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The Stars My Destination (Hardcover)

by Alfred Bester (Author)
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Samuel R. Delany wrote that this is "considered by many...to be the greatest single SF novel." It tells the story of Gully Foyle, a below-average, nondescript spacehand whose life at 30 is "too easy for trouble, too slow for fun, too empty for friendship and too lazy for love." Then Gully is marooned in space for 170 days, trapped in the equipment locker of a shattered spaceship. When a passing vessel investigates the wreckage and, unthinkably, leaves Gully to die, his life takes on new meaning, setting off a search for vengeance that will alter the world.


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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. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars ... is filthy death for us, May 29 2004
By doomsdayer520 (Pennsylvania) - See all my reviews
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars A classic work of hope and redemption., Feb 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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5.0 out of 5 stars The Ultimate in SF - It doesn't get any better!!!, Jan 14 2004
By Ian Shillington "Doc Shillington" (Clearwater, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars 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
Published on Dec 24 2003 by Will C. Merydith

4.0 out of 5 stars 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

Published on Dec 22 2003 by Robert P. Beveridge

5.0 out of 5 stars 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
Published on Oct 31 2003 by Ryk E. Spoor

5.0 out of 5 stars 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

Published on Aug 13 2003 by Baltasar Gracian

5.0 out of 5 stars 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
Published on Aug 8 2003 by Julie Bernstein

4.0 out of 5 stars 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
Published on Aug 5 2003 by James Moss

5.0 out of 5 stars 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
Published on Jul 5 2003 by egj10

5.0 out of 5 stars 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
Published on May 30 2003 by Daniel Jolley

4.0 out of 5 stars 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
Published on Dec 21 2002 by EMAN NEP

5.0 out of 5 stars 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
Published on Oct 13 2002

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