Estrelas -- O Meu Destino (Stars Are My Destination /1956, 1957 UK Revised Edition as Tiger! Tiger!). '-' Era uma idade de ouro, uma época de grandes aventuras, de desafios constantes e de morte violenta… Mas ninguém pensava assim. Era um futuro de fortunas e de roubos, de pilhagens e de saques, de cultura e de vício… mas ninguém o admitia. Era um século de extremos, com todo o fascínio da extravagância e da excentricidade… mas ninguém o amava. É contra este pano de fundo agitado e conturbado do século XXV que começa a saga da vingança de Gulliver Foyle. Um sobrevivente obcecado pela vingança, ele é também o homem mais precioso e importante do século XXV, mas não o sabe. A sua história é um dos clássicos da Ficção Científica. "Gully Foyle os my name And Terra is my nation. Deep space is my dwelling place, The stars my destination". --- Alfred Bester, The Stars My Destination. [Wikipedia] "The Stars, My Destination" is a science fiction novel by Alfred Bester. Originally serialized in Galaxy magazine in four parts beginning with the October 1956 issue, it first appeared in book form in the United Kingdom as Tiger! Tiger! (1957) – after William Blake's poem "The Tyger", the first verse of which is printed as the first page of the novel – and the book remains widely known under that title in markets where this edition was circulated. A working title for the novel was Hell's My Destination, and it was also associated with the name The Burning Spear -- Literary Awards: Prometheus Hall of Fame Award '-- ' In the 25th century, "jaunting" — personal teleportation — has so upset the social and economic balance that the Inner Planets are at war with the Outer Satellites. Gully Foyle of the Presteign-owned merchant spaceship Nomad — an uneducated, unskilled, unambitious man whose life is at a dead end — is marooned in space when the ship is attacked and he alone survives. After six months of his waiting for rescue (...)'.' In this pulse-quickening 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 - and where an inarticulate outcast is the most valuable and dangerous man alive. The Stars My Destination is a classic of technological prophecy and timeless narrative enchantment by an acknowledged master of science fiction. Alfred Bester (1913–1987) was an American science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor and scripter for comic strips and comic books. Though successful in all these fields, he is best remembered for his science fiction, including The Demolished Man, winner of the inaugural Hugo Award in 1953, a story about murder in a future society where the police are telepathic...
Estrelas - O Meu Destino (Ficção Científica #81) -
Alfred Bester
Europa-América
1984
180 páginas
6h 0m
ISBN-13: 9789721008281
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