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Author: | Duchess of Malfi [ Sat Jul 25, 2009 7:02 pm ] |
Post subject: | Bester's Foyle ---> Donaldson's Angus? |
This thread has spoilers for both Donaldson's Gap Cycle and Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination - you are warned!!! I just finished up reading Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination for the first time. This book won a Hugo back in the 1950's, and is considered a classic of the science fiction genre. Wow, did I ever find it to be different. It follows the story of Gulliver Foyle, an amoral wreck of a man obssessed with revenge after he is left behind to die on a drifting mostly destroyed space ship. He is as much animal as man, symbolized by the tiger face tattoo - brutal and cunning, ill educated, and obsessed and violent. I think he is the direct inspiration for the Angus character in Stephen R. Donaldson's epic Gap Cycle - violent, stupid yet cunning, amoral, both murderers, both rapists, self-serving, and ugly as sin. And both undergo complex medical procedures to enhance their bodies in order to have superhuman abilities, must find a way to deal with their rape victims, eventually find a sense of right and wrong, and change the future of mankind. Has anyone else read both works? Thoughts, impressions? |
Author: | FarmUrTed [ Tue Nov 16, 2010 9:18 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: Bester's Foyle ---> Donaldson's Angus? |
They're pretty much the same guy, aren't they? I think that SRD mentioned somewhere in TGI that Foyle was a big influence. I really like Stars (read it a year or two ago); it was pretty weird for a book from the 50's, I thought. |
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