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The Stars My Destination is a classic of technological prophecy and timeless narrative enchantment by an acknowledged master of science fiction.
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- Alfred Bester
Sep 17, 2022 · Overall The Stars My Destination shows that Bester was in the 1950’s a supernova of talent, and this alongside The Demolished Man, are his pinnacles of excellence. Destination was Bester’s last science fiction novel for 19 years.
- Mark Yon
Dec 28, 2012 · The Stars My Destination is one of the more memorable books I’ve read in recent years, as well as one of my favorites. Written by Hugo winner Alfred Bester in the mid-1950s, the short novel, stays away from the technobabble and neologisms that might date it and as a result it retains potency decades after publication.
The Stars My Destination holds on to its coveted top ten rating with its dazzling mixture of tantalizing plot, multi-faceted cast of characters, social commentary, and chilling speculation. Thousands of science fiction stories have been published since this amazing novel appeared in 1956.
The Stars My Destination is fierce, cynical, lightning-paced, complex, philosophical, darkly humorous, and frankly doesn’t feel dated at all. It’s more exciting as cyberpunk than William Gibson, not as self-congratulatory as Iain M. Banks ’ CULTURE novels, and takes a far more skeptical of the future than Robert Heinlein ’s SF novels.
Jul 17, 2020 · The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester is a fast paces sci-fiction novel, with action and loads of blood. Read the detailed review of the book.
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The Stars My Destination is a science fiction novel by American writer Alfred Bester. Its first publication was in book form in June 1956 in the United Kingdom, where it was titled Tiger! Tiger!, named after William Blake 's 1794 poem "The Tyger", the first verse of which is printed as the first page of the novel. [3] .
