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Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. The Teleportation Accident Quotes Showing of Somewhere in northern Rhodesia there was a bull elephant who had got drunk on fermented marula fruit, rampaged through a nearby village, and fallen asleep in a ditch, and was now pleasantly surprised to find itself greeting the day with only the mild headache that follows a couple of bottles of good red wine… Perhaps if he got in touch with the relevant authorities he could get this unfortunate little mix-up corrected, but he would have to do so without moving his head or opening his eyes. Otherwise he would die from the pain. Or to put it another way, it's as if all the different weights and cares of the world have been lifted from your shoulders to he replaced by a single, much larger sort of consolidated weight. Your limbs stop working and you can't really talk. If you take enough then it can last for hours and hours, but it seems like even longer because time slows down. They truly believe that goodness has some causal relationship with beauty. Which is idiotic, yes, but no more idiotic than you are, Egon. When you see a girl like Adele Hitler with an innocent, pretty face, can you honestly tell me you don't assume she must be an angelic person? Even though it makes about as much sense as astrology. And how to Lay them. He referred to it constantly, like a psalter, with an inexhaustible excitement at the notion that it was possible to seduce a woman just by following a rigorous system of instructions. The problem was, there wasn't much in it that he felt he could put to practical use. Run to the kitchen while she's still snoozing fit to bust, and come back with what I like to call the Egg Majestique. That's one of every type of egg on a tray: a soft-boiled egg, a hard-boiled egg, an egg over easy, an egg sunny side up, a poached egg, a devilled egg, a pickled egg, a coddled egg, a scrambled egg, a one-egg omelette, and a shot of egg nog for the hangover. No dame will be able to believe you know so many ways to cook eggs. Egg protein is good for the manly function, and after you've pulled off the Egg Majestique, you'll probably need it, if you know what I mean. Which is why I'm absolutely not going if we don't get some coke. It's incredibly boring. You know how it is. You catch sight of an old flame and get this breathless animal prickle like a fox in a room with a hound. But that's no consolation to Egon Loeser, whose carnal misfortunes will push him from the experimental theaters of Berlin to the absinthe bars of Paris to the physics laboratories of Los Angeles, trying all the while to solve two mysteries: Was it really a deal with Satan that claimed the life of his hero, Renaissance set designer Adriano Lavicini, creator of the so-called Teleportation Device? And why is it that a handsome, clever, modest guy like him can't-just once in a while-get himself laid? Ned Bauman has crafted a stunningly inventive, exceptionally funny, dangerously unsteady and largely coherent novel about sex, violence, space, time, and how the best way to deal with history is to ignore it. Beauman is undoubtedly a writer of prodigious talent, and there are enough ideas [here] If there was ever any worry that [Beauman] might have crammed all his ideas into his first book, the prize-winning Boxer, Beetle , this makes it clear he kept a secret bunker of his best ones aside. But what a wormhole! An unquestionably brilliant novel, ribald and wise in equal measure Witty and sometimes deeply moving. A stunningly inventive, exceptionally funny, dangeoursly unsteady and largely coherent novel about sex, violence, space, time, and how the best way to deal with history is to ignore it. You can unsubscribe from newsletters at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in any newsletter. The Teleportation Accident | The Booker Prizes

It's incredibly boring. You know how it is. You catch sight of an old flame and get this breathless animal prickle like a fox in a room with a hound. And then all night you have to seem carefree and successful and elated, which is a pretence that for some reason you feel no choice but to maintain even though you know they're better qualified than anyone else in the world to detect immediately that you're really the same hapless cunt as ever. The fact that you are so neurotic about your past lovers makes it both fortunate and predictable that you have so few of them. It's one of those elegant self-regulating systems that one so often finds in nature. Loesers teleportatieongeluk was op geen stukken na zo ernstig. Er vielen geen doden. Het Allianztheater werd niet verwoest. Alleen Klugweils beide armen raakten uit de kom. Dat werd overigens pas later vastgesteld. Het enige wat Loeser en Blumstein zagen