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SUMMARY:THE STARS MY DESTINATION - Alfred Bester - Mr Presidents 1st Annual
  Book Choice
DESCRIPTION:\n\nIt's with great pleasure that we present our first annual "
 Mr President's Book Choice" by our President Mr Iain M. Banks. Iain's choi
 ce for 2012 is The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester\, or as Iain call
 s it 'Tiger\, Tiger' which is it's original title.\n\nYou've probably seen
  The Stars My Destination included in every science fiction top ten list p
 ublished. Forty-five years have passed since it was first published and it
 's yet to be knocked out of the masters' circle. That's a pretty impressiv
 e statement. Bester's classic has the stuff to back it up.\n\nMany thanks 
 to Iain for this excellent selection.\n\nPLEASE NOTE: As we will only have
  one meeting in December\, due to the Xmas holiday\, it will be extra larg
 e meeting with two or three discussion groups rather then one. IMPORTANT: 
 Iain has selected this months book in his capacity as book club President 
 and is not scheduled to be make an appearance.\n\nGully Foyle\, Mechanic's
  Mate 3rd Class.\nEDUCATION: none\nSKILLS: none\nMERITS: none\nRECOMMENDAT
 IONS: none\n\nThat's the official verdict on Gully Foyle\, unskilled space
  crewman. But right now he is the only survivor on his drifting\, wrecked 
 spaceship\, and when another space vessel\, the Vorga\, ignores his distre
 ss flares and sails by\, Gully becomes obsessed with revenge. He endures 1
 70 days alone in deep space before finding refuge on the Sargasso Asteroid
  and returning to Earth to track down the crew and owners of the Vorga. Bu
 t\, as he works out his murderous grudge\, Gully Foyle also uncovers a sec
 ret of momentous proportions . . .\n\n\n
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