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Book Reviews TIGER! TIGER! by Alfred Bester, published by Sidg- wick & Jackson, 1 Tavistock Chambers, Bloomsbury Way, London W.C.1, at 12s. 6d., is the second full-length novel by the author of The Demol- - ished Man, which won a certificate of merit in the International Fantasy Award. The latest novel is the story of Gully Foyle, sole survivor of an abandoned spaceship who, by pressure of circumstances, becomes some- thing more than human. His motivating drive is that of vengeance; revenge against - those who refused to rescue him, but this main theme is surrounded and elaborated by an astonishing complexity of plot and intrigue. The author, with his cus- tomary lavishness, embroiders the entire story with a suc- cession of shock tactics which — fully drawn. Gully ruthlessness, holds the interest through every page. Aside from the main search, we have a civilization based on the pow- ers of teleportation, inter- planetary war, business versus government, decadence and cynical compromise. The characters are alive and skil- Foyle himself is incredibly larger than life with his frightening his absolute determination to extract ven- geance and his struggles with the powers with which he comes in conflict. There is nothing tedious about this book, nothing long-drawn-out nor fully ex- ploited. It is almost breathless in its swift passage from situa- tion to situation, world to. world, from the heights to the depths of the civilization de- picted. There is a sweep and rush to the story, with its 157 comiclbaoks.com-