![]() ![]() ![]() In the 24 th century, where a small fraction of humanity has developed telepathic powers, corporate executive Ben Reich is being out-competed by a rival company. Case in point: The Demolished Man, a Freudian thriller. However good he is (or however bad he became after his hiatus), in his prime Bester was always delivering an experience that was somehow unique and strange. It’s Bester’s contradictions that make him so fascinating to watch, even when he’s not entirely successful. He was a white man writing in the 1950s, so when describing a black woman’s skin color in The Stars my Destination he uses the word “negro” (which is unacceptable in modern culture but at the time was considered the “proper” way to say “black person”) but the actual character is independent, intelligent and holds a respectable job as a hospital worker who rehabilitates accident victims. ![]() On the other his experiments with typography and form prefigured New Wave Science Fiction and are occasionally credited with birthing the movement. On one hand he’s indisputably a pulp author who put a heavy emphasis on pacing and excitement. Alfred Bester is an odd landmark in science fiction history. ![]()
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In fact there are many major works of art in our museums which are not on view, and of which the British public, for whom they were acquired, know little. Hearing such muttered laments you might have supposed that there were no closed galleries in the great museums of the Western world, and no fine things in storage. ‘What a shame that the ancient painted vase illegally exported from Turkey or the bronze leopard brutally looted from Benin or the sandstone deity clandestinely excavated in Cambodia should be returned to their countries of origin, where they would be seen by a smaller and less varied public and would be less well displayed, or perhaps not be displayed at all and only possible to view by appointment.’ ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ī graduate of Stanford Law School and Princeton University, Stein has more than two decades of experience in executive law, representing individuals from all walks of life, including entrepreneurs, C-Suite executives, and less senior employees of all size companies. Listen to the entire interview of Jotham Stein by Mark Bishop at. 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Returning to Germany, she visits archives, conducts research, and interviews family members, uncovering in the process the stories of her maternal grandfather, a driving teacher in Karlsruhe during the war, and her father’s brother Franz-Karl, who died as a teenage SS soldier. Yet she knew little about her own family’s involvement though all four grandparents lived through the war, they never spoke of it.Īfter twelve years in the US, Krug realizes that living abroad has only intensified her need to ask the questions she didn’t dare to as a child. ![]() Nora Krug was born decades after the fall of the Nazi regime, but the Second World War cast a long shadow over her childhood and youth in the city of Karlsruhe, Germany. 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To talk about the work of an author that I myself have translated is a bit tricky. And I've been asked to serve as a sort of host, because I translated her two most recent novels into English. ![]() I've been a fan of Sinisalo's work for years. Elliott Bay is my neighborhood bookstore. Johanna Sinisalo, fondly known as the queen of Finnish Weird, is coming to Seattle, and will be appearing at the Elliott Bay Book Company on October 24th, and I'm quite excited about it. ![]() |