nadat ze waren toegesneld, was dat Klugweil half uit zijn riemen hing met zijn armen en benen in rare hoeken, lijkbleek en met uitpuilende ogen. Het schouwspel deed Loeser onweerstaanbaar denken aan een stel bovenmaatse, bleke mannelijke geslachtsdelen die op pijnlijke wijze klem zaten in een sportbroekje. Je armen en benen doen het niet meer en je kunt niet meer goed praten. Als je genoeg inneemt kan het uren duren, maar het lijkt nog langer omdat de tijd vertraagt. Uit een korte forensische reconstructie van enkele minuten bleek zelfs dat hij vermoedelijk had geprobeerd zelf jamdonuts te maken van weinig meer dan rauwe kool en agostura. Show 0 comments. Sign up Already have an account? Update preferences. Comments Share your thoughts and debate the big issues. Already registered? Log in. Cancel Delete comment. Cancel Flag comment. Independent Premium comments 0 Independent Premium comments Open comments 0 open comments. Join the discussion. Join the discussion Create a commenting name to join the debate Submit. Reply Delete 0 0. Cancel Post. Forgotten your password? Want an ad-free experience? If there was ever any worry that [Beauman] might have crammed all his ideas into his first book, the prize-winning Boxer, Beetle , this makes it clear he kept a secret bunker of his best ones aside. But what a wormhole! An unquestionably brilliant novel, ribald and wise in equal measure Witty and sometimes deeply moving. A stunningly inventive, exceptionally funny, dangeoursly unsteady and largely coherent novel about sex, violence, space, time, and how the best way to deal with history is to ignore it. See larger image. NPR Choice page

Yet its almost offensively extravagant presentation of these cerebral murmurings, from the over-saturation in cross-genre pastiches to the at-times gaudy excessiveness of its language, make it a limited success in realizing its ambitions. Loeser is the stage designer whose Teleportation Device breaks down on opening night, the pathetic sex-starved Berlin bohemian who crosses oceans for an unattainable vagina only to give it up when he finally has the chance, the American refugee too lazy to read through the letters of his Jewish friend who is being persecuted in Europe. Meantime, Loeser encounters an American scientist who is reinventing the Teleportation Device that his predecessor, one Lavicini of s Venice, was presented in a disastrous theater show centuries ago. But Loeser, egoist-expiring-in-self-pity that he is, cannot help but ignore the making of history around him, turning his back on the Holocaust and the poisonous intrigues surrounding the Device. His Hitler is not Adolf, who he hardly thinks of at all, but Adele Hitler, a beautiful girl he wants desperately to sleep with. Ultimately, Loeser recognizes the subjectivity of all experiences lived in time:. Please note that this product is not available for purchase from Bloomsbury. Long-listed for the Man Booker Prize, The Teleportation Accident is a hilarious sci-fi noir about sex, Satan, and teleportation devices. When you haven't had sex in a long time, it feels like the worst thing that could ever happen. If you're living in Germany in the s, it probably isn't. But that's no consolation to Egon Loeser, whose carnal misfortunes will push him from the experimental theaters of Berlin to the absinthe bars of Paris to the physics laboratories of Los Angeles, trying all the while to solve two mysteries: Was it really a deal with Satan that claimed the life of his hero, Renaissance set designer Adriano Lavicini, creator of the so-called Teleportation Device? And why is it that a handsome, clever, modest guy like him can't-just once in a while-get himself laid? As a friend tells him, he and the Nazis share a belief that "goodness has some causal kinship with beauty". His chasing her across Europe and America is a byproduct of his cognitive dissonance, his inability to think about the millions dying, off page. Both Perec's parents died during the second world war and the novel, although comic, is implicitly about the Holocaust, about the ease with which absences go unnoticed. Some reviewers did not notice that the letter "e" was missing. Whereas Perec resolutely pushes the reader away from grasping that absence, Beauman is more generous — history forces its way back in. There is so much pleasure in the unstable elements of the story that I couldn't help feel a loss as the wheels of the plot started to turn. Luckily, the setting up of various false leads, reveals and tricks are worth it for the brilliant finale. If there was ever any worry that he might have crammed all his ideas into his first book, the prize-winning Boxer, Beetle , this makes it clear he kept a secret bunker of his best ones aside. Ned Beauman. The Teleportation Accident by Ned Beauman — review. Joe Dunthorne.

