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Title: The Roller Coaster Title Record # 63175
Author: Alfred Bester
Date: 1953-05-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English
Synopsis: People from the future visit our time in order to indulge in the thrill of violence.
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Current Tags: contemporary (1), first person point of view (1), time travel (1), violence (1), entertainment (1), masochism (1) Add Tags

Other Titles

Translations
Year Language Title
1977Translated by Walter Relsky
Dutch De achtbaan
1978Translated by Uwe Anton
German Achterbahn
1984Translated by Walter Brumm
German Die Achterbahn
1986Translated by Dominique Haas
French Le grand huit
1992Translated by an unknown hand
Russian [as by ]
2016Translated by Paco Arellano
Spanish Montaña rusa

Publications

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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
Fantastic, May-June 1953 1953-05-00 ed. Howard Browne Ziff-Davis Publishing Company  
$0.35?$: US dollar
164
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
mag W. T. Mars Checkmark
Starburst 1958-05-00 Alfred Bester Signet / New American Library S1524
$0.35?$: US dollar
160
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll Richard Powers Checkmark
Starburst 1965-04-00 Alfred Bester Signet / New American Library D2672
$0.50?$: US dollar
160
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll Richard Powers Checkmark
Starburst 1965-04-00 Alfred Bester Signet / New American Library of Canada D2672
C$0.50?C$: Canadian dollar
160
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll Richard Powers Checkmark
Amazing Stories, August 1967 1967-08-00 ed. Joseph Ross Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc.  
$0.50?$: US dollar
146
digest?Digest-size magazine, including both standard digest size, at about 7" by 4.5", and also large digest, such as recent issues of Asimov's, which are about 8.25" by 5.125".
mag Frank R. Paul Checkmark
Starburst 1968-10-00 Alfred Bester Sphere Books 16071
5/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
158
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll Checkmark
Starburst 1970-12-00 Alfred Bester Signet / New American Library of Canada T4460
C$0.75?C$: Canadian dollar
160
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll Bob Pepper Checkmark
The Best from Fantastic 1973-00-00 ed. Ted White Manor Books 95242
$0.95?$: US dollar
192
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
anth Checkmark
Starburst 1973-03-00 Alfred Bester Sphere Books 0-7221-1610-1
£0.30?£: UK pound
158
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll Colin Hay Checkmark
The Best from Fantastic 1976-00-00 ed. Ted White Robert Hale (Hale SF) 0-7091-5128-4
£3.10?£: UK pound
192
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth  
Verrukkelijk Fahrenheit 1977-00-00 Alfred Bester Meulenhoff (M=SF #123) 90-290-0516-5   349
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll Paul Lehr Checkmark
Starburst 1977-06-00 Alfred Bester Pan Books 0-330-25111-2
£0.60?£: UK pound
155
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll Gino D'Achille Checkmark
Hände weg von Zeitmaschinen 1978-09-00 Alfred Bester Droemer Knaur (Knaur Science Fiction & Fantasy #705) 3-426-00705-3
DM 5.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
176
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll George Jones Checkmark
Starburst 1980-03-00 Alfred Bester Signet / New American Library 0-451-09132-9
$1.75?$: US dollar
160
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll Bob Pepper Checkmark
Starburst 1980-03-00 Alfred Bester Signet / New American Library of Canada 0-451-09132-9
C$1.95?C$: Canadian dollar
160
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll Bob Pepper Checkmark
Hände weg von Zeitmaschinen 1981-06-00 Alfred Bester Droemer Knaur (Knaur Science Fiction & Fantasy #5705) 3-426-05705-0
DM 5.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
175+
[1]
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll George Jones Checkmark
Die Fussangeln der Zeit 1984-03-00 ed. Karl Michael Armer, Wolfgang Jeschke Heyne (Bibliothek der Science Fiction Literatur #28) 3-453-31019-5
DM 7.80?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
346
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
anth R. Michael Payne Checkmark
Le livre d'or de la science-fiction: Alfred Bester 1986-04-28 Alfred Bester Presses Pocket (Presses Pocket - Science Fiction #5234) 2-266-01736-5   312
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll Marcel Laverdet  
Aller Glanz der Sterne 1991-00-00 Alfred Bester Suhrkamp (Phantastische Bibliothek #278) 3-518-38455-4
DM 12.00?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
184
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll  
1992-00-00 ed. uncredited () 5-87251-001-2   544
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
anth
М. Шараев?M. Sharaev
 
Die Gehäuse der Zeit 1994-00-00 ed. Karl Michael Armer, Wolfgang Jeschke Heyne (Heyne Science Fiction & Fantasy #5075) 3-453-07268-5
DM 25.00?DM: German (Deutsche) mark
784
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
anth Karel Thole Checkmark
Spec-Lit 2 1998-11-00 ed. Phyllis Eisenstein Columbia College Chicago 0-932026-48-6
$11.95?$: US dollar
176
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
anth Ed Emshwiller  
Redemolished 2000-12-00 Alfred Bester ibooks 0-7434-0725-3
$14.95?$: US dollar
521
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Simon Danaher Checkmark
Redemolished 2004-09-00 Alfred Bester ibooks 0-7434-8679-X
$7.99?$: US dollar
559
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll Simon Danaher  
Delirio: Ciencia Ficción y Fantasia, #18 September 2016 2016-09-00 ed. Paco Arellano La Biblioteca del Laberinto     216
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
mag Gustav Klimt  
Starburst date unknown Alfred Bester Signet / New American Library T4460
$0.75?$: US dollar
160
pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.
coll Bob Pepper Checkmark
Redemolished date unknown Alfred Bester ibooks 978-0-7434-0725-0
$29.95?$: US dollar
521
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
coll Howard Chaykin Checkmark
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