Kirkus Reviews wrote, 'Outrageous, erratic, brilliant Bester is back-with a generous, ultimately unsatisfying mix of fantasy, occult, science-fiction, and psycho-babble. In any event, his talent had decayed to the point where he could no longer get his message across in mere words.)'

( Charles Platt informs me that Bester provided his own illos, but there were copyright problems. Either he had now decided to give the message straight, or he felt that the Jack Gaughan illustrations-the best part of the book-provided enough dazzlement and enchantment by themselves. Bester seemed to be haranguing his audience about the general evil of humanity and-a theme that had been much more tangential before-the war of the sexes. The next one, Golem100, was worse, nasty as well as incoherent. His long-awaited novel, variously called The Indian Giver, Extro, and The Computer Connection, was a major disappointment-a confused farrago of old ideas and gimmicks. Hlavaty, an editor of The New York Review of Science Fiction, wrote that Bester returned to writing science fiction 'in the Seventies, only to give an unintentional example of his own theme of the unrecoverability of the past. The demon is tracked through the physical and spirit worlds by Gretchen Nunn, a master of psychodynamics Blaise Shima, a brilliant and famous chemist and a clever local police officer, Subadar Ind'dni.Īrthur D.

The beast of pure evil, Golem 100, is raised each time the group practices their ritual, embarking on a rampage of rape, torture and murder. In a city of the future, a group of bored wealthy women begin dabbling in ancient satanic rituals, unaware that their rites are actually working. It was based on Bester's short story ' The Four-Hour Fugue'. Currently out of print, it was published by Simon & Schuster in 1980. Golem 100 is science fiction novel by American writer Alfred Bester.

Γκόλεμ 100, Τόμος Β' by Alfred Bester