[sac-forum] The Stars My Destination

This is slightly off topic but it is about a science fiction novel titled "The Stars My Destination" by Alfred Bester that is futuristic with space travel. The author has quite an imagination and has some interesting ideas. This was the first science fiction book I read and read it when I was about 14 years old. I recently reread it and discovered it really is very good, but at age 14 I had difficulty understanding some of it. I think the thing that separates it from many other science fiction books is that it embraces a concept that a person can evolve throughout their life, a concept which I feel is not quite embraced in our society, i.e., things are black and white. Once a criminal always a criminal, and if a criminal automatically a bad person. Forever.
Stan

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