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Used Book in Good Condition
Specs:
Height | 7.95 Inches |
Length | 5.1 Inches |
Number of items | 1 |
Release date | July 1996 |
Weight | 0.50044933474 Pounds |
Width | 0.6 Inches |
The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester.
A modern take on the Count of Monte Christo. From Amazon:
> Gully Foyle, Mechanic's Mate 3rd Class. EDUCATION: none SKILLS: none MERITS: none RECOMMENDATIONS: none That'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.
If you want a dead tree edition amazon has some for that price.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0679767800/ref=tmm_pap_used_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=used
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Damn, just one?!? I don't think I can cut it down to less than three, and even that list would change year by year.
The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester
Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
Orphans of Chaos, John C. Wright
(And sorry for the Amazon links, I really freakin' hate Amazon but don't know of a better/more convenient link to offer people.)(Um, if anyone has a better kind of link to provide, I'd love to hear it, thanks.)
The Stars My Destination This is one of the few books I can read over and over and still get goose bumps over. Honestly probably one of my top three books of all time. Hope you all enjoy the book as much as I have.
It's fun to describe to "Classics-snobs", as I call them, an old sci-fi book and how it effected my personal life, while stripping all of the sci-fi elements out of my explanation, until they ask me the name again so that they can write it down. My most recent example was The Stars My Destination By Alfred Bester, which I'd actually read in a Barnes and Noble in an afternoon. Not, as I'd told the person, in an open square near the Duomo in Florence(Which would have been a complete waste of my time in Italy).
Alfred Bester, an early sci-fi author who was very influential but perhaps overlooked because he mixed in some supernatural with his sci-fi. The Stars My Destination.
Bruce Sterling, whose career has been overshadowed by and his contributions to the genre largely attributed to William Gibson or even Neal Stephenson. Schizmatrix Plus.