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The Stars My Destination

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Gully Foyle, Mechanic's Mate 3rd Class, is the only survivor on his drifting, wrecked spaceship.

When another space vessel, the Vorga, ignores his distress flares and sails by, Gully Foyle becomes a man obsessed with revenge.

He endures 170 days alone in deep space before finding refuge on the Sargasso Asteroid and then 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...

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Gollancz
0575073373 / 9780575073371
Hardback
813.54
18/10/2001
United Kingdom
English
Science fiction
x, 258p.
23 cm
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Reprint. Originally published: as Tiger tiger. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1956.
* A prestigious SF Masterworks hardback * A truly original, groundbreaking and hugely influential work * 'On everybody's list of the ten greatest sf novels' Robert Silverberg * 'Considered by many to be the greatest single sf novel' Samuel R. Delany * 'A dazzling, dizzying, multi-pronged assault on the senses that leaves you breathless and forever altered' James Lovegrove * 'One of the great sf novels of the 50s' Thomas M. Disch
* A prestigious SF Masterworks hardback * A truly original, groundbreaking and hugely influential work * 'On everybody's list of the ten greatest sf novels' Robert Silverberg * 'Considered by many to be the greatest single sf novel' Samuel R. Delany * 'A dazzling, dizzying, multi-pronged assault on the senses that leaves you breathless and forever altered' James Lovegrove * 'One of the great sf novels of the 50s' Thomas M. Disch FA Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)