>Alfred? Bester? That's the name of that little creep who worked for >Psycorp in Babylon5! I don't suppose this is a co-incidence, is it? When the character was introduced JMS was quite open about the name being an homage to the author of _The Demolished Man_. That's also been established as canon for the series, albeit in the novels. (A fairly obscure B5 trivia question: what was Alfred Bester's birth name?) -- David Goldfarb <*>|"Think of me as a brief electromagnetic anomaly goldfarb at ocf.berkeley.edu | who told you some true things for your own good." goldfarb at csua.berkeley.edu |-- Babylon 5, "Day of the Dead"