Eye In The Sky (Ace)

    (Ace, 1957)

Here is a heady jest, the first book since Fredric Brown's What Mad Universe in which, within the plot's legitimate framework, anything - but anything - can happen.
This glorious jape is, briefly, teh story of an accident to a bevatron, in which eight people, in falling a considerable distance, pass throught eh highly energized beam. They recover and return home, sharing the feeling that something is vaguely amiss; but when an irreverence gets you a mysterious nip in the leg, and a lie brings a plague of locusts, the feeling gets less vague. From there it takes off madly, in wild hyperbolic sweeps of unabashed imagination. Two guys ride to heaven on an umbrella, and there's a house which eats people. Characters are killed, and restored for the next go-round to try it over. The earth comes to an end more than once.
It's worth eleven times the price and all your re-reading time. I like it.
-Theodore Sturgeon
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