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Ha, I know just the nerdy factoid to trot out to legitimize the frontpage placement. Brace: These little cat-human conversation pieces embedded within remind m

by sho_hn 2y ago

Ha, I know just the nerdy factoid to trot out to legitimize the frontpage placement. Brace: These little cat-human conversation pieces embedded within remind me enormously of the telepathic conversations in Alfred Bester's mighty genre classic The Demolished Man and their special typesetting. https://speculativerhetoric.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/party.jpg?w=584&h=662 https://speculativerhetoric.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads... https://universesofthemind.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp-1477097207836.jpg https://universesofthemind.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/wp...

anigbrowl 2y ago
Also employed in The Stars My Destination. Criminally underappreciated writer.
- 4sak3n 2y ago
  Is he really criminally underrated if My Stars the Destination features in just about every "best scifi books" list I've ever read? Maybe not as high up as it deserves on those lists but that's hardly criminal underappreciation
  - 4sak3n 2y ago
    The Stars My Destination ... how did I mess that up?
  - anigbrowl 2y ago
    Sure, but it's pretty rare to see people talk much about Bester compared to other SF novelists. Also astonishing to me that none of his work has ever been made into a film that I'm aware of. Same with Jack Vance.