The edition is English, and the text from the dust jacket is:
Abandoned for 170 days in a wrecked spaceship in the middle of space, then ignored by a passing ship, Gully Foyle, the anti-hero of TIGER! TIGER! fights his way determinedly back to Earth — to seek revenge. Alfred Bester's foul but fascinating creation is, perhaps, the most memorable character in the whole of science fiction, and this tale of obsession and ultimate transcendence is acknowledged as one of the genre's finest.
When it was published in 1955, TIGER! TIGER! was clearly years ahead of its time and science fiction's New Wave, fifteen to twenty years later, hailed it as one of the most influential books to have appeared from within sf. As agelessly potent as a Jacobean tragedy and yet as modern as microchip software, TIGER! TIGER! is an essential and indispensable work in any science fiction collection.
The edition is English, and the text from the dust jacket is:
Abandoned for 170 days in a wrecked spaceship in the middle of space, then ignored by a passing ship, Gully Foyle, the anti-hero of TIGER! TIGER! fights his way determinedly back to Earth — to seek revenge. Alfred Bester's foul but fascinating creation is, perhaps, the most memorable character in the whole of science fiction, and this tale of obsession and ultimate transcendence is acknowledged as one of the genre's finest.
When it was published in 1955, TIGER! TIGER! was clearly years ahead of its time and science fiction's New Wave, fifteen to twenty years later, hailed it as one of the most influential books to have appeared from within sf. As agelessly potent as a Jacobean tragedy and yet as modern as microchip software, TIGER! TIGER! is an essential and indispensable work in any science fiction collection.