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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... hundred yards long and one hundred feet broad , and mangled it into a skeleton on which was mounted the remains of cabins , holds , decks and bulkheads . Great rents in the hull were blazes of light on the sunside and frosty blotches of ...
... hundred yards long and one hundred feet broad , and mangled it into a skeleton on which was mounted the remains of cabins , holds , decks and bulkheads . Great rents in the hull were blazes of light on the sunside and frosty blotches of ...
Page 113
... hundred credits for this expensive and lovely creature ? One hundred , gentlemen ? She's all beauty and highly adaptable . Two ? Thank you . Three and a half ? Thank you . I'm bid - Five ? Eight ? Thank you . Any more bids for this ...
... hundred credits for this expensive and lovely creature ? One hundred , gentlemen ? She's all beauty and highly adaptable . Two ? Thank you . Three and a half ? Thank you . I'm bid - Five ? Eight ? Thank you . Any more bids for this ...
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... hundred thousand miles from ' Nomad ' . " " Six hundred thous- ? " " Nomad ' was too far out of the shipping lanes . They wanted you to drift where ships would pass . They took you six hundred thousand miles sunward and set you adrift ...
... hundred thousand miles from ' Nomad ' . " " Six hundred thous- ? " " Nomad ' was too far out of the shipping lanes . They wanted you to drift where ships would pass . They took you six hundred thousand miles sunward and set you adrift ...
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aboard Nomad accelerated Alfred Bester answered asked asteroid asteroid belt Baker began Bester Black Rod Blue Jaunte body Burning clan corridor Dagenham damned darkness disappeared door exclaimed explosion eyes face Forrest Four Mile Circus Fourmyle of Ceres Foyle turned Foyle's freaks gave the order girl going Gouffre Martel Gully Foyle head Heinlein hell hospital hundred Inner Planets jaunte stage Jisbella Joseph Kempsey laughed Lindsey Joyce listen locker looked Mare Nubium Mars Miss Robin Miss Wednesbury never novel Old St Olivia Presteign opened Outer Satellites Pat's pits PyrE Quatt roared Robin Wednesbury robot Saul Dagenham science fiction screamed Sheffield ship shook shouted Sigurd Skoptsy smiled space spacesuit Spanish Stairs Stars My Destination stopped talk tank tattooed telepath teleport tell There's thrust tiger tiger mask took trying voice Vorga waiting wall Weekender What's whispered Y'ang-Yeovil yawl Yeovil