by Alfred Bester
A very good book. The book is about a future society in which people can jaunt. Jaunting is teleportation caused by the power of the mind. The book itself jaunts. It moves at lighting speed from scene to scene, The action is furious and fast, and the book hurls you forward.The book is about the...
The enormously high praise I've heard about this book almost spoiled it for me by setting my expectations impossibly high. Fortunately, it did a pretty good job of fulfilling them.This is a short, frenetically paced, action packed novel that weaves in numerous characters and plot developments. It do...
This is a novel about Gully Foyle a seemingly worthless crewman on a spaceship who was abandoned to his fate when he could (and should) have been rescued by a passing ship. He vows revenge on those who abandoned him and cuts a violent path to get to them, picking up on his way an education, tattoos,...