Much of the true beauty of Bester's novel, winner of the inaugral
Hugo award, comes from the examination of the effect of psionic powers on culture.
Bester's interest in typography is evident throughout, with the interweaving of psychic powers being depicted through interweaving words on the page, confusion coming across via jagged typefaces and so on - this is one of Bester's common stylistic filips, and can be seen in all of his novels and many of his short stories.
The Demolished Man is half sci-fi, half noir detective novel, and half one man's fight against (what he perceives as) an unjust society. Yes, that makes three halves, but the novel really is good enough to justify all three. Read it, or risk missing one of the books that helped reinvent the limits of science fiction.