The Demolished Man

Name: The Demolished Man
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Alfred Bester
ISBN: 9781541484207

Author: Alfred Bester

Narrator: Gerard Doyle

Unabridged: 7 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/26/2017

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

In a world policed by telepaths, Ben Reich plans to commit a crime that hasn't been heard of in seventy years: murder. That's the only option left for Reich, whose company is losing a ten-year death struggle with rival D'Courtney Enterprises. Terrorized in his dreams by The Man With No Face and driven to the edge after D'Courtney refuses a merger offer, Reich murders his rival and bribes a high-ranking telepath to help him cover his tracks. But while police prefect Lincoln Powell knows Reich is guilty, his telepath's knowledge is a far cry from admissible evidence.

About Alfred Bester

Alfred Bester's passionate novels of worldly adventure, high intellect, and tremendous verve, The Stars My Destination and the Hugo Award-winning The Demolished Man, established Bester as a science fiction grandmaster, a reputation that was ratified by the Science Fiction Writers of America shortly before his death in 1987. Bester also was an acclaimed journalist for Holiday magazine, a reviewer for the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and even a writer for Superman.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Manny on December 22, 2015

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Goodreads review by Vit on May 29, 2021

Man will find a way to cheat even in the ideal utopian society – the nature of human being is incorrigible… The Demolished Man is a unique and very idiosyncratic dystopian mystery and an early harbinger of cyberpunk. The tale is taking place in the distant future where psychiatric science is in prime......more

Goodreads review by Apatt on March 27, 2020

I have a bee in my bonnet that I would like to deal with first. I tend to feel annoyed (even though I shouldn’t) when people ask for sci-fi recommendations with the caveat that the book being recommended must not be more than 10 years old. The reason given for this clause is usually because the scie......more

Goodreads review by Bill on March 01, 2024

The Demolished Man (1953), first winner of the Hugo Award, is an ingenious amalgam of noir policier and dystopian science fiction of the mega-corporate/telepathic surveillance variety. It poses the question: what if you are a very rich man who wishes to kill another rich man, but you live in a socie......more