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"Jumper combines a fantastic premise with
rigorous analysis and human insight.
Exciting, gripping, and psychologically real."
-comWalter Jon Williams

Davy can teleport. He first discovers his
talent during a savage beating delivered by his
abusive father, when Davy jumps
instantaneously to the safest place he knows, his
small-town public library. As his mother did so
many years before, Davy vows never to go home again.
Instead, he sets off, young and inexperienced, for
New York City.
Davy gradually learns to use and control his
powers, first for sheer survival in an environment
more violent and complex than he ever imagined. But
mere survival is not enough for Davy. He wants
to know if there are other people like him. He needs to know
if his mother disappeared so completely from his life because
she, too, could Jump. And as he searches for a
trace of anyone else with powers like his own, he
learns to use his abilities for more than escape
and theft.
A young man with nothing to lose, and the ability to go
anyplace he wants, can help a lot of people.
But he can also make a lot of trouble, and sooner
or later trouble is going to come looking for him. The
one way Davy can think of to locate others who can
Jump is to make himself visible to them, but if he
does, the police will surely find him too.
Like Stapledon's classic Odd John,
or Sturgeon's More Than Human,
Jumper is a coming-of-age story about a young man
who discovers that he has a power that sets him apart
from other human beings. This is the kind of novel that
makes you remember why you started reading science
fiction in the first place.

Jumper is Gould's first novel, but he is
well-known to readers of Analog magazine. His
short fiction has been nominated several times for
both the Nebula and Hugo awards. Steven
Gould lives in New York City, with his
wife, writer Laura Mixon.