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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Crime waves swept the planets and satellites as their underworlds took to
jaunting with the night around the clock , and there were brutalities as the police
fought them without quarter . There came a hideous return to the worst prudery of
...
Crime waves swept the planets and satellites as their underworlds took to
jaunting with the night around the clock , and there were brutalities as the police
fought them without quarter . There came a hideous return to the worst prudery of
...
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outer planets beyond the asteroid orbits , it was a frozen mass of methane and
ammonia ; but its four largest satellites swarmed with cities and populations now
at war with the Inner Planets . He would be a war prisoner , but he had to stay
alive ...
outer planets beyond the asteroid orbits , it was a frozen mass of methane and
ammonia ; but its four largest satellites swarmed with cities and populations now
at war with the Inner Planets . He would be a war prisoner , but he had to stay
alive ...
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Time was when Dagenham was one of the Inner Planets ' research wizards , a
physicist with inspired intuition , total recall , and a sixth - order computer for a
brain . But there was an accident at Tycho Sands , and the fission blast that
should ...
Time was when Dagenham was one of the Inner Planets ' research wizards , a
physicist with inspired intuition , total recall , and a sixth - order computer for a
brain . But there was an accident at Tycho Sands , and the fission blast that
should ...
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User Review - Bart - GoodreadsThis book was published in 1956 – a time when traveling to the moon would still be science fiction for quite a few years. Many of its ideas were astonishing then and its plot of blind revenge ... Read full review
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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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