" Other important predecessors include Alfred Bester's two most celebrated novels, The Demolished Man and The Stars My Destination, as well as Vernor Vinge's novella True Names.

The book itself went on to inspire the plot for a wide array of novels, from Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur ( 1880 ), a Science Fiction retelling in Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination, to Stephen Fry's contemporary The Stars ' Tennis Balls,

Gold published many notable stories during his tenure, including Ray Bradbury's " The Fireman ", later expanded as Fahrenheit 451 ; Robert A. Heinlein's The Puppet Masters ; and Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man.

The Paradox Patrol, in a series of stories by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, are a parody of Piper's Paratime Police, although they also pay homage to Alfred Bester in their enforcement of " Bester's Law ".

In 2009, Van Gelder compiled The Very Best of Fantasy & Science Fiction: Sixtieth Anniversary Anthology, including stories in F & SF issues ranging from 1951 ( Alfred Bester's " Of Time and Third Avenue ") to 2007 (" The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate " by Ted Chiang ).

* Part II of Alfred Bester's novel The Stars My Destination is introduced with a section of the poem.

In Alfred Bester's 1953 novel The Demolished Man, the protagonist uses a jingle specifically crafted to be a catchy, irritating nuisance as a tool to block mind readers from reading his mind.

Garibaldi, under the PsiCop Alfred Bester's influence, had set a trap for Sheridan.

In Alfred Bester's novel " The Demolished Man ", many of the main characters are espers.

That short story, " The Men Who Corflued Mohammed ," is a fannish homage to Alfred Bester's " The Men Who Murdered Mohammed.

** " Star Light, Star Bright " ( short story ), a story in Alfred Bester's book

The main character of Alfred Bester's famous science-fiction novel, The Stars My Destination, is named Gulliver Foyle.

Often, however, the book suggests that those minor characters who repeatedly make this judgment are simply looking for symptoms of change and vitality in the wrong parts of society — a theme Nova shares with Alfred Bester's Stars My Destination.

( The frag concept appears to be based partly on the ideas in Alfred Bester's " The Men Who Murdered Mohammed ".

Jeffty can even watch films that are adaptations of old pulp fiction novels like Alfred Bester's The Demolished Man.

In Alfred Duggan's Conscience of the King, a historical novel about Cerdic, founder of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex, Ambrosius Aurelianus is a Romano-British general who rose independently to military power, forming alliances with various British kings and setting out to drive the invading Saxons from Britain.

The Bates Motel is an important part of Psycho, a 1959 novel by Robert Bloch, and Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 film, Psycho.

She appeared in the 1975 screen adaptation of the Hans Fallada novel, Every Man Dies Alone directed by Alfred Vohrer, released in English as Everyone Dies Alone in 1976 and for which she won an award for best actress at the International Film Festival in Carlsbad, then in Czechoslovakia.

He is the central figure in Alfred Duggan's 1960 historical novel The Cunning of the Dove.

* Rebecca ( 1940 film ), a 1940 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock based on the du Maurier novel

Alfred Kazin characterized Dreiser as " stronger than all the others of his time, and at the same time more poignant ; greater than the world he has described, but as significant as the people in it ," while Larzer Ziff ( UC Berkeley ) remarked that Dreiser " succeeded beyond any of his predecessors or successors in producing a great American business novel.

Alfred Hitchcock had planned to direct Deneuve in a screen adaptation of the spy novel The Short Night, but by the time the project was ready to go into production, Hitchcock was unable to direct due to his poor health, and plans for the film were scrapped.

* Marcus Licinius Crassus is a major character in the 1956 Alfred Duggan novel, Winter Quarters.

* The novel Founding Fathers by Alfred Duggan describes the founding and first decades of Rome from the points of view of one of Romulus's Latin followers, a Sabine who settles in Rome as part of the peace agreement with Tatius, an Etruscan fugitive who is accepted into the tribe of Luceres after his own city is destroyed, and a Greek seeking purification from blood-guilt who comes to the city in the last years of Romulus ' reign.

