Redemolished is a collection of short stories, interviews, and other articles and essays by science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 author Alfred Bester

Alfred Bester

Alfred Bester was an American science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor and scripter for comic strips and comic books...

. Published in 2000 (thirteen years after Bester's death) by iBooks, inc, ISBN 0-7434-8679-X, edited by Richard Raucci.

Redemolished contains the short stories:

• "The Probable Man"
• "Hell is Forever"
• "The Push of a Finger"
• "The Roller Coaster"
• "The Lost Child"
• "I'll Never Celebrate New Year's Again"
• "Out of This World"
• "The Animal Fair"
• "Something Up There Likes Me
  Something Up There Likes Me
  "Something Up There Likes Me" is a science fiction short story by Alfred Bester. The story was first published in Astounding: The John W Campbell Memorial Anthology.-Plot introduction:...
  
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• "The Four-Hour Fugue
  The Four-Hour Fugue
  The Four-Hour Fugue is a short story by science fiction writer Alfred Bester. It was nominated for the 1975 Hugo Award for Best Short Story of the Year...
  
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It also contains three fictional articles published in Holiday Magazine:

• "Gourmet Dining in Outer Space"
• "Place of the Month: The Moon"
• "The Sun"

and four essays:

• "Science Fiction and the Renaissance Man", originally delivered as a lecture at the University of Chicago
  University of Chicago
  The University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
  
   in 1957. The other lecturers included Cyril Kornbluth, Robert A. Heinlein
  Robert A. Heinlein
  Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction writer. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most influential and controversial authors of the genre. He set a standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of...
  
  , and Robert Bloch
  Robert Bloch
  Robert Albert Bloch was a prolific American writer, primarily of crime, horror and science fiction. He is best known as the writer of Psycho, the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock...
  
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• "A Diatribe Against Science Fiction"
• "The Perfect Composite Science Fiction Author"
• "My Affair with Science Fiction"

Also included are interviews with John Huston

John Huston

John Marcellus Huston was an American film director, screenwriter and actor. He wrote most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon , The Treasure of the Sierra Madre , Key Largo , The Asphalt Jungle , The African Queen , Moulin Rouge...

 and Rex Stout

Rex Stout

Rex Todhunter Stout was an American writer noted for his detective fiction. Stout is best known as the creator of the larger-than-life fictional detective Nero Wolfe, described by reviewer Will Cuppy as "that Falstaff of detectives." Wolfe's assistant Archie Goodwin recorded the cases of the...

, a conversation with Woody Allen

Woody Allen

Woody Allen is an American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, jazz musician, author, and playwright. Allen's films draw heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema...

, brief articles on Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000...

 and Robert A. Heinlein

Robert A. Heinlein

Robert Anson Heinlein was an American science fiction writer. Often called the "dean of science fiction writers", he was one of the most influential and controversial authors of the genre. He set a standard for science and engineering plausibility and helped to raise the genre's standards of...

, two deleted prologues and an analysis of The Demolished Man

The Demolished Man

The Demolished Man, by Alfred Bester, is a science fiction novel that was the first Hugo Award winner in 1953. The story was first serialized in three parts, beginning with the January 1952 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction, followed by publication of the novel in 1953. The novel is dedicated to...

, and a memoriam for Bester written by Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000...

, with an introduction by Gregory S. Benford.