Wow, this felt so fresh and exciting like it could have been written recently only they don't write SF this good any more. Not bad for a novel written some sixty years ago. That's when you know that a book truly deserves to be in the SF Masterworks series.So, reading through other people's reviews o...
While i liked the book in general, i was a bit disappointed with the idea that Reich was a galactic focal point. I have no idea here that came from.All of the mountain of evidence that Powell committed murder was not enough to convict him but just the say so of Powell was enough to have him demolish...
2013 will be a science-fiction year for me, that's for sure! I have no idea why I gave up reading SF, but I am rediscovering the pleasure for this genre. Oh, my, I have a lot to catch up with the classics!The Demolished Man is one of these SF classics and I enjoyed it quite a lot. It is like a detec...
I so liked this book! I got really hooked in and zipped through it like magic.It almost got 5 stars, but with the ending being kind of a moralistic one, I had a lot of I guess second thoughts about the 'peepers' and their obvious control over things due to their strong abilities. The 'demolition'...
Jeez, Freudian theory much. I'm not sure what to think of this book. It's quite short and a quick read really but still took me two days to finish. I understand it's a scifi classic, and Bester certainly does a good job at painting a fantastic future. Still, some things bugged me. For a novel that i...
A SF murder mystery with a bit of a twist: since we follow the actions of the murderer closely in the first half, the mystery is not who the killer is, or even how he did it. It's if and how he'll be caught and, to a lesser extent, why he did it in the first place. And it's when the action is follow...
So, this is why I dislike scifi. When I think of scifi, I think of books that do a couple of things:- They immediately introduce you to some silly madeup words for futury sounding things. "Oh no, that's a peeper! Which of course as you know is a guy who can read minds, because that's a thing people ...
This book is so dated that for me it travels beyond being dated into portraying an oddly fascinating alternate reality. I think the future of this book may actually feel stranger to me now than it did to the people reading the book in 1953. They were confronted with a world of flying cars and mini...
Boring. Writing is flat and artificial -- and dated. Reads like a comic book.Of course, I only got through 30+ pages (short attention-span guy that I am), so WTFDIK... I'm sure it's the masterpiece everyone says it is.This Sci-Fi excursion is turning into a very expensive (not to mention, time-consu...
In a world dominated by telepaths known as Espers or Peepers crime is very difficult to get away with. When thoughts and memories are up for grabs a man like Ben Reich, who is premeditating a murder, must employ unorthodox methods to protect his inner most thoughts. He decides to go to a jingle son...
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