Novel with teleportation and possibly called "Burning Man" [duplicate]

Question

I'm trying to identify a novel that I partially read many years ago.
This is a real long-shot as I remember very little details.
Googling the title is impossible due to the festival of the same name that generates millions of hits.

A novel that I read in English or possible a Dutch translation of a (most likely) English original.
I got it from my local library in the mid to late eighties. I had to return the book before getting half-way into it. I tried to find it later but it had been taken out of the library collection.

I didn't get far into the novel. I don't remember anything about the main character or the plot.
What I do remember:
It is set on Earth in an unspecified near future where teleportation is completely common place. Most people have to ability to do it. People commute to/from work by teleportation.
People can not randomly teleport anywwhere they like. They need to have a clear visual memory of the place they want to go to. There are teleporting stations (like subway stations) all over town with distinctive murals or floor-patterns that people use as targets and they walk to last mile or so to wherever they need to go.
I'm not certain but I seem to recall the teleporatation method is aided by technology, with a computer or AI making sure people don't bump into each other when teleporting. This AI may also keep track of people to prevent them jumping to places they are not allowed to go.

The "burning man" is a guy who is locked into some halfway teleported state and who appears to be "on fire" to people who see him.

Answer 1

I think this is The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester. It was originally released under the title Tiger! Tiger!. The 1980 Dutch translation was titled De Brandende Man, which translates to The Burning Man.

At the time when the book is set, "jaunting"—personal teleportation—has so upset the social and economic balance that the Inner Planets are at war with the Outer Satellites. Gully Foyle of the Presteign-owned merchant spaceship Nomad—an uneducated, unskilled, unambitious man whose life is at a dead end—is marooned in space when the ship is attacked and he alone survives. After six months of his waiting for rescue, a passing spaceship, the Vorga, also owned by the powerful Presteign industrial clan, ignores his signal and abandons him. Foyle is enraged and is transformed into a man consumed by revenge, the first of many transformations.

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Meanwhile, Presteign reveals that PyrE is activated by telepathy, and Robin is enlisted to trigger it to flush out Foyle. Bits of PyrE left exposed by Foyle's tests to determine its purpose cause destruction worldwide, but primarily at Foyle's abandoned encampment in St. Patrick's Cathedral, where Sheffield has brought him. The church partially collapses, killing Sheffield and trapping Foyle, unconscious but alive, over a pit of flame. Suffering from synesthesia brought on by the explosion affecting his neurological implants, Foyle jauntes through space and time as The Burning Man. Finally he lands in the future, where Robin telepathically tells him how to escape from the collapsing cathedral.

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... Bester added to this mix the concept that human beings could learn to teleport, or "jaunte" from point to point, provided they know the exact locations of their departure and arrival and have physically seen the destination, similar to A. E. van Vogt's Gilbert Gosseyn in the 1948 novel The World of Null-A.

Found with a search for novel teleporter accident "burning man"

Answer 2

Some elements of this plot are similar to John Brunner's 1980 novel, The Infinitive of Go.

A new teleportation technology is under suspicion, in that it seems it may change people who travel by "Poster". One of the developers, therefore, sends himself, and finds that the world in which he arrives is subtly changed.

Over time, it is discovered that Posting involves switching between multiple (infinite?) alternate universes.

In the last chapter, it's revealed that one character still knows of an earlier super-secret project, that of testing what happens if someone is sent without an active receiving station.

Answer 3

Could only find this in Dutch, publisher was Meulenhoff, MSF-159.

De hoofdpersoon, Gulliver Foyle, lijdt schipbreuk in de ruimte, maar de bemanning van een passerend ruimteschip weigert hem op te pikken. Hij weet zich op het nippertje te redden en besluit zich te wreken. Bovendien blijkt hij, zonder dat hij dat zelf weet, de beslissende factor te zijn in een oorlog tussen de aarde en enige andere planeten, zodat hij tegelijk jager en gejaagde wordt. Goed opgebouwd en spannend verhaal, dat na 25 jaar nog steeds niet gedateerd is, zodat men van het begin tot het einde geboeid blijft. Karaktertekeningen zijn in dit soort boeken doorgaans wat cliche-achtig, maar deze hoofdpersoon, die zelfs de mensen die van hem houden, opoffert aan zijn wraakzucht, is met enige diepte getekend.

Google Translation:

The main character, Gulliver Foyle, is shipwrecked in space, but the crew of a passing starship refuses to pick him up. He manages to save himself in the nick of time and decides to take revenge. Moreover, without his own knowledge, he turns out to be the decisive factor in a war between Earth and some other planets, so that he becomes hunter and hunted at the same time. Well-constructed and exciting story, which after 25 years is still undated, so that one remains captivated from the beginning to the end. Character drawings in these kinds of books are usually somewhat cliche-like, but this main character, who sacrifices even the people who love him to his revenge, is drawn with some depth.

Answer 4

Hmm! This is getting more interesting. I'm afraid we're all suffering canalized thinking due to how much this resembles the grand finale of TSMD, but you sure blew up my favorite theory by re-reading a bit of TSMD. (BTW, Tonny, did you try to reread the last 30 pages of Burning Man/TSMD? By that point it's a very different book from the first 30 pages.) Anyway, here is a VERY VERY hazy fall back position: how about something from Larry Niven's stories about teleportation? It partially makes an appearance in his KNOWN SPACE series (the Puppeteers have teleportation disks) but mostly it is in alternative future history with stories like "The Last Days of the Permanent Floating Riot Club", see Niven's anthology entitled "Hole in Space" (Honestly this just does NOT sound like what you're talking about either, I'm sorry.)