About the book: 2009 / Alfred Bester is a great experimenter and a great destroyer of traditions. The strange worlds in which his heroes live are unpredictable and dangerous, because they are devoid of logic and force their inhabitants to follow their own rules of the game. Recognized masterpieces of the master, such novels as “The Man Without a Face” and “Tiger! Tiger!”, have become textbook, it is impossible to imagine modern science fiction without them, just as it is impossible to imagine it without the novels of Robert Heinlein, Roger Zelazny or Philip K. Dick. The selected works of the writer, in addition to those already known, include works that have not previously been published in Russian.