Estrelas, o meu destino

Estrelas, o meu destino Alfred Bester


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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. Gully Foyle – mentiroso, devasso, abutre, cancro ambulante. Obcecado pela vingança, ele é também o homem mais importante e valioso do século XXV... mas não sabe. A sua história é um dos grandes Clássicos da Ficção Científica.

The Stars My Destination (1956, 1957) by Alfred Bester -- 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.

[Goodreads Bill Kerwin Review] 'This book is my favorite classic science fiction novel. It is rich in incident, ambitious in conception, terse and unemotional in style, and fiercely Romantic in theme. Although it is a revenge tale based on The Count of Monte Cristo, its heart is perhaps closer to Frankenstein, but to a Frankenstein in which the monster is capable of self-redemption, of moving beyond isolation and bitterness toward an enlightened humanity. And all the things that are good about this novel are embodied in its hero—Caliban and Hamlet, Satan and Samson, Cain and Prometheus combined—the brute-genius Gully Foyle. (...) Foyle's search by Justice takes place in a future world dense with marvels and horrors: wide use of individually initiated teleportation (“jaunting”), heartless mega-corporations, occasional telepathy, vast underground prisons, a cargo cult with cool tattoos, a cathedral housing a circus, a mysterious substance ("PyrE") which may either consume or transform our world, and the fragmentation of time. This is a very entertaining novel, but also a thoughtful one. Its ending is ambitious and outrageous, exalting The Hero, Democracy and Freedom, and yet acknowledging the ignorance, darkness and oppression from which these gifts inevitably spring. I can give it no better praise than to say I think Shakespeare, Milton, Byron, and Mr. and Mrs. Shelley--and, yes, Dumas pere too--would have liked it a lot!

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