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The Star's My Destination (Library Binding)

de Alfred Bester (Author)
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When it comes to pop culture, Alfred Bester (1913-1987) is something of an unsung hero. He wrote radio scripts, screenplays, and comic books (in which capacity he created the original Green Lantern Oath). But Bester is best known for his science-fiction novels, and The Stars My Destination may be his finest creation. First published in 1956 (as Tiger! Tiger!), the novel revolves around a hero named Gulliver Foyle, who teleports himself out of a tight spot and creates a great deal of consternation in the process. With its sly potshotting at corporate skullduggery, The Stars My Destination seems utterly contemporary, and has maintained its status as an underground classic for forty years. (Bester fans should also note that Vintage has reprinted The Demolished Man, which won the very first Hugo Award in 1953.) --Ce texte provient de la Paperback édition.


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Marooned in outer space after an attack on his ship, Nomad, Gulliver Foyle lives to obsessively pursue the crew of a rescue vessel that had intended to leave him to die. Reprint. 10,000 first printing. --Ce texte provient de la Paperback édition.

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5.0étoiles sur 5 ... is filthy death for us, Mai 29 2004
Par doomsdayer520 (Pennsylvania) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: The Stars My Destination (Paperback)
Among the voluminous piles of predictable spaceships-and-aliens tomes of classic sci-fi, once in a while you'll find an off-kilter underground gem like this. Bester's bizarro novel from 1956 was way ahead of its time, at least in terms of sheer weirdness and cracked feats of the imagination. In this story, Bester has imagined a sci-fi future that is depressingly realistic - the miracles of interplanetary travel have been turned toward corporate profiteering, those who have learned teleportation and telepathy have used them for self-interested and criminal pursuits, and humans are still warring with themselves but now from different planets. This frantic universe and the frenetic story told here are being navigated by a quite strange character named Gully Foyle, whose relentless quest for personal revenge accidentally turns him into the nearly godlike figure that he narcissistically assumed himself to be. Gully's bizarre trips through Bester's strange universe will be matched only by the trippiness in your own brain, as you digest this story that was decades ahead of its time, if only for the very depths of its strangeness. [~doomsdayer520~]
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5.0étoiles sur 5 A classic work of hope and redemption., Fév 16 2004
This review is from: The Stars My Destination (Paperback)
What a great book! And what a stupendous character is Gully Foyle! Brutish, nasty, self-centered, focussed, he hurts anyone and everyone in the drive for his answer: why he was left so dependent, so lonely.

And what a tremendous growth and rebirth he experiences! From ape to cosmic being, the stereotype common man, not recommended for promotion, becomes the newborn man of Clarke's 2001, a dream, a vision of tomorrow.

Pay attention to his epiphany: It isn't necessary to have something to believe in. It's only necessary to believe that somewhere there's something worthy of belief.

An outstanding, enriching addition to life.

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5.0étoiles sur 5 The Ultimate in SF - It doesn't get any better!!!, Janv. 14 2004
Par Ian Shillington "Doc Shillington" (Clearwater, FL USA) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: The Stars My Destination (Paperback)
Why this hasn't been made into a full length motion picture, I haven't a clue.

And who could star in this awesome epic as our enigmatic hero???

Bruce Willis of course ;o)

Ahhhhhhhh, Vorga T-1339. I rot you filthy.

Doc

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5.0étoiles sur 5 It doesn't get any better
I thought Asimov was the godfather of sci-fi, and then only recently I discovered Alfred Bester. This book is easily the best sci-fi novel I have read. Read more
Publié le Déc 24 2003 par Will C. Merydith

4.0étoiles sur 5 The medium contains the message.
Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination (Vintage, 1956)

Considered by many (or so the book jacket tells us) the single finest science fiction novel ever written, The Stars My... Read more

Publié le Déc 22 2003 par Robert P. Beveridge

5.0étoiles sur 5 One of the greatest SF novels ever written.
Capsule Description: Proto-Cyberpunkish dark future with some unique twists, a flawed and driven protagonist, and gripping action. On my Top Ten list. Read it. Buy it. Read more
Publié le Oct. 31 2003 par Ryk E. Spoor

5.0étoiles sur 5 Sheer inspiration
SPOILER WARNING: SECRETS WILL BE DIVULGED

BUT BY ALL MEANS ORDER THIS BOOK NOW!!!

Bester bests the competition. His influence is pretty huge too. Read more

Publié le Aoû 13 2003 par Baltasar Gracian

5.0étoiles sur 5 Vengeance and imagination
This is a book of frightening intensity. Bester's imagination was truly boundless. I agree with the writer of the foreword that the original title, "Tiger, Tiger! Read more
Publié le Aoû 8 2003 par Julie Bernstein

4.0étoiles sur 5 Awesome book with multiple messages!!!
An excellent book that will inspire the reader to pursue his/her dreams whatever they may be. The main message to be learned is that a person must never give up even if everything... Read more
Publié le Aoû 5 2003 par James Moss

5.0étoiles sur 5 Bester's Best Book
My favorite Science Fiction book. Read this book and watch an ordinary "dim witted" man turn into a highly intellegent monster. Read more
Publié le Juil 5 2003 par egj10

5.0étoiles sur 5 Revenge is for dreams, never for reality
Having won the very first Hugo award for best science fiction novel with The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester faced a somewhat daunting task in trying to follow up his unparalleled... Read more
Publié le Mai 30 2003 par Daniel Jolley

4.0étoiles sur 5 COPYRIGHT 1956
Keep that in mind as you read this book. Think of all those bad SF movies that you see on American Movie Classics--the ones with bad plots, cardboard robots, flying saucers, our... Read more
Publié le Déc 21 2002 par EMAN NEP

5.0étoiles sur 5 Bester's Best
The prologue of this book paints a whole world and time, into which is placed a truly unlikely, but unforgettable, main character, Gully Foyle. Read more
Publié le Oct. 13 2002

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