The Stars My Destination

The Stars My Destination
by Alfred Bester

The Stars My Destination
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Author: Alfred Bester
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1996-07-02
ISBN: 0679767800
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Vintage

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Book Review: Good sci-fi and good novel
Summary: 5 Stars

The book starts off with a few original and interesting ideas and situations (a society changed by the generalized ability of human beings to 'jaunt', i.e. teleport under certain conditions; a man left to die in a half-destroyed space-ship floating in space, and his subsequent quest for vengeance). Happily, as the chapters progress, especially in the second half, the creativity of the author keeps giving more and more. By the end the reader is truly left with a sense of awe.

This is a book that does what sci-fi is supposed to do: stimulate our imaginations about the boundaries of the possible for the human race and its place in the universe. It is also good as a novel itself, for it does what novels are meant to do: provide a reflection on the nature of human beings, their feats and sins, their motivations and moral choices.

Five stars.

Summary of The Stars My Destination

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.
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.)

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