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The Stars My Destination - Couverture souple

Bester, A.

 
9780679767800: The Stars My Destination
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0679767800 ISBN 13 : 9780679767800
Editeur : Alfred A Knopf, 1996

Synopsis

Book by Alfred Bester

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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. 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 ...

Biographie de l'auteur

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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Éditeur
Alfred A Knopf
Date d'édition
1996
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0679767800
ISBN 13 
9780679767800
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
258
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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