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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TWO - Between Mars and Jupiter is spread the broad belt of the asteroids . Of the
thousands , known and unknown , most unique to the Freak Century was the
Sargasso Asteroid , a tiny planet manufactured of natural rock and wreckage ...
TWO - Between Mars and Jupiter is spread the broad belt of the asteroids . Of the
thousands , known and unknown , most unique to the Freak Century was the
Sargasso Asteroid , a tiny planet manufactured of natural rock and wreckage ...
Page 95
So he returned to the freak planetoid in the asteroid belt between Mars and
Jupiter , the Sargasso planet manufactured of rock and wreckage and the spoils
of space disaster salvaged by the Scientific People . He returned to the home of ...
So he returned to the freak planetoid in the asteroid belt between Mars and
Jupiter , the Sargasso planet manufactured of rock and wreckage and the spoils
of space disaster salvaged by the Scientific People . He returned to the home of ...
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They corked up in their spacesuits , left the Weekender , and went sprawling
through the debris in the crater into the bleak bowels of the asteroid . It was like
squirming through the crawling tunnels of giant worm - holes . Foyle switched on
his ...
They corked up in their spacesuits , left the Weekender , and went sprawling
through the debris in the crater into the bleak bowels of the asteroid . It was like
squirming through the crawling tunnels of giant worm - holes . Foyle switched on
his ...
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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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