Golem100 by Alfred Bester

[james_davis_nicoll]

What could possibly go wrong with a little harmless Satanism between friends?

Golem100 by Alfred Bester

Comments

Footnote¹⁰⁰

[bolindbergh]

Complaining about the missing footnote would be an unfunny cheap shot.

Re: Footnote¹⁰⁰

[chrysostom]

It'd be a LITTLE bit funny.

[(Anonymous)]

Footnote 3 also applies to the Spenser novels, which have their heart in the right place, I'm sure, but...

[james_davis_nicoll]

Boy, Timescape books was hit or miss....

[patrick_morris_miller]

The other year I read The Mind Masters for the first time since, maybe, sixth grade.

Boy howdy is that book misogynist.

[jreynolds197]

I read this one when it came out. I was able to get through to the end, said 'WTF?' and set it aside. Haven't read it since.

One of the worst books I finished, I think.

[anne]

I picked this up in the late 1980s. I remember the strange reason for one character's colorblindness, the sex-related death at the very end, and absolutely nothing else. I decided it's okay for this to be my one and only Bester.

[chrysostom]

The Demolished Man and The Stars My Destination are quite good!

[oh6]

I recall seeing this in a store and wondering what Bester had been up to in the meantime, but I heard it was terrible before I got as far as leafing through it.

[carbonel]

I'd liked everything else of Bester's that I'd read, so I bought this one new in paperback when it came out. But I noped out of after not too far along. I can't remember how far I got, but I'm glad to see this review validates my action.

[dormouse1953]

I read this when it came out. I recall the illustrations, and I think there was some James Joyce influence. I was very into Joyce at the time.

I even read The Deceivers from 1981, but remember little of it.

There was also a 1953 mainstream novel, Who He?, also published as The Rat Race, about the early days of television in New York. Republished in the UK in the eighties. Rather good, I thought. It had a dénouement so much like an episode of the BBC Tony Hancock sitcom that I'm sure the scriptwriters had read the novel.