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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Page 90
... the operation ' s finished . Call the rest off and tell them to report back to
Courier headquarters . ” The side show jaunted and disappeared . Regis
Sheffield rubbed his eyes and asked : “ What was that lunacy supposed to be ,
Dagenham ?
... the operation ' s finished . Call the rest off and tell them to report back to
Courier headquarters . ” The side show jaunted and disappeared . Regis
Sheffield rubbed his eyes and asked : “ What was that lunacy supposed to be ,
Dagenham ?
Page 111
The silver seams were the scars of an operation that had not yet faded . That
operation had cost Foyle a Cr 200 , 000 bribe to the chief surgeon of the Mars
Commando Brigade and had transformed him into an extraordinary fighting
machine .
The silver seams were the scars of an operation that had not yet faded . That
operation had cost Foyle a Cr 200 , 000 bribe to the chief surgeon of the Mars
Commando Brigade and had transformed him into an extraordinary fighting
machine .
Page 171
Foyle strapped the body on the operating table , opened a case of surgical
instruments , and began the delicate operation he had learned by hypno -
training that morning . . . an operation made possible only by his five - to - one
acceleration .
Foyle strapped the body on the operating table , opened a case of surgical
instruments , and began the delicate operation he had learned by hypno -
training that morning . . . an operation made possible only by his five - to - one
acceleration .
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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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