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Review: The Stars My Destination

User Review  - Felina - Goodreads

Gully Foyle is my name And Terra is my nation. Deep space is my dwelling place, The stars my destination. A man is a member of society first, and an individual second. You must go along with society ... Read full review

Review: The Stars My Destination

User Review  - Melody - Goodreads

I read this due to its inclusion on several "best-ever sci-fi" lists recently. It was written at the tail end the Golden Age, and there are oddities that read skewed to the modern eye. A female ... Read full review

Review: The Stars My Destination

User Review  - Samuel Nolley - Goodreads

Not one I'd recommend. Not horrible is the best compliment I can give this one. Read full review

Review: The Stars My Destination

User Review  - Andrea - Goodreads

really 2.5 stars. Not my usual genre, not my usual era; I read this more on a dare than anything. And I actually kind of enjoyed it, right up until the end, when it went crazily off the rails in a drug-induced kinda way. Read full review

Review: The Stars My Destination

User Review  - Troy - Goodreads

I think I liked some of the concepts more than I liked that actual book. The whole jaunting concept was intriguing, and I actually was really into this through the first couple of chapters. At some ... Read full review

Review: The Stars My Destination (Gollancz SF)

User Review  - Lydia - Goodreads

It's a shame, I'd have liked to stick it out through this book. Apparently it was Jasper Fforde's inspiration, and I love his work. Somehow though this book just bored me. I don't like too much sf ... Read full review

Review: The Stars My Destination

User Review  - Alexis - Goodreads

The protagonist is a violent, chauvinistic creep. His hijinks include raping and extorting a teacher of the mentally disabled and beating the daylights out of an entire colony of tattooed asteroid ... Read full review

Review: The Stars My Destination

User Review  - Cyrano - Goodreads

Maybe my expectations were too high. Bester is one of the revered grandfathers of Science Fiction, and I'd wanted to read his works for a while. And while for the most part this is a readable story ... Read full review

Review: The Stars My Destination

User Review  - Laurasmoot - Goodreads

very stylish, very impressive. also loathsome. delany's quoted on my copy's cover: "considered by many...to be the greates single SF novel." let's wager that his ellipsis contained something pithy ... Read full review

Review: The Stars My Destination

User Review  - Jason - Goodreads

Really mediocre. The cover promised that some people consider it the single best science fiction novel of all time. I don't know who those people are, but they're wrong. The book has positive ... Read full review


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