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Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Start your review of The Teleportation Accident. May 02, Forrest rated it it was ok. An Apologia for Lemming Life is too short. There are too many books that will be amazing reads. They are physically on my shelf, staring at me. This is not one of them. I've been on Goodreads for a few years now. Seven, to be exact. In that time, I have not lemmed a book. Not a single one. Oh, I've crawled my way through some real duds. I've persevered through some that started slow and ended strong. I've appreciated some for their fabulous writing, even when I might not fully understand what's hap An Apologia for Lemming Life is too short. I've appreciated some for their fabulous writing, even when I might not fully understand what's happening. And others I've liked for a rip-roaring plot, though the writing was pedestrian. I am proud that I haven't yet lemmed a book. Today, I swallow my pride. Maybe it's because I've been reading some fantastic fiction and non-fiction lately. Maybe it's because I have more writing projects than ever before. Maybe it's because I know that college football season is coming up and I will watch TV again no, I have not watched one TV show since last football season - I just don't watch much TV and not have as much time to read. Maybe it's because I have Joyce and Proust and Nabakov waiting for me. Yes, the writing is good, even brilliant in places. But the characters - I could not even take enough interest in them to be able to differentiate one from another. Besides, their social brand of hedonism left me feeling, well, bored. Many of my Goodreads friends have written reviews praising this work, friends that I hold in high regard and whose advice I've followed with much success and joy in reading. At this party, though, I am simply sitting in the corner, falling asleep. It's been a long night, all 40 pages of it. In the past, I've scoffed at reviews where someone has said in essence, "I didn't finish the book, but I'm giving it a rating anyway". I thought "How can you justify that as a 'review'? You have to have read the book to have reviewed it! But not this time. I'm done with this book. I didn't finish it. And I'm rating it. That's 40 pages I could have been reading, or writing, something much better. Yes, for this moment, I am swallowing my pride and lemming this book. I'm feeling pretty good about that. On to better things. Life is too short. There are too many great books out there to tolerate mediocrity. Viva excellence! View all 27 comments. First of all, I really want to mention that whoever wrote the blurb for this book should win an award just for that. A historical novel that doesn't know what year it is; a noir novel that turns all the lights on; a romance novel that arrives drunk to dinner; a science fiction novel that can't remember what 'isotope' means; a stunningly inventive, exceptionally funny, dangerously unsteady and largely coherent novel about sex, violence, space, time, and how the best way to deal with history is First of all, I really want to mention that whoever wrote the blurb for this book should win an award just for that. A historical novel that doesn't know what year it is; a noir novel that turns all the lights on; a romance novel that arrives drunk to dinner; a science fiction novel that can't remember what 'isotope' means; a stunningly inventive, exceptionally funny, dangerously unsteady and largely coherent novel about sex, violence, space, time, and how the best way to deal with history is to ignore it. It isn't quite as good as all that, and it isn't as good as Ned Beauman's brilliant debut - Boxer, Beetle - either, but it's still a pretty great read. Starting in s Germany, the story takes in Berlin, Paris and Los Angeles across a span of thirty years as it follows Egon Loeser, a dissatisfied young man who flits around the world because of his twin obsessions with a 17th-century set designer, Lavincini - the creator of an infamously disastrous 'teleportation device', about whom Loeser is attempting to write a play - and a beautiful girl, Adele Hitler 'no relation'. The Teleportation Accident is full of the same farcical humour, grotesque characters and surfeit of coincidences that characterised Boxer, Beetle , and again, I was reminded very strongly of Jonathan Coe's signature style, albeit coupled with a historical setting. I loved the fragmented, surreal narrative style used for the section of the story focusing on Bailey, and wished I could have read more of this. The characters didn't engage me as much as those in Beauman's debut, however, and nor did I find the book anywhere near as funny. It's possibly cleverer, though: it is indeed a story about 'how the best way to deal with history is to ignore it', and this element of the plot is handled beautifully, with the historical events one might expect to take centre stage remaining firmly in the background, and seen mainly through the filter of Loeser's selfishness. My main quibble was - well, my first main quibble was that after the first chapter, I really hated Loeser. I hated him so much, in fact, that it took me a couple of days to even pick the book up again. My antipathy towards him lessened slightly as the story went on, but that was partly because midway through