The Stars My DestinationIn this pulse-quickening novel, Alfred Bester imagines a future in which people "jaunte" a thousand miles with a single thought, where the rich barricade themselves in labyrinths and protect themselves with radioactive hit men--and where an inarticulate outcast is the most valuable and dangerous man alive. |
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Captain Peter Y ' ang - Yeovil of Central Intelligence was a lineal descendant of
the learned Mencius and belonged to . the Intelligence Tong of the Inner Planets
Armed Forces . For two hundred years the IPAF had entrusted its intelligence ...
Captain Peter Y ' ang - Yeovil of Central Intelligence was a lineal descendant of
the learned Mencius and belonged to . the Intelligence Tong of the Inner Planets
Armed Forces . For two hundred years the IPAF had entrusted its intelligence ...
Page 57
Intelligence checks and finds you were aboard ' Nomad ' when she sailed . Class
. As if all this isn ' t enough to throw Intelligence into a tizzy , you come back in a
private launch that ' s been missing fifty years . Man , you ' re cooking in the ...
Intelligence checks and finds you were aboard ' Nomad ' when she sailed . Class
. As if all this isn ' t enough to throw Intelligence into a tizzy , you come back in a
private launch that ' s been missing fifty years . Man , you ' re cooking in the ...
Page 142
Then the blur seized the girl in the Renaissance gown and vanished . The
Spanish Stairs came to life again , painfully , as though struggling out of a
nightmare . The bewildered Intelligence crew clustered around Y ' ang - Yeovil . “
What in God ...
Then the blur seized the girl in the Renaissance gown and vanished . The
Spanish Stairs came to life again , painfully , as though struggling out of a
nightmare . The bewildered Intelligence crew clustered around Y ' ang - Yeovil . “
What in God ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Stars My Destination Berkley medallion book |
| Author | Alfred Bester |
| Edition | reprint, reissue |
| Publisher | Berkley Books, 1976 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 30 Jun 2010 |
| ISBN | 0425055248, 9780425055243 |
| Length | 235 pages |
| Subjects | › › Fiction / Science Fiction / General |
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