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Somehow missed this one over the years... until I was given a copy by my dear friend from Sweden, thus proving you can teach an old dog new tricks - or at least proving you can get an old guy to read an old book and be confident he'll enjoy every page...
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An absolutely fantastic, undeservably forgotten SF Masterpiece. Relentless action in prose that hardly ever skips a beat. Gully Foyle was also an atypical science fiction "hero" for that time - dark, morally ambivalent and considerably anti-heroic. Bester helped to expand the boundaries of Science Fiction as a medium through this novel, the Demolished Man and his wondeful short stories and deserves to be remembered for that.
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I loved the storytelling--it's cinematic and paced like an action movie. I loved the distinct world he created and the imaginings of the future. I was willing to somewhat ignore his use of words like "Oriental" and "Negro" because that's what you are trained to do: forgive white guys in the 1950s thier racism. But ultimately that plus the misogyny made this book unlovable for me.
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I will start this again when I get my hands on the book. It seems to be scarce in Mexico... :P
Some interesting concepts, I just didn't like the main character or the story.
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Just amazingly good.
Nov 09, 2009
Sarah Sammis
marked it as to-read
Oct 28, 2010
Erich Franz Linner-Guzmann
rated it
it was amazing
Shelves:
fiktion,
fantasy,
dystopian,
favourite,
cyberpunk,
meisterwerk,
speculative-fiction,
computer,
psychologisch,
science-fiction
Jul 20, 2015
Lynne
marked it as to-read-scifi
Sep 29, 2016
Drew Kerlee
marked it as to-read
