The Stars My Destination (S.F. MASTERWORKS)

Bester, Alfred

ISBN 10: 1857988140 / ISBN 13: 9781857988147

Published by Gollancz, 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Stars My Destination (S.F. MASTERWORKS)
• Publisher: Gollancz
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1857988140
• ISBN 13: 9781857988147
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Such is the official verdict on Gully Foyle, unskilled space crewman. But Gully has managed to survive for 170 days in the airless purgatory of deep space after the wreck of his ship, and has escaped to Earth carrying a murderous grudge and a secret that could change the course of history.

The novel which in large part inspired both the cyberpunk movement of the 1980s and the science fiction New Wave of the 1960s, THE STARS MY DESTINATION has an unrivalled claim to be the most influential sf book of all time.

About the Author

Alfred Bester (1913-87) was born in New York and educated at the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia. He was a scriptwriter and journalist by profession but he set the science fiction world alight with The Demolished Man and The Stars My Destination and his extraordinary short stories in the 1950s, and blazed a trail for the sf New Wave of the 1960s and the cyberpunk writers of the 1980s.