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The Roller Coaster

Alfred Bester

First published May 1953
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

People from the future visit our time in order to indulge in the thrill of violence.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
May 1953 Cover Fantastic, May-June 1953 Ziff-Davis Publishing Company MAGAZINE 80
May 1958 Cover Starburst Signet / New American Library Collection 54
April 1965 Cover Starburst Signet / New American Library Collection 54
April 1965 Cover Starburst Signet / New American Library of Canada Collection 54
August 1967 Cover Amazing Stories, August 1967 Ultimate Publishing Co., Inc. MAGAZINE 106
October 1968 Cover Starburst Sphere Books Collection 54
December 1970 Cover Starburst Signet / New American Library of Canada Collection 54
1973 Cover The Best from Fantastic Manor Books Anthology 79
March 1973 Cover Starburst Sphere Books Collection 54
1976 Cover The Best from Fantastic Robert Hale Anthology
1977 Cover Verrukkelijk Fahrenheit Meulenhoff Collection 215
June 1977 Cover Starburst Pan Books Collection 52
September 1978 Cover Hände weg von Zeitmaschinen Droemer Knaur Collection 59
March 1980 Cover Starburst Signet / New American Library Collection 54
March 1980 Cover Starburst Signet / New American Library of Canada Collection 54
June 1981 Cover Hände weg von Zeitmaschinen Droemer Knaur Collection 59
March 1984 Cover Die Fussangeln der Zeit Heyne Anthology 128
April 1986 Cover Le livre d'or de la science-fiction: Alfred Bester Presses Pocket Collection 179
1991 Cover Aller Glanz der Sterne Suhrkamp Collection
1992 Cover Империя мрака Сибирская Речь Anthology 254
1994 Cover Die Gehäuse der Zeit Heyne Anthology 132
November 1998 Cover Spec-Lit 2 Columbia College Chicago Anthology 88
December 2000 Cover Redemolished ibooks Collection 217
September 2004 Cover Redemolished ibooks Collection
September 2004 Cover Nouvelles des siècles futurs : 80 histoires de science-fiction Omnibus (France) Anthology 195
September 2016 Cover Delirio: Ciencia Ficción y Fantasia, #18 September 2016 La Biblioteca del Laberinto MAGAZINE 132