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Alfred Bester - The Stars My Destination
 
   

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Gully Foyle has survived for 170 days in the airless purgatory of deep space. He escapes to Terra with a murderous grudge against the people who abandoned him and a secret that makes him the most valuable--and dangerous--man on Earth.
 
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Better Than His Hugo Award Winning Book

Date of Review:  Apr 3, 2001
The Bottom Line: Alfred Bester ranks with the best of the science fiction writers. I just wish he'd written more books.
Review: How can I start? How does one begin to describe an absolute masterpiece without sounding trite or overly enthusiastic? A few epinions back, I reviewed Alfred Bester
blockbuster first novel which won him the first Hugo Award, "The Demolished...
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  5.0

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Recommended to buy: Yes

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Incredible journey through the mind and...
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A ?CLASSIC?, IN THE TRUE SENSE OF THE WORD.

Date of Review:  May 12, 2005
The Bottom Line: A Beautiful story, beautifully told, not just for fans of Sci-Fi.
Review: "He was one hundred and seventy days dying and not yet dead"... Thus Alfred Bester begun his gripping tale of Gully Foyle. That was 1956. Fifty years later Bester's book, THE STARS MY DESTINATION, is still voraciously read and widely acclaimed to be...
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  5.0

by: lammet
Recommended to buy: Yes

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Original thematic floorboards, Engaging...
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The human spirit in the 24th Century. Besters' Masterwork.

Date of Review:  Jun 13, 2001
The Bottom Line: Strongly recommended, as a wonderfully entertaining read, exciting and visionary, as fine literature, and one of my favorite books!
Review: Alfred Besters' "The Stars my Destination" is an absorbing and inventive read, telling the tale of Gully Foyle, goalless soul, and his personal evolution against a breathtaking backdrop of our own future.

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A magnificently-weaved tale of the...
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  Delany, Samuel R.: "Considered by many to be the greatest single SF novel."

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  Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Lightyear Pr (October 30, 2007)
ISBN: 9780899683287
 
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