The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
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The Stars My Destination

Author: Alfred Bester

Narrator: Gerard Doyle

Unabridged: 8 hr 27 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/05/2017

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

Marooned in outer space after an attack on his ship, Nomad, Gulliver Foyle lives to obsessively pursue the crew of a rescue vessel that had intended to leave him to die.

When it comes to pop culture, Alfred Bester (1913–1987) is something of an unsung hero. He wrote radio scripts, screenplays, and comic books (in which capacity he created the original Green Lantern Oath). But Bester is best known for his science fiction novels, and The Stars My Destination may be his finest creation. With its sly potshotting at corporate skullduggery, The Stars My Destination seems utterly contemporary, and has maintained its status as an underground classic for over fifty years.


About Alfred Bester

Alfred Bester's passionate novels of worldly adventure, high intellect, and tremendous verve, The Stars My Destination and the Hugo Award-winning The Demolished Man, established Bester as a science fiction grandmaster, a reputation that was ratified by the Science Fiction Writers of America shortly before his death in 1987. Bester also was an acclaimed journalist for Holiday magazine, a reviewer for the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and even a writer for Superman.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bill on August 14, 2020

This is my favorite classic science fiction novel. It is rich in incident, ambitious in conception, terse and unemotional in style, and fiercely Romantic in theme. Although it is a revenge tale based on The Count of Monte Cristo, its heart is perhaps closer to Frankenstein, but to a Frankenstein in......more

Goodreads review by Vit on June 20, 2022

The golden age of science fiction… The Stars My Destination is a golden book of the golden age… This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living, and hard dying… but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and theft, pillage and rapine, culture and vice… but nobody admitted it. Th......more

Goodreads review by Terry on December 04, 2013

Gully Foyle is my name Terra is my nation Deep space is my dwelling place The stars my destination Sci-fi from its formative days is funny. Not funny ha-ha (not always anyway), but funny-weird…at least for me. I am often unable to get over the clunky writing and wispy plots despite the many cool ideas o......more

Goodreads review by Baba on October 31, 2022

SF Masterworks 5: On the face of it, the story of Cully Hoyle, a man with limited education, skills, merits etc, and his relentless quest for justice... did I say justice? I should have said revenge. But this book is much more than a Count of Monte Cristo in the 24th century. First published in 1956......more

Goodreads review by Kemper on July 16, 2018

You ever have a novel that you know is considered a classic of its genre yet you know absolutely nothing about it other than the title? This is one of those for me. I knew nothing about it other than the vague notion that it was an important sci-fi novel, but when it popped up as a deal on Audible I......more