Here seems more appropriate than the rant thread...
There's a lovely bit in Steven Gould's Jumper[1] where the protagonist gets annoyed with a particularly poorly times scam call, so teleports into the scammers' building after-hours and re-programs the dialer robot with the employee phone directory.
[1] A YA science fiction story from the 1990s which is notable for attempting to do teleportation properly, as well as an unusually frank depiction of parental abuse. I re-read it recently, after discovering a whole series had been written (and a disappointing film made) while I wasn't paying attention.
The film is crap
The book is rather brilliant, mostly for its portrayal of personal relationships, and the effects of domestic violence.
That's the one. The whole series had a compelling combination of taking the teleportation ability to logical conclusions (the sort of thing that will be familiar to anyone who knows the
SMBC peak superman comic and the laws of thermodynamics), fucked-up personal relationships
[1], and the ethical decisions that stem from those things. And a much less compelling plot to keep things moving along. Sadly the makers of the film picked up mostly on the latter, though there are plenty of subtle references to things from the books that are left completely unexplored.
[1] Impulse's handling of Cent's upbringing as the child of paranoid teleporting adults hiding from a well-resourced evil organisation is as good as Davy's relationship to his parents in Jumper.
