{"id":472,"date":"2010-09-19T09:38:11","date_gmt":"2010-09-19T00:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/19\/the-computer-connection-by-alfred-bester\/"},"modified":"2010-09-19T09:38:11","modified_gmt":"2010-09-19T00:38:11","slug":"the-computer-connection-by-alfred-bester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/19\/the-computer-connection-by-alfred-bester\/","title":{"rendered":"The Computer Connection by Alfred Bester"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"floatleft\">\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=daveva-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&#038;asins=0743487133\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/rcm.amazon.com\/e\/cm?lt1=_blank&#038;bc1=000000&#038;IS2=1&#038;bg1=FFFFFF&#038;fc1=000000&#038;lc1=0000FF&#038;t=daveva-20&#038;o=1&#038;p=8&#038;l=as1&#038;m=amazon&#038;f=ifr&#038;md=10FE9736YVPPT7A0FBG2&#038;asins=0679767800\" style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" scrolling=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It is about time that I&#8217;ve gotten around to reading some Alfred Bester.  I&#8217;ve known about him for a long time, probably when I first saw the character &#8220;Bester&#8221; on Babylon 5 and looked up that history.  I&#8217;ve never gotten around to reading anything by Bester though.  Last week I dug up some Bester stuff, and read &#8220;Adam and no Eve&#8221;, and then just today finished off &#8220;Computer Connection&#8221;.  I got interested in Computer Connection because of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/blogs\/2010\/09\/super-sad-and-not-so-secretly-a-science-fiction-novel-a-review-of-gary-shteyngarts-super-sad-true-love-story\">this post over on Tor.com<\/a>.  Super Sad True Love Story sounds interesting, but that post reminded me that I haven&#8217;t read any Bester at all, and I should be able to find some older stuff somewhere for pretty cheap.<\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p>I do miss Half Price Books in Dallas, but just about every time I go back to the States I manage to find a nice used book store.  <\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p>I enjoyed The Computer Connection, but the created language that Bester used to add flavor to his world seemed a bit dated to me, or perhaps just annoyed me.  But still, it was a nice fun read, and went very quickly.  The book itself didn&#8217;t feel dated, even though it really should just because of the gap between how quickly computers and electronics progressed since the book was written.<\/p>\n<p\/>\n<p>Next up I&#8217;m going to try Tiger, Tiger.  <\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is about time that I&#8217;ve gotten around to reading some Alfred Bester. I&#8217;ve known about him for a long time, probably when I first saw the character &#8220;Bester&#8221; on Babylon 5 and looked up that history. I&#8217;ve never gotten around to reading anything by Bester though. Last week I dug up some Bester stuff, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fugutabetai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}