Alfred Bester has published little science fiction, but his impact on the genre has been enormous. Robert Scholes and Eric Rabkin have aptly commented that in the 1950s Bester "pumped new life into that hallowed American form of science fiction, the space opera. In two books [The Demolished Man and The Stars My Destination ] first serialized in Galaxy during the early fifties, Bester made his reputation and then fell silent for almost twenty years, but these two books are still very much alive, and have been influential on a younger generation of writers.... Bester brought the Gosh-Wow! back into science fiction, but accompanied by a knowing wink, and he almost started an American New Wave all by himself. It is not surprising that his third novel, The Computer Connection (1975), which appeared in Analog as The Indian Giver in 1974, fits in beautifully with what is presently going on in...