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Author
Index
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Alfred
Bester |
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Title
Index
The |
The
Demolished Man |
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| Year |
1953 |
| Publisher |
Millennium
(Victor Gollancz) |
| ISBN |
1857988221 |
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Synopsis
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In a
world in which the
police have
telepathic powers,
how do you get
away with murder?
Ben Reich heads
a huge 24th
century business
empire, spanning
the solar
system. He
is also an
obsessed, driven
man determined to
murder a
rival. To
avoid capture, in
a society where
murderers can be
detected even
before they commit
their crime, is
the greatest
challenge of his
life. |
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Review
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First-Ever
Winner of the Hugo
Award
"From the
opening nightmare
to the nightmarish
conclusion, The
Demolished Man
pulls you along
with a runaway
freight train of a
plot and Bester's
trademark
classy-yet-crazed
prose.
Wordgames
abound. A
cool cop hunts a
beguilingly mad
bad-guy across the
EEG landscape of a
psychic
twenty-fourth
ventury.
Pulp fiction meets
literature in a
giddying fusion of
wonder and excess,
and yet, in the
Demolition scene
towards the end, The
Demolished Man
also contains what
has to be one of
the scariest and
most haunting
passages in all of
science
fiction."
James Lovegrove |
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Credit:
NASA
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Missile
Row
In a
view from
1965, the
full moon
is out
dazzled by
the lights
of the
launch
gantries
on Missile
Row,
stretching
north
along the
shoreline
of Cape
Canaveral
Air Force
Station. |
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NASA
Image of
the day
archive |
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