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 58
The war ' s disrupted normal trade , and Mars Bank found that Presteign owed
them twenty odd million credits without any way of getting the money short of
actual delivery . Presteign was delivering the money in bar platinum aboard the ...
The war ' s disrupted normal trade , and Mars Bank found that Presteign owed
them twenty odd million credits without any way of getting the money short of
actual delivery . Presteign was delivering the money in bar platinum aboard the ...
Page 108
In twenty minutes the surveyors had laid out a camp site and the word was
spread that the Four Mile Circus was arriving . Locals from Wisconsin , Michigan ,
and Minnesota came to watch the fun . Twenty roustabouts jaunted in , each
carrying ...
In twenty minutes the surveyors had laid out a camp site and the word was
spread that the Four Mile Circus was arriving . Locals from Wisconsin , Michigan ,
and Minnesota came to watch the fun . Twenty roustabouts jaunted in , each
carrying ...
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Yang - Yeovil in twenty m Why didn ' t “ Sheffield jaunted with Foyle . . . . Knocked
him stiff and disappeared . I went looking . All over . Took a chance , Must have
made fifty jauntes in twenty minutes . . . . " " Amateur ! " Yang - Yeovil exclaimed ...
Yang - Yeovil in twenty m Why didn ' t “ Sheffield jaunted with Foyle . . . . Knocked
him stiff and disappeared . I went looking . All over . Took a chance , Must have
made fifty jauntes in twenty minutes . . . . " " Amateur ! " Yang - Yeovil exclaimed ...
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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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