Projectado no Tempo (Série Antecipação #4)

The Non-Statistical Man, Belmont Books,1964. Paperback, 1st edition. Collection of stories, including: The Non-Statistical Man (1956); The Moon Is Death (1953); The Gardener (1957); Intermission Time (1953). American science fiction author Raymond F. Jones is best known for his novel "This Island Earth," which was adapted into a 1955 film. The first novel, “The Non-Statistical Man” is by yet another great science fiction craftsman, Raymond F. Jones. Was it possible there could be human intuition in a pill? Charles Bascomb was a man of precise logic—not too surprising he pushed facts and figures for a big insurance company. Every thought he had, every action he took, was based on his steadfast, nearly religious belief in the accuracy of numbers and statistics. But something was amiss. How was it possible that a select group of people seemed to have a power of intuition greater than the essence of pure logic itself? How was it possible that, with nothing more than a hunch to go on, they all seemed to have the foresight of knowing the exact moment in time when they should purchase an insurance policy? It was a maddening riddle for a man who had spent his whole life anchored in reason, cause, and effect. Soon this baffling mystery would lead to an eccentric doctor and his little bottles of multi-colored pills.

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