- science fiction, sf, sci-fi, telepathy
Gerald Howson had twisted legs and spine. His face was so ugly even his mother didn't want to look at him. But his telepathic talent was the stongest ever found. Many telepaths created a world of imagination and locked themselves into it until dying of hunger and thirst.
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Classical in form, grave, earnest and character-led.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
- intimateepic
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- Author
- John Brunner
- First published
- 1964
- Pages
- 188
- Publisher
- Ballantine, Del Rey, Walker And Co
- Editions
- 14
- Language
- Dutch, English
- ISBN
- 9780006146117
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John Kilian Houston Brunner was a British author of science fiction novels and stories. His 1968 novel Stand on Zanzibar, about an overpopulated world, won the 1969 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel and the BSFA Award the same year. The Jagged Orbit won the BSFA Award in 1970. His first novel, Galactic Storm, was written under the pen-name Gill Hunt when he was seventeen. He did not start writing full-time until 1958, some years after his military service.
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