Pros: Bester is the wellspring (gutter?) from which cyberpunk sprang. Cons: I don't much like cyberpunk.
The Preamble Broad reading habits are essential for a well-rounded mind. The mark of an inquisitive intelligence is its willingness to cross new thresholds and experience new perspectives. Recognizing this I try to be eclectic when I peruse ...
Pros: Thought provoking, inventive use of the language and believable Cons: None
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written in 1951 by Alfred Bester. Actually, it is his second book "The...
Pros: Fascinating central concept, Stylishly written, Historical significance (1st HUGO winner) Cons: Plot details not entirely credible, ‘Catharsis’ not entirely fulfilling
THE PROBLEM IS 'THE STARS'... Yep; that's it. If one hasn't read Alfred Bester's other '50s novel, the later The Stars my Destination, one can easily give The Demolished Man a 5-star rating. I happened to have read the ...
Pros: Yes...lots of them. Cons: Bester's prose style is unusual
The Demolished Man is an extraordinary novel, winner of the first Hugo award and the masterpiece of novelist Alfred Bester, he creates here a giddying world, three hundred years in the future, where thousands of telepathic humans have been...
Pros: excellent thoughtful treatment of a world where telepathy is a concrete reality Cons: I can't fault it. Excellent.
Winner of the first Hugo award. Besters' classic, The Demolished man, demonstrates a world where widespread telepathy has abolished murder in society, and demonstrates how this can be achieved through the story of a man determined to commit the ...
Pros: Powerful genre-shifting and intelligent story with a genuine sense of tension Cons: All wrapped up a little too neatly at the end
The problem with looking to the future is that you quickly become trapped in the past. Asimov's work is justly famous, and in the robot novels some fine pieces of detective work, but looking back on it now seems very 50s and 60s, very old and outdated....
Pros: innovative and creative Cons: not any that are tangible
The nightmare, waking screaming, running from the Man Without a Face...
Ben Reich, rich, powerful, influential and filled to the brim with his own greatness, lives in a future where mind-readers are used by the police to ferret out criminals...
Pros: A must read! Cons: Can something be too good?
While this book is dated, its futurist visions don't seem it. Winning the first hugo award, this is a great read. Like all hugo award winners this book can be read on whatever level you want. Alfred Bester, coming from pulp science fiction, has constant...
Paperback, Psychoshop The Black Place of the Soul-Changer was doing business in Rome six centuries before Christ. It will probably be there on the last day of the cosmos. Y...
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