It's part coming of age, part "What if?", and more science fiction than comic book.ĭavy's powers drive the plot, but his history and his attempt to come to terms with it drive the book. Despite the fact that Davy ends up taking on everyone from international terrorists to the NSA, Jumper is really not a superhero novel. So there is a bit of wish fulfillment and a bit of superheroing, as Davy, being the only teleporter he knows of, possesses almost godlike power. The big idea is that Davy, the main character, discovers he can teleport, in a world that is otherwise just like ours - i.e., no super powers. This book is a sneaky bit of genre subversion. Davy wants to find others like himself, others who can Jump. To survive, Davy must learn to use and control his power in a world that is more violent and complex than he ever imagined. (Aug.What if you could go anywhere in the world, in the blink of an eye? Where would you go? What would you doĭavy can teleport.
His warm, delightful and compulsively readable novel displays assured storytelling skill. Short fiction has earned this author a reputation in ``hard'' science fiction, and he applies similar logic to teleportation (though he glosses over some points to make the story work). David searches for his long-lost mother, meets and woos a girl, enjoys the pleasures of a leisurely life in New York and (despite his best efforts) eventually runs afoul of the authorities, who of course want to understand his powers and then put him to work for them. Gould does not focus on moral implications so much as keep the plot moving quickly. Having run away, he learns to control his strange talent, using it first to survive on the street and then to set himself up comfortably via bank robbery. David Rice, age 17, first ``jumps'' spontaneously in order to escape his abusive father. Gould gives us no teleportation chambers, no shimmery beaming a la Star Trek, no worries about mingling one's own molecules with a fly's-here only one person can teleport, and he has no idea how he does it. Gould makes an auspicious debut with this playful and moving look at a hallowed science fiction concept: teleportation.
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