Title: The Roller Coaster

Title: The Roller Coaster Title Record # 63175
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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Year	Language	Title
1977^ⓘTranslated by Walter Relsky	Dutch	De achtbaan
1978^ⓘTranslated by Uwe Anton	German	Achterbahn
1984^ⓘTranslated by Walter Brumm	German	Die Achterbahn
1986^ⓘTranslated by Dominique Haas	French	Le grand huit
1992^ⓘTranslated by an unknown hand	Russian	Роллер-костер^?Roller-koster [as by А. Бестер^?A. Bester ]
2016^ⓘTranslated by Paco Arellano	Spanish	Montaña rusa

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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

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