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This "collaboration" started as a Bester novel, left unfinished at his death. Zelazny was offered the opportunity to complete it, and the result seems to have evaded publication until several years after his death.
To me, the result still feels unfinished; the story concludes, but it could have used another editing pass. To anyone else who misses these writers, though, it's worth a look.
A level 1 content warning is appropriate.
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Psychoshop
Copyright © 1998 by the Alfred Bester Estate and the Amber Corporation, Inc. | ||
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| One The Psychbroker |
The world is divided into 99% civilians and 1% elite. The civilians are all running scared, afraid of nonconforming. The elites are on easy terms with themselves and the world, don't give a damn for, and can't be spooked by, anything. | Topic: |
| Five Brains and Biscuits |
"Some anthropologists tell us that the earliest myths, with their hopes, fears, and ideals, had their roots in the constellations. Or was it the other way around? No matter. Religion, philosophy, tales of adventure and romance may all go back to the pictures in the sky." She gestured again and the Big Dipper appeared. "Uh, how does a dipper figure in religion, philosophy, and romance?" I asked. She paused, there on the hilltop, and stared at it, wrinkling her nose in a most becoming fashion. "You want to talk principles or you want to talk cases?" she asked. | Topic: |
| "I don't believe in pacts with demons, lass," she said. "I've seen too much about how evil really comes to be." | Topic: | |
| Six Macavity's Smile |
"Mais non, it was not Jung that I was thinking of. It was Adler." "Power drives?" "Power. Oui. The drive to dominate, to command, to be le premier, the boss. That's where all the energy psychique goes after the youthful sex drives have had their fun." "Maybe for every psychologist there's an equal and opposite psychologist," I offered. He chuckled. "Non, non," he said. "M'sieur Alf, look around you. Look inside yourself. Life is all power games. Everyone wants to be the God of something, tout le monde. It's just a question of how big a kingdom we can each carve ourselves, how high we can rise." | Topic: |
text checked (note A) Jan '05 | ||
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