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The Stars My Destination
- Narrated by: Gerard Doyle
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
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Summary
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 50 years.
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- David Aylesbury
- 08-03-23
Grab Tiger Tiger by the tail.
This book read in the context of the time it was written is all the more impressive. It has aged somewhat, certainly in the way we view women. Mostly it’s offers up fresh takes on its universe. The human based narrative and subsequent transformation of its thoroughly unlikeable central character is its real compelling element. Few books do this better.
And however simplistic the central premise that people suddenly find they can teleport if they really really want to enough is rather hard to swallow it remains a uniquely readable book.
Old science fiction fanboys like myself will enjoy the journey if they haven’t read this already. Enrich your library and buy this little flawed but glorious gem. It’s worth a gaze.
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- Garym213
- 01-10-23
Amazing book, original beyond any normal sci-fi
This is a truly remarkable book, it is engrossing and thought provoking. Rightfully regarded as one of the greatest sci-fi books ever written.
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- Addy
- 17-11-23
Top quality Sci-Fi
Plot, pacing, language, ideas, character, worldbuilding - it has it all. Engaging from the opening sentence. Really well performed. Head and shoulders above other ‘included’ books on audible that I’ve encountered (so far)
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- T.
- 30-12-21
Spending pennies you ...
One of the best sci-fi stories of all-time
The stars within. A yell to the wind. Blood the taste of my sin, stripes of my sin.Smoke is my grin. The stars within...Pigs you...The stars within.. Selling your glass beads, stamping pearls to the ground. Why you...The stars within, where is your destination? Pennies you...
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- Anonymous User
- 15-10-23
A wonderful adventure
Full of energy and imagination. Really enjoyed it. As always with the best stories of any genre, it’s a wonderful human story.
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- Georgi K.
- 06-09-23
Exciting, twisting adventure through space
Bester takes us on an adventure alongside Gully Foyle, dead set on a quest for blind, vicious revenge. We learn the rules of his strange and distant universe alongside his hurtling through space, we observe this antihero as he commits great evils and desperately seeks punishment and redemption for his own actions.
Well-worth a read!
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- Heledd42
- 04-07-22
A book that hates women
The narrator is great, the ideas in the book are great. But the intense unlikeability of the main character and the way he treats women from beginning to end - and which the listener is supposed to just accept - is too much.
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- Tony Lord
- 15-02-21
Genuine SciFi Classic
Cant believe how well this story has "stood the test of time".
I must have read it over 35 years ago and it just hasn't dated. A good story is a good story, whenever it was written.
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- Mr J Garner
- 27-02-20
Golden Age sci fi at its best.
A tale of revenge that becomes a tale of self improvement, growth and redemption. The growth of the main character and his drives throughout the book is enthralling.
The world building is simple but excellent. Change one thing, like give people the ability to teleport, and the world changes radically. This newfound faculty of the human race is central to most events in the story and is never overlooked.
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- Anonymous User
- 11-01-20
First Sci-fi book ever: Sci-fi, ESP and philosophy
Sci-fi and ESP. I'd heard they went together in the past, but first story i know about it.
I like the evolution of the a "class" society, where the lower class people and even their language have degraded, and such the leaders have taken it upon themself to be the religion. I also really like the ending, and how this ESP wad intergrated, labyrints to disorientate, people jaunting instead of going on an airplane.
Though it's clear that the book was written in 1950's, as it contains some... people who really had a different charecter and a matter capable of changing the face of warfare, like the atom bomb did.
And all this is just the world where the main charecter is dumped to slowly starve and be wrath incarnate.
But yeah, fascinating story which makes you punder, adequate worldbuilding, and my favorite robot malfunctioning to develop intelligence... which might be common there?
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