Alexander Besher

Alexander Besher (born in China in 1951) is an author of fiction and non-fiction. In addition to novels, screenplays and teleplays, he is a journalist, consulting futurist on Pacific Rim affairs (for the San Francisco-based Global Business Network, the corporate future scenarios think-tank) former editor of Chicago Review and co-founder of The Chicago Review Press (1973–present).

Biography[edit]

Alexander Besher's formative years were in Japan where he grew up and lived for twenty years, graduating from Canadian Academy High School in Kobe and Sophia University in Tokyo.^{[citation needed]}

Besher was contributing editor of InfoWorld. He wrote the internationally syndicated weekly column "Pacific Rim", covering business trends, technology, and cultural trends for a period of six years for The San Francisco Chronicle. This led to his authoring and editing the compendium The Pacific Rim Almanac.^[1]

Works[edit]

Novels[edit]

• Rim Trilogy: science fiction, set in Japan in the 2020s and 2030s (HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster)
  • Rim, Philip K. Dick Award nominee^[2]
  • Mir
  • Chi
• Kabbalah noir genre: literary supernatural action adventure exorcism tales in the style of Hasidic fables.
  • The Clinging, novel and screenplay, set in contemporary San Francisco
  • The Night of the Golem, semi-sequel set in Nazi Berlin
  • The Unchosen, semi-sequel set in 1939/40 Shanghai

Transmedia[edit]

• The Manga Man (2008)

References[edit]

External links[edit]

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