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Las estrellas mi destino (1956)

de Alfred Bester

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Marooned in outer space after an attack on his ship, Nomad, Gulliver Foyle lives to obsessively pursue the crew of a rescue vessel that had intended to leave him to die. When it comes to pop culture, Alfred Bester (1913-1987) is something of an unsung hero. He wrote radio scripts, screenplays, and comic books (in which capacity he created the original Green Lantern Oath). But Bester is best known for his science fiction novels, and The Stars My Destination may be his finest creation. With its sly potshotting at corporate skullduggery, The Stars My Destination seems utterly contemporary, and has maintained its status as an underground classic for over fifty years.… (més)
  1. 160
    The Demolished Man de Alfred Bester (timspalding)
    timspalding: The rest of Bester isn't very good. These two are great.
  2. 70
    El Comte de Montecristo de Alexandre Dumas père (sturlington)
    sturlington: Inspired The Stars My Destination.
  3. 41
    Ubik de Philip K. Dick (falls)
  4. 31
    Consider Phlebas de Iain M. Banks (EatSleepChuck)
  5. 00
    Join de Steve Toutonghi (47degreesnorth)
  6. 00
    Camp Concentration de Thomas M. Disch (Usuari anònim)
  7. 00
    Fury de Henry Kuttner (NerdyBookingham)
  8. 04
    The Stars' Tennis Balls de Stephen Fry (pnorth)
    pnorth: Another book based on The Count of Monte Cristo but closer to the original than Bester's.
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Read this some years ago and can't really remember it, but my notes at the time say "didn't like it, didn't like the characters, especially the protagonist". ( )
  kitsune_reader | Nov 23, 2023 |
I intensely disliked main character, Gulliver Foyle, as an individual and really wasn't sure I wanted to keep reading, but about a third through I started thinking of him as a personification of the struggle of the lumpenproletariat to achieve class consciousness, and that seemed to work for me, though I wasn't sure if that was Bester's intention. Ultimately, it did work that way for me, and the story is, if imperfectly, a dramatised sci-fi setting of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed, the "cosmic" ending symbolising Foyle's awakening to his potential as a revolutionary liberationist figurehead. It was worth sticking with.

A couple of the names struck me as being symbolic, though I'm struggling to fully integrate them, so maybe I'm pareidolically seeing what's not there:

• Gulliver Foyle - Gullible Foil - Gullible Fool
• Presteign - Pristine - Prestige - Priest-Stain ( )
2 vota Michael.Rimmer | Nov 12, 2023 |
A dude is on a quest to destroy a spaceship for a stupid reason and apparently becomes superhuman because of this I guess. Not exactly a thrilling page turner in that sense. Full of "oh no something has happened re something I made up! But it's ok a page later because it's resolved with more stuff I made up" crap - these devices aren't used to produce drama, they're straight "situation described, dude's gonna die, oh no he isn't anymore" things. The bane of "hard sci-fi": the plot feeling stupid because something new can always be made up. Conveniently you can't teleport if you don't know where you are (I think?) even though that doesn't really make sense and isn't consistent.

Teleportation is accomplished in several instances - eg in the star chamber - where people can't possibly know exactly where they are. Yet somehow a hospital which everyone knows the location of and the criminal underworld has mapped out can't be teleported out of because it's *dark*? Seriously? It also feels stupid that they don't mention the issue of the planet moving in space at all - not important to plot but a weird omission for this kind of sci-fi. Someone brings up the problem of telefragging on the platforms EVERYONE uses to teleport between but there's no reason given for why it doesn't happen (people materialising in other people). Rich people apparently use normal transport instead of teleporting, which is ass-backward: in modern day society rich people use faster transport, and here the difference is an order of magnitude greater, making rich people waste ridiculous amounts of time.

A few reviews say the main character is unlikable, but it's not even that - he's just a void of character. This is part of the point, but that doesn't make it any more enjoyable to follow along. In general the characters are super weak - I don't expect much from sci-fi but the first love interest's relation to the main character is completely incoherent. She wants to get a tattoo off his face and then refuses to pay 1000 more for anasthetic because she wants him to feel pain??? The book offers no explanation. I can't think of one.

In summary, fails as a character piece, an exploration of teleportation and as a page-turning plot-focused pulp novel. Rubbish. ( )
  tombomp | Oct 31, 2023 |
Whichever top science fiction book list I found this on is now dead to me. ( )
1 vota emmby | Oct 4, 2023 |
A great read, definitely a classic. Not sure that I really bought the main character's rapid self-transformation from clueless idiot into Batman, but it was still a non-stop flurry of ideas. The last couple of chapters are fairly mind-bending and kind of blur past, but this is certainly worth any science fiction fan's time. ( )
  ropable | Aug 20, 2023 |
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Bester, Alfredautor primaritotes les edicionsconfirmat
Adams, MarcAutor de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Aldridge, AlanAutor de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Bacon, C.W.Autor de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Bing, JonEpílegautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Bringsværd, Tor ÅgeEpílegautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Chesterman, AdrianAutor de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Dahl, Tor EdvinTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Doyle, GerardNarradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Gaiman, NeilIntroduccióautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Gaughan, JackIl·lustradorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Giancola, DonatoAutor de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Horen, MichaelAutor de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Moore, ChrisAutor de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Powers, Richard M.Autor de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Sleight, GrahamIntroduccióautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
Stege, GiselaTraductorautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
White, TimAutor de la cobertaautor secundarialgunes edicionsconfirmat
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Tiger! Tiger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame they fearful symmetry?
~ Blake
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This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure rich living and hard dying . . . but nobody thought so.
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He was one hundred and seventy days dying and not yet dead.
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He was Gully Foyle, the oiler, wiper, bunkerman; too easy for trouble, too slow for fun, too empty for friendship, too lazy for love.
"Vorga, I kill you filthy."
It was an age of freaks, monsters, and grotesques. All the world was misshapen in marvelous and malevolent ways.
Gully Foyle is my name
And Terra is my nation.
Deep space is my dwelling place,
The stars my destination.
The man who upsets the morphology of society is a cancer. The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal. But there are chain reactions. Purging yourself with punishment isn't enough. Everything's got to be set right.
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Bester's original title, first published in the UK on 14th June 1956, was Tiger! Tiger! (a reference to the Blake poem, The Tyger). In the USA, it was first serialised across several editions of Galaxy magazine as The Stars My Destination, starting in the October 1956 issue.
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Marooned in outer space after an attack on his ship, Nomad, Gulliver Foyle lives to obsessively pursue the crew of a rescue vessel that had intended to leave him to die. When it comes to pop culture, Alfred Bester (1913-1987) is something of an unsung hero. He wrote radio scripts, screenplays, and comic books (in which capacity he created the original Green Lantern Oath). But Bester is best known for his science fiction novels, and The Stars My Destination may be his finest creation. With its sly potshotting at corporate skullduggery, The Stars My Destination seems utterly contemporary, and has maintained its status as an underground classic for over fifty years.

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