The Stars My Destination

by Alfred Bester

Release: October 1956 to January 1957
Format: Novel
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Definite Time Travel
Original Language: English

Even before I found Asimov and Heinlein and other books with space ships on the spine in the local library, I stole this paperback from my dad’s shelf around 1964. As you can see from the picture, it had an irresistible cover (yes, that’s the stolen copy).

For the most part, Bestor’s story has jaunting (teleportation through space) with no time travel, which is enough to cause plenty of excitement for Gully Foyle (aka Geoffrey Fourmyle) as he jaunts around the war-torn solar system, seeking revenge on various space merchants. But at one climactic point, he also manages a jaunt through time.

And then he was tumbling down, down, down the space-time lines, back into the dreadful pit of Now.

DEBUT

The Stars My Destination, in Galaxy, October 1956 to January 1957.

VARIANTS

1 English variant

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