The Stars My Destination The 1956 Serialized Novel Alfred Bester by Alfred Bester instant download after payment.

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THIS was a golden age, a time of high adventure, rich living, and hard
dying . . . but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and theft,
pillage and rapine, culture and vice . . . but nobody admitted it. This was an
age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks . . . but nobody loved it.
All the habitable worlds of the solar system were occupied. Three planets
and eight satellites and eleven million million people swarmed in one of the
most exciting ages ever known, yet minds still yearned for other times, as
always. The solar system seethed with activity . . . fighting, feeding, and
breeding, learning the new technologies that spewed forth almost before the
old had been mastered, girding itself for the first exploration of the far stars
in deep space; but—
“Where are the new frontiers?” the Romantics cried, unaware that the
frontier of the mind had opened in a laboratory on Callisto at the turn of the
twenty-fourth century. A researcher named Jaunte set fire to his bench and
himself (accidentally) and let out a yell for help with particular reference to a
fire extinguisher. Who so surprised as Jaunte and his colleagues when he
found himself standing alongside said extinguisher, seventy feet removed
from his lab bench.