Timeline for Novel with teleportation and possibly called "Burning Man"
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| Feb 1, 2023 at 14:49 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jan 1, 2022 at 14:55 | comment | added | FuzzyBoots | Thank you. No worries on the late accept. We always want people to accept the answer that's right for them, however long it takes. :) | |
| Jan 1, 2022 at 13:22 | comment | added | Tonny | I have come to the realization that my original gut feeling this wasn't the book I was looking for was in fact wrong. I found the Dutch translation I originally read today and it has a somewhat different opening, with a quite different feel than the original English (honestly, it isn't a translation, but a re-write). Add some conflating it with another novel on my part and the fact that I never read the whole novel didn't help either. So I didn't recognize it from scanning the first pages of the English version. So credit where credit is due: I'm (belatedly) accepting this answer. | |
| Jan 1, 2022 at 13:11 | vote | accept | Tonny | ||
| Jan 31, 2020 at 18:45 | comment | added | FuzzyBoots | A. E. van Vogt's The World of Ā is an earlier example of the "can teleport anywhere you know well", but it's only a few people with that ability, and there's no "burning man" teleportation accident. | |
| Jan 31, 2020 at 12:42 | history | edited | SQB | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Formatting; added information on Dutch translation from comments
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| Jan 30, 2020 at 19:31 | comment | added | Tonny | I did a quick search through my ebook collection en discovered that I had grabbed this book from a newsgroup a couple of years ago. I just read through the 1st 30 pages and I can assure you it most definitely NOT the book I'm looking for. I already had my doubts. I've read more by Bester over the years and somehow I never liked his writing style. This one is no exception. It just doesn't feel like something I like to read. | |
| Jan 30, 2020 at 15:26 | comment | added | Organic Marble | The stuff about clear visual memory is 100% on target for TSMD, one of the characters is a teacher who gives classes in this. Also the protagonist himself is the burning man at one point. I would be surprised if this is not the correct answer. However there are basically no AI computers in the book, it is too old for that. You may be mixing up two works. | |
| Jan 30, 2020 at 15:08 | comment | added | Tonny | This doesn't ring any bells whatsoever. I can't recall any space-travel at all in the first part of the novel that I read. | |
| Jan 30, 2020 at 14:54 | history | answered | FuzzyBoots | CC BY-SA 4.0 |