1953. The first Hugo Award is awarded to the demolished Man. Its author, Alfred Bester, writer for comics, radio, television, and columnist of several major US magazines, signs there one of the brightest and most advance texts precursors of his time, so close by the theme and plot of the recent Minority Report that it seems all the more revolutionary. At the XXIII century, crime no longer exists, predicted even before it is committed. Yet for Ben Reich, wealthy tycoon, murder is the only alternative: the edge of the financial settlement, the giant of global trade saw its offer to merge with rival firm result in a failure. How, then, in a world populated in part by telepaths to more or less acute perceptions, reaching hide his innermost impulses? Ben Reich has thought of everything. His plan is foolproof. Nothing would betray him. Not even his unconscious? Lincoln Powell, extraper 1 (Expert in first class extrasensory perception, able to probe to the depths of the unconscious), investigation, orchestrated masterfully described, begins. In short, everything is there! ... And we are in 1953 ... A stunning text, written from a master hand and served by a surprising style (how, for example, literally transcribe a conversation between several telepaths?) And a sense of intrigue particularly developed, which manages to hold spellbound the reader from the first to the last line, while reserving the delicious pleasure not explain his title in his very last pages. Because finally, what do the demolition? A delight.
