T.P. Chai <104674.3064@compuserve.com> asks:
> Did you choose the name Bester because it sounds like B-st-ard?
> My question is, were any of the members of the new Gray Council
> on the old Council?

Yeah, some of the new council would've been on the old one.

And Bester was named for a well-known SF writer, now gone.

jms