the story - round about the point he stopped reading the letter from Blumstein - I realised you weren't supposed to like him anyway as if his name practically being 'loser' wasn't enough of a giveaway. After that revelation, my remaining main quibble was that I didn't really understand why Beauman had chosen to focus so much of the narrative on Loeser's preoccupation with Adele and his sexual frustration. Why was Loeser so obsessed with Adele? And if he was so desperate to have sex, surely it's impossible that he wouldn't have been able to find anyone whatsoever to sleep with in all those years, in all those different social circles in all those different cities?! Wouldn't he just have gone to a prostitute - since we already know that he's done this before at the start of the book, I don't see why he would have any moral objection to the idea later in life It all seemed quite flimsy and contrived, and when the whole situation turned out view spoiler [to have practically nothing to do with anything else anyway hide spoiler ] , I felt a litle bit confused. I also didn't really 'get' the final chapter, I'm afraid. I've noted previously that when you have very high expectations for a new book by an author who has impressed you in the past, it's often inevitable that it will disappoint you even if only a little. This was one of my most-anticipated books of the year, and I have to admit that it wasn't quite the tour de force I was hoping for. The Teleportation Accident is fantastically written, entertaining and for the most part engaging, and the plot is incredibly well-woven together. However, the characters are universally hard to like and, although the plot fizzes with energy and ideas, there's just nothing to really care about at points I wished the story wouldn't 'ignore history' quite so much, even though I did fully understand what the author was doing, and the significance of this. As this review goes to press! It's great to see such a young and relatively 'new' author being recognised, but I just wish this had happened for Boxer, Beetle! View all 8 comments. Jul 25, Darwin8u rated it really liked it Shelves: Seriously, this novel is messy, uneven, and sometimes irritating, but mostly it is brilliant, funny, "Accidents allude, but they don't ape. Seriously, this novel is messy, uneven, and sometimes irritating, but mostly it is brilliant, funny, fast, seductive, original and twisted. I laughed at nearly every page. There is something to be said for an infinitely quotable novel I kept stopping to read lines to my wife that seems more relevant today than when it first came out in I grasp onto absurdity and fiction to escape the rise of demagogues and the non-stop hammering of current events into almost every orifice. The novel takes place in three primary locations: 1. Berlin, 2. Paris, 3. Las Angeles. It twists forward and sometimes backwards in time and does a brilliant job of reminding the reader that love, lust, location, locomotion, literature, etc. Every angel is terrifying. Reading Beauman is like watching some weird, but exceptionally nimble kid trip around in a circle building a fantastic Jenga tower. Bricks balance on bricks, metaphors cantilever over metaphors, but all you see is the sheer stress, the energy, the brilliance, the joyful risks of the weird kid dancing. I liked it enough to order his other novels , but I also imagine this isn't a novel that will work for everyone. Like Pynchon, you have to be in the right zone, with a particular drug-load or BAC, to full enjoy. View all 5 comments. Jul 14, V. I seldom take the trouble to actually write a review on a book considering how many there are on this page, I doubt anyone will read this - but this book is just so unspeakingly bad that I have to vent my anger at having been fooled into buying it. Please, should you consider buying this book: I advise you to read very, very carefully through the 1- star reviews. They are utterly revealing. I quote a few lines: "I can't understand how this got published, nor how the writer appears to have won se I seldom take the trouble to actually write a review on a book considering how many there are on this page, I doubt anyone will read this - but this book is just so unspeakingly bad that I have to vent my anger at having been fooled into buying it. I quote a few lines: "I can't understand how this got published, nor how the writer appears to have won several prizes for fiction" "I can think of few books more pretentious than this one. I would list them by name, but you probably haven't heard of them. Ned Beauman writes with a dictionary permanently open and pages flying, it seems! Some of his narrative is so widely stuffed that it took any smattering of joy out of the story. This is one of the worst books I have ever read" "I felt like the book was written by a too-smart-for-his-own-good juvenile boy who was obsessed with sex" "What a load of complete shite. View all 11 comments. New Review! I give 4. It's a must-buy holiday self-gift! This novel was longlisted for the Booker Prize, and I see why. Beauman's linguistic playfulness and inventive use of tropes in ways both satirical and satisfying to trope fans is amazing when one considers his revolting youth. He is under thirty, which I consider an affront to God. No one born after Man left the Moon for the final time