Dragaera

OT: The Demolished Man coming to big screen!

Thu Aug 7 01:45:03 PDT 2003

Steven Kevin Dexter, I believe.  From Dark Genesis: The Birth of the Psi
Corps.

Curtis

-----Original Message-----
From: David Goldfarb [mailto:goldfarb at OCF.Berkeley.EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, 05 August, 2003 2:34 AM
To: dragaera at dragaera.info
Subject: Re: OT: The Demolished Man coming to big screen!


>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?)

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