The Demolished Man – Alfred Bester (1953)

The first Hugo Award winner — and still one of the strangest crime stories ever written. In a world where telepaths make murder almost impossible, one man tries anyway.
Bester writes like a jazz solo: fragmented, fast, and wildly inventive. His mix of psychology, typography, and pulp energy makes this feel more cyberpunk than 1950s pulp had any right to be.

Rating: 4 / 5