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Review title: Htich your wagon...
Product review: This, quite frankly, is my favorite sci-fi book. Alfred Bester is the hidden genius of sci-fi, overshadowed by the amiable popularity of Heinlein and the visions of Asimov.What Bester does in this and to a lesser extent in the Demolished Man is take a hero and stretch him into an unrecognizable, almost Heathcliffesque proportion. But in that stretch the hero (now anti-hero) is believable and human. Bester is different from his contemporaries (and not at all like his supposed 'heirs' in cyberpunk, but that's a different story) because he uses human emotion as his template, not human sociological patterns, though this is a pattern in his stories. Overall, Bester is by far my favorite speculative author, because he is not afraid to do weird things but also not afraid to make a rapist and vengeful man into a hero.
