In 1985 I bought a 30p second-hand paperback because I liked the title: 'The Demolished Man', by Alfred Bester. This fits into a rare category of novel - short science-fiction - and I read it ...

Take, for instance, The Demolished Man’s good guy, a telepathic cop named Lincoln Powell. Yes, he speaks in Cary Grant–like diction — “A little mercy for your host, please.

Paramount-based producer Robert Evans, along with producer Ray Wagner, have enlisted writer-director Irving Belateche to adapt Alfred Bester's 1953 sci-fi novel "The Demolished Man." The novel ...