The Stars My DestinationOfficially designated as lacking education, skills, merits or recommendations, Gully Foyle has managed to survive for 170 days in the airless purgatory of deep space after the wreck of his ship, and has escaped to Earth carrying a murderous grudge and secret that could change the course of history. |
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Page 12
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
...
Page 20
Hanging almost in the foreground was a dusty orange spot that was Jupiter ,
distinctly a planetary disc to the naked eye . ... Like all the outer planets beyond
the asteroid orbits , it was a frozen mass of methane and ammonia ; but its four
largest ...
Hanging almost in the foreground was a dusty orange spot that was Jupiter ,
distinctly a planetary disc to the naked eye . ... Like all the outer planets beyond
the asteroid orbits , it was a frozen mass of methane and ammonia ; but its four
largest ...
Page 196
NOW : Rigel in Orion , burning blue - white , five hundred and forty light years
from earth , ten thousand times more luminous than the sun , a cauldron of
energy circled by thirtyseven massive planets . . . Foyle hung , freezing and
suffocating in ...
NOW : Rigel in Orion , burning blue - white , five hundred and forty light years
from earth , ten thousand times more luminous than the sun , a cauldron of
energy circled by thirtyseven massive planets . . . Foyle hung , freezing and
suffocating in ...
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| Title | The Stars My Destination (The Gregg Press S.F. Series) The Gregg Press science fiction series |
| Author | Alfred Bester |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Gregg Press, 1975 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 9 Aug 2011 |
| ISBN | 0839823002, 9780839823001 |
| Length | 197 pages |
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