Title: The Die-Hard

Title: The Die-Hard Title Record # 63174
Author: Alfred Bester
Date: 1958-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: English

Synopsis: In the future, an old man laments the increasing domestication of humanity.

User Rating: 8.00 (1 vote) Your vote: Not cast VOTE
Current Tags: obsolescence (1), aging (1), first contact (1), progress (1) Add Tags

Other Titles

Translations

Year	Language	Title
1977^ⓘTranslated by Warner Flamen	Dutch	De man die niet van ophouden wist
1978^ⓘTranslated by Uwe Anton	German	Er wollte nicht sterben
1980^ⓘTranslated by Michelangelo Spada	Italian	L'irriducibile

Publications

Displaying all variants and translations • Do not display translations • Do not display variants or translations

Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories	1978-03-00	ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin Harry Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander	Doubleday	0-385-13044-9	$8.95^?$: US dollar	xvi+ 271	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Peter Rauch
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
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
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
Urania #827	1980-03-16	ed. Carlo Fruttero, Franco Lucentini	Mondadori	827	Lit 1,000^?Lit: Italian lira	192	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	Karel Thole
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories	1980-08-00	ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander	Avon	0-380-50773-0	$2.50^?$: US dollar	xx+ 296	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
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories	1980-09-00	ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin Harry Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander	Pan Books	0-330-26155-X	£1.75^?£: UK pound	302	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	John Harris
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
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
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories	date unknown	ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander	Avon	0-380-50773-0	C$2.75^?C$: Canadian dollar	xx+ 296	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
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories	date unknown	ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander	Avon	0-380-50773-0	$3.95^?$: US dollar	xx+ 296	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
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
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories	date unknown	ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander	Avon	0-380-50773-0	$3.25^?$: US dollar	xx+ 296	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories	date unknown	ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander	Avon	0-380-50773-0	$3.95^?$: US dollar	296	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

View all covers for The Die-Hard (logged in users can change User Preferences to always display covers on this page)

Title: The Die-Hard

You are not logged in. If you create a free account and sign in, you will be able to customize what is displayed.

Other Titles

Publications