The Stars My Destination
by Alfred Bester
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Cyberpunk, Space Opera, and Science Fiction.
In this pulsequickening novel, Alfred Bester imagines a future in which people "jaunte" a thousand miles with a single thought, where the rich barricade themselves in labyrinths and protect themselves with radioactive hit men _x0097_ and where an inarticulate outcast is the most valuable and dangerous man alive. The Stars My Destination is a classic of ...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Cyberpunk, Space Opera, and Science Fiction.
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Alan Cooper
“@JamesSACorey As a callow youth, way back in the 1970s, I lived in London for awhile and discovered a book called Tiger, Tiger by Alfred Bester. It kinda rocked my world. The book was published in the USA as The Stars My Destination, and @JamesSACorey cite the book as influential to them. 5”
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