The Stars My Destination (S.F. MASTERWORKS) [Idioma Inglés]: Alfred Bester - Softcover

Bester, Alfred

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0575094192 ISBN 13: 9780575094192

Verlag: Gateway, 2010

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Gully Foyle, Mechanic's Mate 3rd Class.EDUCATION: noneSKILLS: none MERITS: noneRECOMMENDATIONS: noneThat's the official verdict on Gully Foyle, unskilled space crewman.But right now he is the only survivor on his drifting, wrecked spaceship, and when another space vessel - the Vorga - ignores his distress flares and sails by, Gully becomes obsessed with revenge. He endures 170 days alone in deep space before finding refuge on the Sargasso Asteroid and returning to Earth to track down the crew and owners of the Vorga. But, as he works out his murderous grudge, Gully Foyle also uncovers a secret of momentous proportions ...

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Críticas:

you can see seeds of science fiction's next half century sprinkled throughout its pacy. compulsive narrative (SFX)

Biografía del autor:

Alfred Bester (1913-1987) 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 in the 1950s with THE DEMOLISHED MAN, THE STARS MY DESTINATION and his extraordinary short stories. He blazed a trail for the SF New Wave of the 1960s and the cyberpunk writers of the 1980s.

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• Verlag: Gateway
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0575094192
• ISBN 13: 9780575094192
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256