Stars My Destination (Sf Masterworks 05)
by:
Alfred Bester (author)
Such is the official verdict on Gully Foyle, unskilled space crewman. But Gully has managed to survive for 170 days in the airless purgatory of deep space after the wreck of his ship, and has escaped to Earth carrying a murderous grudge and a secret that could change the course of history. The...
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Such is the official verdict on Gully Foyle, unskilled space crewman. But Gully has managed to survive for 170 days in the airless purgatory of deep space after the wreck of his ship, and has escaped to Earth carrying a murderous grudge and a secret that could change the course of history. The novel which in large part inspired both the cyberpunk movement of the 1980s and the science fiction New Wave of the 1960s, THE STARS MY DESTINATION has an unrivalled claim to be the most influential sf book of all time.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781857988147 (1857988140)
ASIN: 1857988140
Publish date: 1999-03-11
Publisher: Millennium Paperbacks
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
A very good book. The book is about a future society in which people can jaunt. Jaunting is teleportation caused by the power of the mind. The book itself jaunts. It moves at lighting speed from scene to scene, The action is furious and fast, and the book hurls you forward.The book is about the...
The enormously high praise I've heard about this book almost spoiled it for me by setting my expectations impossibly high. Fortunately, it did a pretty good job of fulfilling them.This is a short, frenetically paced, action packed novel that weaves in numerous characters and plot developments. It do...
This is a novel about Gully Foyle a seemingly worthless crewman on a spaceship who was abandoned to his fate when he could (and should) have been rescued by a passing ship. He vows revenge on those who abandoned him and cuts a violent path to get to them, picking up on his way an education, tattoos,...
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