2006

The jaunting in Bester's THE STARS MY DESTINATION, for example, is a hypothetical with no real theoretical basis other than the classic SFnal handwaving of "the next stage in human evolution".

Strange Fiction 6 Hal Duncan 2006

Fuck it, I'd say Bester is totally walking roughshod over the laws of physics here, kicking thermodynamics to one side, pushing the dirt over it and saying, Look, it's the Goodyear Blimp! as he points in the other direction.

Strange Fiction 6 Hal Duncan 2006

The jaunting in Bester's THE STARS MY DESTINATION, for example, is a hypothetical with no real theoretical basis other than the classic SFnal handwaving of "the next stage in human evolution".

Archive 2006-07-01 Hal Duncan 2006