The Stars My Destination (S.F. MASTERWORKS): Alfred Bester

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Giannini, A.J.; Slaby, A.E.; Giannini, M.C. (1982). Handbook of Overdose and Detoxification Emergencies. New Hyde Park, NY: Medical Examination Publishing. p.164. ISBN 0-87488-182-X. Busch, Anita (February 27, 2015). "Paramount In Talks To Acquire Rights To Sci-Fi Classic 'The Stars My Destination' ". deadline.com . Retrieved March 1, 2015. In the mobile game Tokyo Afterschool Summoners, the lore of the character Nomad is based on the contents of the book, as well as the poem " The Tyger". It is the book of loving and hating… the story of surviving and avenging… the tale of finding riches and identity… The saga of chasing and being chased… Whitaker's Cumulative Book List: 62. 1956. {{ cite journal}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical ( link)

Bester also gets extra points for having written the silver age Green Lantern oath, a ditty almost as cool as the one quoted above about Gully Foyle.) I was planning on reading this book for years and i was disappointed after the first hour of reading which stayed till the endTekrar okunabilecek kitaplar listesine yazdım kitabı. Tam yıldız veremiyorum kitaba. Dilinden hoşlanmadığım için en başta. Her şey aniden oluyormuş gibi hissettiren bir dili var Bester'ın. Yorumlarda da bundan yakınmıştım... The novel was both widely criticized and praised when it first appeared, but now is appreciated as a classic work in its own right, and as a prescient forerunner of the cyberpunk literary genre. Despite being published over 60 years ago it doesn’t come across as that dated either. Alfred Bester did a lot of well thought out world building as to what this space faring society that has also mental powers like telepathy and the ability to teleport would be like. Some of the stuff he did here like a conflict between factions fighting for the resources of our solar system are still used today in sci-fi like The Expanse series, and the idea of powerful corporations being as much a force as government has been used countless times as well. The ending also seems like a leap forward to a kind of sci-fi that something like 2001 would do a decade later. It is a journey both physical and symbolic. When Gully has to take on an alias to remain in disguise, as his pseudonym of “Fourmyle of Ceres” he is witty, literate, well-spoken, a character light-years away from the near-monosyllabic survivor seen at the beginning of the book. Strange characters exist throughout, with even stranger relationships. He almost meets his match in a woman who is his equal (again, unusual for the 1950’s!) as he attempts to take on enigmatic business leaders in his search for the crew of the spaceship Vorga who left him. The name of Charles Fort Jaunte, who discovers teleportation, derives from Charles Fort, a writer principally of nonfiction, who coined the term "teleportation". [ citation needed]

I used to be almost exclusively a SF and fantasy reader. One of the pleasures of expanding my literary horizons is that having now read many more classics and literary works than I used to, I recognize references even in my favorite genre novels. So I was a third of the way through the book when I realized that Bester was totally writing a SF version of The Count of Monte Cristo.

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World Building - Excellent. I liked the description of the different races/planets. I liked how society was described (i.e. the different 'houses' dressing according to the year their ancestors changed history). I loved everything that happened in Gouffre Martel. I would have liked the outlawing of religions to be discussed a little more. There were hints in conversations about things that I would have preferred to have read about over Gully's story like WWIII. And, of course, jaunting was a great idea. Brilliant actually. What happens at the end with Gully and the jaunting through space/ Kelleghan, Fiona (November 1994). "Hell's My Destination: Imprisonment in the Works of Alfred Bester". Science Fiction Studies. 21, part 3 (64) . Retrieved May 14, 2011. A man is a member of society first, and an individual second. You must go along with society, whether it chooses destruction or not. Greek) Alfred Bester was an American science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor and scripter for comic strips and comic books.

Dark Messiah: Foyle is one of these at the end. He spreads the MacGuffin all over the world, which is Made of Explodium and can be really easily set off. He gives people the chance not to mess up, but if Humans Are Bastards, the world will go kaboom. Cyberpunk: Although published in 1956, some three decades before Cyberpunk emerged, the book has many examples of the tropes common in cyberpunk—the antihero, the mysterious female thief, the intrigue of the multinational companies, the scientific McGuffin and cybernetically boosted reflexes most obvious amongst them. This is not entirely a coincidence: cyberpunk pioneer William Gibson has called The Stars My Destination his favourite novel. You're all freaks, sir. But you always have been freaks. Life is a freak. That's its hope and glory.' The end of the novel doesn’t quite hold the potential of the first part, although it is an interesting journey along the way.Cyborg: Foyle spends a whole lot of money to get augmented into "... an extraordinary fighting machine" with transistors and transformers buried in muscle and bone. Aristocrats Are Evil: The Presteigns, one of the new breed of corporate nobility, are quite fond of saying that they love blood and money. Displaying all variants and translations • Do not display translations• Do not display variants or translations Tiger! Tiger! was written in 1956 so how Alfred Bester could predict both the psychedelic trippiness of the 60s and the extreme facial tattooing of the 90s is beyond me. If you read it closely there's also a reference to Tip-Ex, which wouldn't be invented until 1959, and mouse pads, which didn't come in until years later. What a guy. Alfred Bester's The Stars my Destination is classic sci-fi from the 1950's that stands the test of time. Set far into the future, the 25th century, humans have settled the solar system out to Neptune. Along the way, jaunting was discovered which involves personal teleportation over distances up to 1000 miles. The resulting impact on society and the economy results in conflict between the inner and outer system. Gully Foyle is a nondescript mechanic 3rd class on a freighter that is the sole survivor of some unknown disaster. When his emergency beacon is ignored, he is driven by revenge to hunt down the perpetrators. At the same time, Foyle is pursued by many for the secrets the freighter was carrying of which he is unaware.