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A highly influential science fiction author, Alfred Bester (December 18, 1913 – September 30, 1987) was pretty much the Orson Welles of the literary world: an overweight, gregarious man who took chances with the format like nothing seen before. His works include ''Literature/TheDemolishedMan'' (the first winner of the Hugo Award), ''Literature/TheStarsMyDestination'', and stories in comics like ''ComicStrip/ThePhantom'' and several [[Creator/DCComics DC]] characters. The latter gave us easily his most famous pop culture contribution in the Franchise/GreenLantern oath. His short-story "Fondly Fahrenheit" was turned into a made-for-TV movie, ''Murder and the Android'' in 1959.
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A highly influential science fiction author, Alfred Bester (December 18, 1913 – September 30, 1987) was pretty much the Orson Welles of the literary world: an overweight, gregarious man who took chances with the format like nothing seen before. His works include ''Literature/TheDemolishedMan'' (the first winner of the Hugo Award), ''Literature/TheStarsMyDestination'', and stories in comics like ''ComicStrip/ThePhantom'' and several [[Creator/DCComics DC]] characters. The latter gave us easily his most famous pop culture contribution in the Franchise/GreenLantern oath. His short-story "Fondly Fahrenheit" was turned into a made-for-TV movie, ''Murder and the Android'' ''Series/MurderAndTheAndroid'' in 1959.
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* DelayedNarratorIntroduction: In "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed", the narrator reveals himself to be [[spoiler:another scientist who invented time travel, who meets the protagonist and explains to him how they are now both detached from time.]]
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* TimeTravelingJerkass: In the short story "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed", a MadScientist discovers his wife cheating on him. Instead of just murdering the other man, he decides to completely erase him from existence by [[GrandfatherParadox killing his grandparents while they were children]], but when he returns to the present the other man still exists. The scientist proceeds to murder people of greater and greater historical significance in the past in order to change history, but it remains unchanged. The final result of all this meddling with the past is to [[RetGone erase himself from history]].
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* ClockRoaches: "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed" is considered a pioneering use of this basic plot device -- the big {{Reveal}} at the end of the story is that the protagonist's repeated attempts to change history and destroy [[TheEndOFTheWorldAsWeKnowIt reality as we know it]] only succeed in making ''himself'' RetGone. (This ended up being the explicit inspiration for the concept of "frag" in the RPG ''TabletopGame/Continuum'' and other settings.)
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* ClockRoaches: "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed" is considered a pioneering use of this basic plot device -- the big {{Reveal}} at the end of the story is that the protagonist's repeated attempts to change history and destroy [[TheEndOFTheWorldAsWeKnowIt reality as we know it]] only succeed in making ''himself'' RetGone. (This ended up being the explicit inspiration for the concept of "frag" in the RPG ''TabletopGame/Continuum'' ''TabletopGame/{{Continuum}}'' and other settings.)
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* WeirdnessSearchAndRescue: Near the end of "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed", the time-traveling protagonist meets another more experienced time traveler who explains to him the cause and nature of the predicament he's found himself in. The "search and rescue" part is averted, however; the reason the other traveler is present to provide the exposition is that he got himself trapped in the same predicament first, and as far as he knows it's irreversible, so the story ends with both still trapped.
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* ClockRoaches: "The Men Who Murdered Mohammed" is considered a pioneering use of this basic plot device -- the big {{Reveal}} at the end of the story is that the protagonist's repeated attempts to change history and destroy [[TheEndOFTheWorldAsWeKnowIt reality as we know it]] only succeed in making ''himself'' RetGone. (This ended up being the explicit inspiration for the concept of "frag" in the RPG ''TabletopGame/Continuum'' and other settings.)
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* DealWithTheDevil: Goes a bit wrong in "Will You Wait?" when the protagonist tries to sell his soul to Satan, then gets caught up in months of complications related to arranging the contract.
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* IJustWriteTheThing: According to an interview with Bester, he killed off [[spoiler:Fee-5 in ''The Computer Connection'']] because [[https://www.tangentonline.com/interviews-columnsmenu-166/1748-classic-alfred-bester-interview she was taking over the story and he didn't have any other way to stop her]].
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* TheKlutz: Ozymandias in ''The Computer Connection'', who got the nickname because he can't go anywhere without causing a colossal wreck.
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* ReplacementGoldfish: At the end of ''The Computer Connection'', the protagonist attempts to [[spoiler:recover DNA from Fee-5's body, so that a clone of her can be grown. The book leaves it open whether or not this worked.]]
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* CloningBodyParts: A promising experimental technology in ''The Computer Connection''. One character loses his arm in an offscreen battle with the BigBad, and mentions that he hopes to have a clone replacement grown when he has the time.
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* TheAgeless: The protagonist of ''The Computer Connection'' is one of a group who have this quality. They can't be poisoned and are immune to most diseases.
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* JesusWasWayCool: In ''The Computer Connection'', he still is -- he's one of the protagonist's [[TheAgeless ageless]] group, going by "Jacy".
