[LMB] AKICOTL: perception with blind spaces

[alayne at twobikes.ottawa.on.ca]

On Sat, 1 Mar 2008, Ed Burkhead wrote:
> One story or book I read decades ago intrigued me a lot and I'd like to find
> it.
> 
> The main character was a guy with perception in a world where other people
> had other talents.
> 
> Perception was blocked, though, in areas that seemed like blank or dark
> areas.  Businesses would locate their headquarters in these
> perception-dead-zones to prevent perception talents from reading their
> secrets.

My first reaction was Alfred Bester's _The Stars My Destination_ (hero: 
Gully Foyle), but I may be mistaken. If it is, it's been reprinted many 
times and should be easy to find.

Alayne

-- 
Alayne McGregor
alayne at twobikes.ottawa.on.ca

"In dark paradise the other people grope on an arduous road. And the only brightness that sometimes lights
their nightly march like an ephemeral spark is a brief impression of a chance magnetic neighborliness --
a brief nostalgia, a momentary shudder, a dream of an hour of sunrise." -- C.V. Cavafy