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The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester EPUB



“Science fiction has only produced a few works of actual genius, and this is one of them”—Joe Haldeman



“Bester at the peak of his powers is, quite simply, unbeatable” —James Lovegrove



"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. This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks…but nobody loved it."



A future in which people "jaunt" a thousand miles with a single thought, where the rich barricade themselves in labyrinths and protect themselves with radioactive hitmen—and where an inarticulate outcast is the most valuable and dangerous man alive.



In that world we find Gully Foyle, ne'er do well space bum, marooned in a dead and abandoned spaceship, who sees his rescuer come ... and then go.  And decides to do something about it.



It starts: "He was one hundred and seventy days dying and not yet dead" and gets better from there.



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