Lies, Inc. // The Unteleported Man — Philip K. Dick

Nobody would go to the stars the long way when you could travel to your new planetary Utopia the instant-teleportation way. That is, nobody reasonable would want to spend eighteen long years in a spaceship just to be stubborn about electronic transit.
Which is what made Rachmael ben Applebaum such a thorn in the side to the giant industrial combines that had made the Telpor what it was. Because Rachmael was all set to head for Newcolonizedland by his own starship--alone.

But just being eccentric and a doubter would hardly justify the incredible concentration of effort to prevent his trip. THE UNTELEPORTED MAN suspected he was on the track of a secret too dangerous to get out--even after an eighteen year journey.
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et even he did not guess him terrifyingly right he was!