I was really looking forward to read this science fiction classic by Alfred Bester. It turned out to be a major disappointment. I find it very difficult to see what is so special and "master-piece-y" about it. Sure, it has a few good ideas here and there, but it's way too erratic, too chaotic and un...
One guy can jaunt or teleport himself through space into stars. However, he’s savage and nobody likes him. Moreover, The planet dealers want to kill him, they abandoned him in agonizing death in a space ship “Nomad” . He knows also some valuable secrets about PyrE, high nuclear fuel. A gram of w...
I remember loving it when I read it as a teen. Decades later? Well... There are still things I love about it, but for everything I do love, there's a side of it I dislike. I love a lot of the imagination in this book of a world where everyone "jauntes" ie, teleports, hundreds, even a thousand mile...
"The jaunte rules supreme..."I read this book more than 20 years ago and finally I got to read it again (It's been for some time on my TBR Pile of long-ago-SF-Books...)There’s many SF classics to be read, and I have read most of them.Often, when reading books from the “good old days”, the datedness ...
What a real pleasure it is to read a book with a beginning, a middle and an ending, as apposed to an endless stream of whacking great tomes that go nowhere fast. I liked this a lot. I've been in just the right kind of mood lately for a nice bit of raging, seething vengeance, and I wasn't disappointe...
For much of this book, I was sitting at a fairly solid three stars. Well-written, but just not my thing. Too many unlikeable characters, and too much casual 50s sexism. And then there's a dose of instalove, to round it out. But the ending is fantastic, enough to take this nearly to a four star book ...
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 rede...
One of the best books I've read, and I've read a good deal. Take an unlikable protagonist, an epic quest, mix in the ability to teleport, and you have a great read. Not to mention Alfred Bester's penchant for psychedelic prose (he won the first Hugo award for the Demolished Man), and you have one of...
Gully Foyle is not a likeable man. But he is a compelling one. And in The Stars My Destination Alfred Bester wrote one of his best. (I do like The Demolished Man a little bit more.) Stranded in space, running out of air, Gully Foyle watches as a ship that could save him passes him by. This changes s...
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