[LMB] AKICOTL: perception with blind spaces

[Mark Allums]

alayne at twobikes.ottawa.on.ca wrote:
> 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.

That's not quite right, but very close, I think.  In _The Stars, My 
Destination_, people could *teleport* anywhere they could visualize, so 
people made it deliberately hard to visualize the insides of places 
where valuables were kept, e.g., rich people had mazes in their homes.

If you haven't read the book, go ahead and do so, it's quite good, 
Bester's best.

--Mark Allums