Walter Tevis was not an extremely prolific writer. Over 22 years he only published 6 novels and a couple dozen short stories with the late 60s and 70s being a virtual wasteland of publications for him. But what he did write was extremely well received and half of his novels were made into movies, including the classic The Hustler, its sequel The Color of Money and the science fiction classic The Man Who Fell To Earth. The movie version of the book starred David Bowie as the main character and wasn’t that well received when it came out, but has since attained a cult status. So, let’s check out the book and see what happened.