The Stars My Destination in Around the Year in 52 Books

Mar 21, 2016 Jacqie rated it it was ok

Well, it's a classic from the Golden Age of science fiction. That means, unfortunately, that it's extremely problematic when it comes to female characters, all of whom are beautiful, alternately furious and shrill or melting with love for our hero, and not recognizably human in any way. There's also the rape victim who is intimidated into helping the hero ( who was her rapist) and ends up having a soft spot for the guy. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh.

Other than that, it's a surprisingly dark book for the 50's. T ...more

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Jul 08, 2014 John Warner rated it liked it

Shelves: science-fiction

It is five hundred years in the future. Many of the planets and moons within our solar system have been terraformed and are inhabited. Megacorporations have replaced governments and territorial wars have continued. Gully Foyle, a laborer for the Presteign Corporation, a man with no particular motivation excepting the will to survive at that particular moment. Because, for the last one hundred seventy days he has been surviving in a tool locker in the mangled wrecked Nomad, adrift between Mars an ...more

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Mar 27, 2008 martha rated it liked it

Shelves: kindle, speculative-fiction, year-2012

Well, then. I can see why this is a classic (great scifi ideas, especially given it was written as far back as the '50s, which I didn't realize while reading). But it was also alternately difficult or unpleasant to follow at times. And super rapey. Not my fav, though I did enjoy parts.

Although! There's a Lady Shrapnel here, which Connie Willis HAS to have stolen her from, but the internet tells me no one else has thought so?? I'll choose to believe it's a private joke between me and Connie. ...more

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