to date should understand the world Beauman builds with deft and dextrous motions. Ain't natural. Read the review at Expendable Mudge Muses Aloud , since I won't add value to a capriciously censored site as a matter of principle. Feb 20, sj rated it really liked it Shelves: yorwtfiw , whaaa-litfic-zomg. Pre-read : Is it shallow that I want to have babies with this cover? At the beginning of Ned Beauman's The Teleportation Accident , he's just broken up with his girlfriend a wild ride in the sack, even if she is rather difficult to get off , there's no good coke to be had in all of Berlin and the girl he wants to sleep with has gone off with a man he could have sworn was gay. Oh, what's that? Nazis in Berlin? No, he doesn't read the news - it's too depressing. After a some Pre-read : Is it shallow that I want to have babies with this cover? After a somewhat slow beginning, where there's much lamenting the lack of cocaine in Berlin and a further lack of any good girls to take to bed, as well as a kind-of-but-not-really teleportation accident which Loeser will end up seriously regretting before long , The Teleportation Accident really hits its stride once Egon leaves Berlin for Paris to track down Adele Hitler no, not related and then eventually makes his way to the States. If he can just get Adele into his bed, he knows that things will pick up for him. The play he's working on will be finished, his life will get better in every possible way, and he'll no longer have to worry about the fact that his right bicep is [ahem] a full half inch larger than his left. There's swearing on every page, a ton of talk about sex, the possibility of a Great Old One in 17th century Paris - but it was PERFECT for me - because there's swearing on every page, a ton of talk about sex and um I loved it, but I'm not going to try to tell all of you that you'll love it, too. I'm definitely going to be re-reading it before too long, and it may go on my favourites shelf when that happens. For now, a solid four stars. If I want to feel as if I'm being sucked down a fathomless gloomy tunnel for hours and hours then I have a complete set of Schopenhauer at home. Oh, and even if you pick it up and hate it - at least that sexy cover will look amazing on your bookshelves, amirite? Originally posted here. View all 16 comments. Mar 02, Matt rated it it was amazing. Always hate to say "one of my favorite books ever" in the afterglow of reading it, but Deplorable characters. Breath-taking storytelling acrobatics. And probably the most laugh-out-loud moments I've ever had reading a book. Physics and magic and hard-boiled noir, Nazis and pornography, experimental theater and Lovecraft and punch-drunk sexual desire. What else could you want? Read it. Mar 21, Lindsay Smith rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorite-lit , Oh, this book. I had to give up on highlighting it because I was basically highlighting the whole damned thing. It is so inappropriately funny and deliciously thick with its own mythos. I love every one of the awful, wretched characters in this book, and their stubborn refusal to acknowledge the insanity of the world around them, largely of their own making. Nazis and Lovecraft and iguanas and made-up logical fallacies and Midnight at the Nursing Academy--I love it all. View 1 comment. Oct 10, Magda rated it it was ok. Jazda bez trzymanki, as we'd say in Poland. Full speed with clear mind. Amazing turn of phrase, fabulous, incredible sense of humour, ironic distance to reality, wonderfully miserable main character. Yet - too much of a form, playing with it for the sake of the writer's, not reader's pleasure. The story's so complicated I lost the point in the middle. Not that I couldn't follow it - that was alright. Just couldn't understand why it is so necessary for me to follow it. Loved it, read it t Woooow. Loved it, read it to the end, didn't like the end btw as much as I loved the beginning - got me into grips straight away , but more for the sake of the puns and language than the plot. Mar 12, Zac rated it did not like it. What can I say about this This book reminded me of a person at a party that loves to talk about themselves and then places you in a comatose state by telling you a very long-winded and pointless story. However, this is my opinion; it is still well written and obviously liked by others, just not me. Shame, I was looking forward to this too. Jan 18, Ria rated it liked it Shelves: 3stars. Shit is wack. Not sure if I liked it or not. Egon Loeser is an avant garde theatre set designer on a quest to recreate the perfect stage trick. Aside from his obsessive quest, there are his very dull friends and over course there is the girl who he is equally obsessed with. They are all obsessed with sex and feel like they are sex staved and spend most of them time talking about getting laid. They are extremely witty, but they are lustful, egotistical pricks. But hating the characters is actually part of the enjoyment of this book; I wanted to rage so many times but that just added to the experience. This is not just a novel about lust and time travel; this is more a novel about the disconnection between imagination and reality. Part of the beauty with in the book is the way Ned Beauman takes you in one direction and then unexpectedly you find yourself somewhere else; reading