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The very first Hugo winner of all time, The Demolished Man is more like a crime novel that happens to be in a science fiction universe, an earth where nobody has committed a murder in 70 years because so many people are trained to be telepathic.
The people who have telepathy are referred to as Espers, and go through training, and fall into three categories depending on their abilities.
This is a good read because of the action (fast-paced) but also because I love all the little details of the wo ...more
The people who have telepathy are referred to as Espers, and go through training, and fall into three categories depending on their abilities.
This is a good read because of the action (fast-paced) but also because I love all the little details of the wo ...more
A pulpy energy drives this science-fiction noir through writing that is sometimes clunky, sometimes excellent (check out Jenny Colvin's review for a quote of the great passage that describes an exploded ceramics plant), a future setting with ESP-endowed "peepers" investigating the first murder in many years, and interesting if too broadly-characterized characters. This future has some inevitable dated elements mixed with some quite interesting details, and there's a whole Freudian subtext that's
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Back in 1939, a bunch of New York science fiction fanboys got together and organized a convention, to coincide with the 1939 World's Fair (usually remembered for its slogan "The World of Tomorrow" and for which Walt Disney created the "It's a Small World" attraction) which they pompously called the "World Science Fiction Convention." They considered the convention such a success (with around 200 people attending) that these fanboys started a tradition of taking a vote to determine where the next
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The Demolished Man is more of a crime caper novel than a straight sci-fi book. Set in New York 300 years in the future, most of the technology in Bester's book seems quaint now and his Espers, a more evolved human with mind-reading capabilities, only offer some opportunities for humor and confusion, nothing too involved.
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