books that could blow my mind
24th March 2017 | for Creatives | reading, books, Neil Gaiman, sci-fi, value the art, John Joseph Adams, Alfred Bester |
"Things took a more dramatic turn for me when I stumbled across The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester. ... I didn't know Bester was a legend in the field. Neil Gaiman wrote the introduction, but at the time I didn't know who he was, either. I just decided to try it ... and it just blew my mind. I think of The Stars My Destination as my origin story: reading that book made me want to find more books that could blow my mind like that."
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