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The Demolished Man by Alfred Bester

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Ted Gioia
Jan 01, 2000
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Imagine a world without murder. Then use it as the setting for a murder mystery.

That's the challenge Alfred Bester sets himself in his unconventional cult classic The Demolished Man, the 1953 novel that was the first winner of Hugo Award. The book is an oddity—half science fiction and half detective story, mixing in generous doses of the police procedur…

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