- American Science fiction, Hugo Award Winner, Fiction, science fiction, general, Science fiction
In a world in which the police have telepathic powers, how do you get away with murder? Ben Reichs 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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Grave, earnest, classical in form and contemporary.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- warmbleak
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- Author
- Alfred Bester
- First published
- 1951
- Pages
- 208
- Publisher
- Garland Pub., Lightyear Pr, Penguin Books Ltd
- Editions
- 32
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781857988222
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Alfred Bester was an American science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor and scripter for comic strips and comic books. Though successful in all these fields, he is best remembered for his science fiction, including The Demolished Man, winner of the inaugural Hugo Award in 1953. - Wikipedia
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