Title: The Roller Coaster
Title Record # 63175
Author: Alfred Bester
Date: 1953-05-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
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Author: Alfred Bester
Date: 1953-05-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Synopsis: People from the future visit our time in order to indulge in the thrill of violence.
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| Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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| Fantastic, May-June 1953 | 1953-05-00 | ed. Howard Browne | Ziff-Davis Publishing Company | $0.35?$: US dollar |
164 | digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125". |
mag | W. T. Mars |  |
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| Starburst | 1958-05-00 | Alfred Bester | Signet / New American Library | S1524 | $0.35?$: US dollar |
160 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | Richard Powers | |
| Starburst | 1965-04-00 | Alfred Bester | Signet / New American Library | D2672 | $0.50?$: US dollar |
160 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | Richard Powers | |
| Starburst | 1965-04-00 | Alfred Bester | Signet / New American Library of Canada | D2672 | C$0.50?C$: Canadian dollar |
160 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | Richard Powers | |
| Amazing Stories, August 1967 | 1967-08-00 | ed. Joseph Ross | Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc. | $0.50?$: US dollar |
146 | digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125". |
mag | Frank R. Paul | |
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| Starburst | 1968-10-00 | Alfred Bester | Sphere Books | 16071 | 5/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced
in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings
equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling.
Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g.
3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that
is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but
sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters
of a shilling). |
158 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | |
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| Starburst | 1970-12-00 | Alfred Bester | Signet / New American Library of Canada | T4460 | C$0.75?C$: Canadian dollar |
160 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | Bob Pepper | |
| The Best from Fantastic | 1973-00-00 | ed. Ted White | Manor Books | 95242 | $0.95?$: US dollar |
192 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
anth | |
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| Starburst | 1973-03-00 | Alfred Bester | Sphere Books | 0-7221-1610-1 | £0.30?£: UK pound |
158 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | Colin Hay | |
| The Best from Fantastic | 1976-00-00 | ed. Ted White | Robert Hale (Hale SF) | 0-7091-5128-4 | £3.10?£: UK pound |
192 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
anth | ||
| Starburst | 1977-06-00 | Alfred Bester | Pan Books | 0-330-25111-2 | £0.60?£: UK pound |
155 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | Gino D'Achille | |
| Starburst | 1980-03-00 | Alfred Bester | Signet / New American Library | 0-451-09132-9 | $1.75?$: US dollar |
160 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | Bob Pepper | |
| Starburst | 1980-03-00 | Alfred Bester | Signet / New American Library of Canada | 0-451-09132-9 | C$1.95?C$: Canadian dollar |
160 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | Bob Pepper | |
| Spec-Lit 2 | 1998-11-00 | ed. Phyllis Eisenstein | Columbia College Chicago | 0-932026-48-6 | $11.95?$: US dollar |
176 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
anth | Ed Emshwiller | |
| Redemolished | 2000-12-00 | Alfred Bester | ibooks | 0-7434-0725-3 | $14.95?$: US dollar |
521 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
coll | Simon Danaher | |
| Redemolished | 2004-09-00 | Alfred Bester | ibooks | 0-7434-8679-X | $7.99?$: US dollar |
559 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | Simon Danaher | |
| Starburst | date unknown | Alfred Bester | Signet / New American Library | T4460 | $0.75?$: US dollar |
160 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
coll | Bob Pepper | |
| Redemolished | date unknown | Alfred Bester | ibooks | 978-0-7434-0725-0 | $29.95?$: US dollar |
521 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
coll | Howard Chaykin | |