/lit/ - Literature

A fast-paced 50's revenge SF novel of teleportation, inter-planetary warfare, cargo cults, prison escape, gratuitous violence, rape, corporate intrigue, bio-modification, telepathy, atom bomb analogies and synaesthesia. This was enjoyable even with some of its shortcomings, a little dialogue on the comic book scale, and perhaps being too brisk and madcap here and there. Aside from the action, the most interesting thing about this book is the portrayal of an Earth society that has been completely re-restructured after the discovery of teleportation. I can appreciate how this book would have blown the minds of a teenager in 1956, and it's still a fun read. 4/5 dinosaurs, sits among the best I've read from the era - and superior to his The Demolished Man.

I want to read some more good sci-fi novels since what's on TV and Movies are shit these days. I just read pic related and read the wikipedia afterwards which describe it as "unfilmable" due to the concepts and depictions in the novel. Does /lit/ have any other thought provoking sci-fi novels with such trippy descriptions that they will probably never be made in a movie?