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Oddy and Id

Alfred Bester

First published August 1951
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Synopsis

A professor believes that one of his students is statistically prone to being lucky all the time, and teams up with other scholars to attempt to harness this talent for the good of humanity.

Publications (27)

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
August 1951 Cover The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1951 Frederick Fell Anthology 208
September 1951 Cover The Best Science-Fiction Stories: 1951 Frederick Fell Anthology 208
May 1955 Cover Frontiers in Space: Selections from The Best Science Fiction Stories Bantam Books Anthology 1
May 1958 Cover Starburst Signet / New American Library Collection 61
April 1965 Cover Starburst Signet / New American Library Collection 61
April 1965 Cover Starburst Signet / New American Library of Canada Collection 61
October 1968 Cover Starburst Sphere Books Collection 61
December 1970 Cover Starburst Signet / New American Library of Canada Collection 61
March 1973 Cover Starburst Sphere Books Collection 61
October 1975 Cover Strange Gifts: Eight Stories of Science Fiction Thomas Nelson Anthology 84
October 1975 Cover Strange Gifts Thomas Nelson / SFBC Anthology 79
July 1976 Cover Star Light, Star Bright: The Great Short Fiction of Alfred Bester Volume II Berkley/Putnam Collection 47
December 1976 Cover Starlight: The Great Short Fiction of Alfred Bester Nelson Doubleday / SFBC Omnibus 242
June 1977 Cover Starburst Pan Books Collection 60
July 1977 Cover Starlight: The Great Short Fiction of Alfred Bester Berkley Medallion Omnibus 263
February 1978 Star Light, Star Bright Gollancz Collection
1979 Cover Star Light, Star Bright: The Great Short Fiction of Alfred Bester Volume 2 Fontana Collection 46
March 1980 Cover Starburst Signet / New American Library Collection 61
March 1980 Cover Starburst Signet / New American Library of Canada Collection 61
September 1984 Cover The Great SF Stories 12 (1950) DAW Books Anthology 154
September 1984 Cover The Great SF Stories 12 (1950) DAW Books / New American Library of Canada Anthology 154
1988 Cover Isaac Asimov Presents the Golden Years of Science Fiction: Sixth Series Bonanza Books / Crown Publishers Anthology 459
November 1997 Cover Virtual Unrealities: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester Vintage Books Collection 22
November 1997 Cover Virtual Unrealities: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester Topeka Bindery Collection
August 1998 Virtual Unrealities: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester Vintage Books / SFBC Collection
March 2009 Cover Strange Gifts Wildside Press Anthology
May 2013 Cover Virtual Unrealities: The Short Fiction of Alfred Bester Byron Preiss Visual Publications Collection |3