Redemolished

Redemolished is a collection of short stories, interviews, and other articles and essays by science fiction author Alfred Bester.^[1] The collection was published in 2000 (thirteen years after Bester's death) by iBooks.^[2]

Redemolished contains the following short stories:

• "The Probable Man"
• "Hell Is Forever"
• "The Push of a Finger"
• "The Roller Coaster"
• "The Lost Child"
• "I'll Never Celebrate New Year's Again"
• "Out of This World"
• "The Animal Fair"
• "Something Up There Likes Me"
• "The Four-Hour Fugue"

The collection also contains three fictional articles published in Holiday Magazine:

• "Gourmet Dining in Outer Space"
• "Place of the Month: The Moon"
• "The Sun"

The collection also includes four essays:

• "Science Fiction and the Renaissance Man", originally delivered as a lecture at the University of Chicago in 1957. The other lecturers included Cyril Kornbluth, Robert A. Heinlein, and Robert Bloch.
• "A Diatribe Against Science Fiction"
• "The Perfect Composite Science Fiction Author"
• "My Affair with Science Fiction"

The following items are also included:

• interviews with John Huston and Rex Stout
• a conversation with Woody Allen
• brief articles on Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein
• two deleted prologues and an analysis of The Demolished Man
• a memorial for Bester written by Isaac Asimov, with an introduction by Gregory S. Benford