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Original Title:	Tiger! Tiger!
ISBN:	0679767800 (ISBN13: 9780679767800)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Gulliver Foyle, Jisbella McQueen, Saul Dagenham, Presteign, Sam Quatt, Regis Sheffield, Robin Wednesbury
Literary Awards:	Prometheus Hall of Fame Award (1988)

The Stars My Destination

Alfred Bester

Paperback | Pages: 258 pages

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Title	:	The Stars My Destination
Author	:	Alfred Bester
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 258 pages
Published	:	July 2nd 1996 by Vintage (first published 1955)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Fiction. Classics. Science Fiction Fantasy. Cyberpunk. Fantasy. Novels

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In 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.
The Stars My Destination is a classic of technological prophecy and timeless narrative enchantment by an acknowledged master of science fiction.

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Gully Foyle is my nameTerra is my nationDeep space is my dwelling placeThe stars my destinationSci-fi from its formative days is funny. Not funny ha-ha (not always anyway), but funny-weirdat least for me. I am often unable to get over the clunky writing and wispy plots despite the many cool ideas on display. Sometimes even a premise as cool as a galaxy-spanning empire held together by the prods and pokes of a few cognoscenti using an arcane sociological science still cant make a plodding plot

Re-Read 6/5/17:Reading this is like being on fire, snarling like a Tyger, and being the dumb brute and the intellectual mastermind at the same time. Reading it a second time is like chumming up with a psychopath and learning that he's really the good guy because everyone else is just as crazy as him.And then, what else can we expect when practically everyone can Jaunte (teleport) practically anywhere they want? Society is radically changed in the next five hundred years, and it's not just the

Gully Foyle, lowest of the low, lazy, crude, murderer, rapist, ignorant brute of a man, hired as a low grade mechanic on the spaceship Nomad. The only survivor of a brutal attack, he scavenged food and oxygen for six months, hiding away in a locker until he sees the spaceship Vorga approach. Finally rescue is at hand, but No, the ship slows, takes a look and then speeds off. Incensed with fury, Foyle swears revenge on the crew of the Vorga. Pulling himself up by his bootstraps he plans his

I first read this book decades ago under the title of Tiger! Tiger! (British edition). I just reread it recently for the purposes of writing this review. Fortunately I have memory like a sieve so I enjoy this reread just as much as the first time.The Stars My Destination is one of the few sf books that is included in almost every all-time best sf books I have ever seen, and I have seen many. If I see such a list without this book I will probably dismiss it.The story is centered upon Gully

"The jaunte rules supreme..."I read this book more than 20 years ago and finally I got to read it again (It's been for some time on my TBR Pile of long-ago-SF-Books...)There's many SF classics to be read, and I have read most of them.Often, when reading books from the "good old days", the datedness of the tale, writing, and characters is very obvious to the modern eye. Not so with this book.SF is a difficult and transient literature at the best of times. It claims to treat of the future. But

"You pigs, you. You rut like pigs, is all. You got the most in you, and you use the least. You hear me, you? Got a million in you and spend pennies. Got a genius in you and think crazies. Got a heart in you and feel empties. All a you. Every you.... I challenge you, me. Die or live and be great. Blow yourselves to Christ gone or come and find me, Gully Foyle, and I make you men. I make you great. I give you the stars."Behold, the birth of cyberpunk. Powerful corporate clans? Check. Cybernetic

Fast and furious and blackly comedic similiar to early Vonnegut or Jack Vance mixed with the bitter surrealism of Finney's "Circus of Doctor Lao", this book predicted and influenced trends like the British New Wave,cyberpunk, and new space opera, but retains an oddball flavor of its own. Satirizing 50's anxieties like the red scare and the threat of nuclear annihilation(and unhindered corporate greed and warmongering)and featuring a psychopathic protagonist(loose in world that makes him look