historical fiction turns into realism, science fiction and some other genres. View all 3 comments. Aug 17, Jenny Reading Envy rated it really liked it Shelves: own , read , league-extraordinary-dorks. This is a funny book, and not at all what I expected. My favorite character is Gorge, who suffers from ontological agnosia, which had some of the funniest moments in the novel. The ending is very spinny and I feel I should start again with what I know now. View 2 comments. Jul 04, Rebecca rated it really liked it Shelves: historical-fiction , laugh-out-loud , booker-longlisted , uncategorizable. And how to Lay them , and his forged last Fitzgerald novel; and the pornographic photo album Loeser loses and tries desperately to find again. Excellent slapstick comedy. Things get perhaps a bit too wacky in the last part, where examples of time-shifting are most notable: readers get a glimpse of the Venice of the distant future, inhabited only by Mordechai the iguana and a teleported serial murderer. Or historical fiction for that matter. I once thought about writing a novel of that kind, but then I began to wonder, what possible patience could the public have for a young man arrogant enough to believe he has anything new to say about an epoch with which his only acquaintance is flipping listlessly through history books on train journeys? So I stick to the present day. View all 9 comments. Feb 23, Roz Morris rated it did not like it Shelves: didn-t-finish. I'll declare from the outset: I couldn't get more than a few pages in. Neither could my husband, who is more tolerant of difficult beginnings than I am. But I can't understand how this got published, nor how the writer appears to have won several prizes for fiction. Normally I wouldn't think it fair to review under such circumstances, but it's the prizes that tipped me over the brink. It begins with a meandering account of a man who's building a teleportation machine, inspired by a similar machi I'll declare from the outset: I couldn't get more than a few pages in. It begins with a meandering account of a man who's building a teleportation machine, inspired by a similar machine that was built some centuries earlier. And they're not terribly interesting ideas either - two people making daft devices, but somehow narrated in a style that lacks all warmth and humanity. Which brings me to the writing style. You could forgive a lot especially of a prizewinning author if his prose was beguiling. Beauman's is unpleasantly smug, haranguing his characters for not being as clever as he is and enjoying the fact. But as I said, I read only the beginning. It could be that once you get past this stinker of an opening, you find a clever, rewarding book. I couldn't get there; but if you did, do tell me why it was worthwhile. Nov 23, Mark rated it really liked it Shelves: historical-fiction , fiction. This is one of the most oddly enjoyable books I've come across, and it was not even close to what I expected. The first thing to say is that Ned Beauman is a brilliant stylist. He's the kind of author whose metaphors and similes make many sentences worth reading all by themselves, and whose "look it up" vocabulary is never offputting. Secondly, in Egon Loesser and almost every name has a punnish meaning , he has managed to create an entertaining protagonist and narrator who is almost irredeemabl This is one of the most oddly enjoyable books I've come across, and it was not even close to what I expected. Secondly, in Egon Loesser and almost every name has a punnish meaning , he has managed to create an entertaining protagonist and narrator who is almost irredeemably selfish, shallow and dislikable, and yet somehow his character works. Then there's the genre popcorn machine Bauman uses to combine historical fiction, mystery, science fiction and the theater of the absurd. The book begins in the the early 30s in Berlin, where Loesser is a spectacularly unsuccessful stage designer who is trying to recreate his version of a historic teleportation device that will switch actors from one spot on the stage to another. In his first trial run, he dislocates the shoulders of his friend, who repays him by eventually taking up with Loesser's girfriend. Loesser than becomes smitten by a dark haired former pupil, Adele Hitler I know, I know and ends up following her to Paris and then to Los Angeles, where most of the action takes place. When he lands in southern California, he draws the attention of the one American author he likes to read, Stent Mutton I know, I know and his smashing wife, Dolores; finds other former Berlin compatriots have joined him there everyone assumes that he, like most of them, is an escaping Jew, when in fact Loesser ranges from willfully ignorant to uncaring toward the plight of German Jews , and gets taken under the wing of a wealthy but increasingly deranged millionaire named, of course, Gorge. At nearby Cal Tech is a scientist who is doing his own research on a real teleportation device, and before we're done, there are dead bodies, a kidnapping, a surreal time warp sequence with the scientist, news clippings, a future scene involving races that succeed humans, and a postscript. Sounds like a horrible mess, doesn't it? And yet somehow it works. I'd love to know others' reactions. Log in here. 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