After I, Claudius, he and the ex-patriate German film producer Erich Pommer founded the production company Mayflower Pictures in the UK, which produced three films starring Laughton: Vessel of Wrath ( US Title The Beachcomber ) ( 1938 ), based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham, in which his wife Elsa Lanchester co-starred ; St. Martin's Lane ( US Title Sidewalks of London ), about London street entertainers, which featured Vivien Leigh and Rex Harrison ; and Jamaica Inn, with Maureen O ' Hara and Robert Newton, about Cornish smugglers, based on Daphne du Maurier's novel, and the last film Alfred Hitchcock directed in Britain before moving to Hollywood in the late 1930s.

Alfred Hitchcock had agreed to do a film for MGM, and they had chosen an adaptation of the novel The Wreck of the Mary Deare by Hammond Innes.

Hiaasen immediately recommended the novel to publishing house Alfred A. Knopf.

But Fassbinder's TV series Berlin Alexanderplatz was a naturalistic adaptation of the two-volume novel by Alfred Döblin, which Fassbinder had read many times.

Returning to his explorations of German history, Fassbinder finally realized his dream of adapting Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz.

Cerdic is the main protagonist in the historical novel Conscience of the King ( 1951 ), by the English author Alfred Duggan.

This series includes, for example, Ethel Lina White's novel The Wheel Spins ( 1936 ), which Alfred Hitchcock — before he went to Hollywood — turned into a much-loved movie entitled The Lady Vanishes ( 1938 ), and Ira Levin's ( born 1929 ) science fiction thriller The Boys from Brazil ( 1976 ), which was filmed in 1978.

* The BBC made a 16-episode TV series in 1965 entitled Hereward the Wake, based on Kingsley's novel: Hereward was portrayed by actor Alfred Lynch.

In his film career, he played the grandfather in The Red Pony ( 1949 ), adapted from the novel by John Steinbeck and starring Robert Mitchum, and the spy boss of Cary Grant in the Alfred Hitchcock suspense classic Notorious ( 1946 ).

Count Bohemund by Alfred Duggan ( 1964 ) is an historical novel concerning the life of Bohemund and its events up to the fall of Jerusalem to the crusaders.

Their story has been dramatized many times, including in the Alfred Hitchcock movie Rope, the 1959 film Compulsion based on Meyer Levin novel, the 1994 film Swoon, and the 2002 movie Murder by Numbers.

* Cagliostro is a character in Psychoshop, a novel by Alfred Bester and Roger Zelazny.

As usual in the Bond novels, a number of Fleming's friends or associates had their names used in the novel ; the Masterton sisters having their names taken from Sir John Masterman, an MI5 agent and Oxford academic who ran the double cross system during World War II ; Alfred Whiting, the golf professional at Royal St George's Golf Club, Sandwich, becoming Alfred Blacking ; whilst the Royal St George's Golf Club itself became the Royal St Mark's, for the game between Bond and Goldfinger.

Mitford wrote sequels to the novel, Love in a Cold Climate ( 1949 ) and Don't Tell Alfred ( 1960 ).

Don't Tell Alfred ( 1960 ) is a sequel to the novel giving further insight into the married life of Fanny and Alfred.

* Alfred Bester-The Demolished Man

* The " memory wipe " is very similar to " demolition " in the novel The Demolished Man-written by Alfred Bester whose name was used for the recurring antagonist psi cop played by Walter Koenig.

J. Michael Straczynski named the character after the science fiction writer Alfred Bester, since telepathy is a recurring theme in his work ( most notably The Demolished Man ).

* Alfred Bester, 1934, Recipient of the first Hugo Award for a Science Fiction Novel: The Demolished Man ( 1953 ), Science Fiction Grand Master ( 1988 ), and author of The Stars My Destination ( 1956 )

The Demolished Man, by Alfred Bester, is a science fiction novel that was the first Hugo Award winner in 1953.