Tender Loving Rage is a novel by Alfred Bester, a writer best known for his science fiction.

In his 1991 article, "Alfred Bester's Tender Loving Rage" (reprinted in Platt's Loose Canon [2001]), his friend Charles Platt explains that Bester wrote the novel around 1959 using the title Tender Loving Rape.

The book went unsold for many years, until Platt (who had read the manuscript earlier while working at Avon in 1972) persuaded Bester to allow him to get the book published by a small press; Platt suggested the change of title and Bester agreed.

Arthur D. Hlavaty, a former editor of The New York Review of Science Fiction, described it as "a mimetic novel called Tender Loving Rape, which was posthumously published with its title minimally but cleverly emended to the less offensive Tender Loving Rage.

Like all of Bester's books, it was ambitious: by turns a picaresque journey, a suspense novel, and a love story (this last being something he had never attempted before).