Alexander Besher

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Alexander Besher (born in China in 1951, died on October 8, 2020) 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).

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Biography

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]

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  1. Besher, Alexander (1991). The Pacific Rim Almanac . HarperCollins. p. 854. ISBN   9780062730657.
  2. "1994 Philip K. Dick Award". March 8, 2003. Retrieved 2013-06-10.