The demolished man5/19/2023 The murder is shown in first person so you know Reich is guilty and get to follow along as finds a surprising way to block the mind readers around him. The detective in the story is at the highest skill level of so-called "espers" or "brain peepers". The setting is a strange future world in which there are settlements on other planets and their satellites, there are rental cars called "jumpers" that can fly short distances, and many people can read minds but there are different levels of mind-reading ability and an exclusive group that only the mind readers can belong to. Set in the 24th century, The Demolished Man is the story of a wealthy business owner, Ben Reich, who decides he must kill his competition, literally, and the mind-reading detective who uses his fine-tuned ESP skills to prove the killer's guilt. I only knew that I wanted to read something very different from my previous read, The Evening Chorus. I had no idea what I was getting into when I picked up The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester and began reading.
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