Get used to the language and keep reading. Lovely book that is the reason I read science fiction. Take it home and lose yourself in this new world. Read it and love it. Everything by Bester is fantastic.

Review: The Stars My Destination

Trigger warning. This book has some heavyweights in its corner. If I recall correctly, Sam Delany recommended it in The Jewel-Hinged Jaw. Gaiman wrote the intro (which I'll read after I write this ... Read full review

Review: The Stars My Destination

A merchant [space] marine is the only survivor on an attacked ship, barely scraping by for six months before sighting another vessel. He signals the ship and it approaches... only to look him over and ... Read full review

Review: The Stars My Destination

Gully Foyle is my name Terra is my nation Deep space is my dwelling place The stars my destination Sci-fi from its formative days is funny. Not funny ha-ha (not always anyway), but funny-weird…at ... Read full review

Review: The Stars My Destination

Oh I forgot to list this one! Wow - oversight city! (A city not found on any maps). God knows whether this is really a five star novel, but it was when I read it as a young teenybopper, and it bopped ... Read full review

Review: The Stars My Destination

This was a book I had sitting in my library for years and finally got around to reading. It is regarded as one of the all time science fiction classics, and I even remember shopping at The Stars Our ... Read full review

Review: The Stars My Destination

A paperback I was given. Good job really because it went into the next bag of charity stuff to be 'got rid of'. I love early Sci-fi... Heinlein, etc, The gritty,.,. man v space stories, Tunnel in the ... Read full review

Review: The Stars My Destination

I could write an in-depth analysis of just what makes this book so hideously misogynistic, racist, obnoxious, idiotic, and just generally odious, not to mention unfoundedly preachy, but we're all ... Read full review

Review: The Stars My Destination

I want to start by saying that I did not like this book. I have a hard time accepting that this is a classic piece of science fiction. I thought it was well-written but the characters are difficult to ... Read full review

Review: The Stars My Destination

Gully Foyle is a 3rd-class mechanic on a star freighter. His ship is crippled and its crew killed. He alone survives. Previously a lazy no-account, Foyle turns into a inhuman machine of vengeance when ... Read full review