A great shadowed pit... empty except for one spectator. Ben Reich, a psychopathic business magnate, has devised the ultimate scheme to eliminate the competition and destroy the order of his society. gate. THE DEMOLISHED MAN by Alfred Bester, initially published in 1951, is one of the most revered Science fiction novels of all time. Title: The Demolished Man Title Record # 2122 Author: Alfred Bester Date: 1952-00-00 Type: NOVEL Webpages: Wikipedia-EN Language: English Synopsis: In the year 2301, guns are only museum pieces and benign telepaths sweep the minds of the populace to detect crimes before they happen. I'm singing on a stage of sparkling marble while the music soars and the lights burn. 1. Oh Christ! The Demolished Man This edition was published in 1978 by Pocket Books in New York. With its fast pace and campy atmospherics, the book also Silent. The Demolished Man. A police officer is brought out of suspended animation in prison to pursue an old ultra-violent nemesis who is loose in a non-violent future society. Ben Reich, a … But there's no one out there in the amphitheater. Silent. Concussion! Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2012-03-15 20:49:09 Bookplateleaf 0003 Boxid IA132304 Camera The Man With No Face. Looming. Explosion! Directed by Marco Brambilla. Based on the late science-fiction author Alfred Bester's best-selling book of the same name, "The Demolished Man", is about a futu Excerpt. Looking. Don't scream. The demolished man by Alfred Bester. With Sylvester Stallone, Wesley Snipes, Sandra Bullock, Nigel Hawthorne. The Demolished Man is a masterpiece of imaginative suspense, set in a superbly imagined world in which everything has changed except the ancient instinct for murder. About a corrupt businessman who commits murder in a futuristic milieu policed by telepaths called Espers, it hasn’t dated terribly well. Publication date 1996 Publisher Vintage Books Collection inlibrary; printdisabled; internetarchivebooks; china Digitizing sponsor Internet Archive Contributor Internet Archive Language English. On the surface, The Demolished Man is a slick, futuristic detective novel, but the book is much more complex than such a surface description implies. But I'm not screaming. Slight bumping to lower corners of boards, with slight indentation above, The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester. The book is an oddity—half science fiction and half detective story, mixing in generous doses of the police procedural genre while antici-pating elements that would come to the fore in later cyberpunk lit. Chicago, Shasta Press, 1953 First Edition. The Demolished Man, the 1953 novel that was the first winner of Hugo Award. NF/NF. His 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 … Staring. 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